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cm long, 3 to 5 cm ‘wide, pale brownish when dry, subequally 
narrowed to the somewhat acuminate apex and the decurrent 
base; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, rather 
prominent on the lower surface, the reticulation obscure; 
petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers crowded in a dense, subglo- 
bose, sessile or very shortly peduncled, terminal inflorescence 
about 2 em in diameter. Involucral bracts 4 subtending each 
flower, the outer two lanceolate, acuminate, 12 to 13 mm long, 
very densely ciliate in the upper two-thirds with white, 2 mm 
long, spreading hairs, the lower third glabrous or only slightly 
pubescent, the inner two bracts similar to the outer ones but 
shorter and ciliate only on the median portion of the back. 
Calyx pubescent, 8 mm long, the lobes linear-lanceolate, acumin- 
ate, equaling the tube. 
Luzon, Zambales Province, Santa Maria, Bur. Sci. 4756 Ramos, 
December, 1907. In open places at low altitudes. 
A species very strongly characterized by its dense, subcapitate 
inflorescences, and more especially by its densely and very con- 
spicuously ciliate involucral bracts. Its alliance is with Hy- 
poestes subcapitata C. B. Clarke, from which it. is readily 
distinguished by its larger, more numerously nerved leaves, its 
inflorescence and involucre characters, and by being glabrous 
throughout except for the inflorescences. 
HEMIGRAPHIS Nees 
HEMIGRAPHIS LANCEOLATA sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, ramosa, 50 ad 70 cm alta, partibus junioribus 
perspicue hirsutis; foliis lanceolatis, chartaceis, in siccitate fra- 
-gilis, 6 ad 14 cm longis, caudato-acuminatis, basi acutis, margine 
undulato-crenatis, glabris, nervis utrinque 4 ad 8; spicis ter- 
minalibus axillaribusque, usque ad 7 cm longis, bracteis foliaceis, 
numerosis, lanceolatis, 1.5 ad 2 em longis, utrinque hirsutis, 
acuminatis, basi acutis; calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, 
caudato-acuminatis, hirsutis, 10 mm longis; corolla alba, 1.6 cm 
longa, sursum pubescens, lobis 4 mm longis; filamentis longio- 
ribus villosis, brevioribus glabris; capsulis hirsutis, 6 ad 7 mm 
longis. 
An erect, branched herb, 50 to 70 cm high, the younger parts 
rather conspicuously hirsute with stiff, white hairs, the stems 
and branches dark-colored when dry, glabrous or very slightly 
pubescent, usually sulcate. Leaves lanceolate, chartaceous, 
brittle when dry, 6 to 14 cm long, 1 to 3 cm wide, olivaceous, 
