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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1916 



RUELLIA Linnaeus 



RUELLIA FLAGELLIFORMIS Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 95, nomen 

 nudum, PL Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 47. 



Amboina, Paso, Rel. Robins. 1790, October 31, 1913, near the seashore. 



A species originally and very imperfectly described from specimens 

 originating in the Moluccas, possibly in Amboina. The excellent specimens 

 here referred to Roxburgh's species agree perfectly with the description so 

 far as it goes, and unquestionably represent it. 



HYPOESTES R. Brown 



HYPOESTES LAXIFLORA Nees in DC. Prodr. 11 (1857) 508. 



Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1789, September 25, 1913, in Rumphius's garden, 

 town of Amboina, locally known as bunga burong. 



Java and the Philippines to tropical Australia. Closely allied to Hypo- 

 estes malaccensis Wight, and H. decaisneana Nees. The Amboina specimen 

 is a close match for Philippine material, Cuming 1019, cited by Nees in the 

 original description of Hypoestes laxiflora Nees. 



ERANTHEMUM Linnaeus 

 ERANTHEMUM sp. 



Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1791, September 25, 1913, a cultivated shrub, 

 collected in the town of Amboina. 



PERISTROPHE Nees 

 PERISTROPHE COMMUTATA Nees in DC. Prodr. 11 (1857) 497. 

 Justicia bivalvis Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 1 (1832) 42, non Linn. 

 Amboina, Rel. Robins. 2542, July 22, 1913, along the river bank in the 

 vicinity of the town of Amboina, locally known as daun mariaya. 



Peristrophe commutata Nees was based wholly on Roxburgh's description 

 of Justicia bivalvis, the latter being based on specimens from the Moluccas, 

 in all probability from Amboina. The description, although short and very 

 incomplete, applies unmistakably to the specimen cited above, which is 

 distinguished from Peristrophe bivalvis (Linn.) Merr. (P. tinctoria Nees) 

 by its much narrower, lanceolate leaves, and its much narrower, linear- 

 lanceolate bracts. 



LEPIDAGATHIS Willdenow 



LEPIDAGATHIS ROBINSONII sp. nov. 



Herba erecta, simplex vel parce ramosa, circiter 70 cm alta, 

 inflorescentiis leviter ciliatis exceptis glabra; foliis submem- 

 branaceis, in siccitate olivaceis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque 

 ad 14 cm longis, leviter undulatis, acuminatis, basi subabrupte 

 decurrento-acuminatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; spicis termina- 

 libus, brevibus, solitariis vel trims, circiter 2 cm longis, in sicci- 

 tate brunneis, bracteis bracteolisque subsimilis, circiter 10 mm 

 longis, tenuiter acutissime acuminatis, parce ciliatis ; calycis seg- 

 ments 5, omnibus liberis, valde inaequimagnis, superioribus et 

 inferioribus circiter 9 mm longis, lateralibus lineari-lanceolatis, 

 6 ad 7 mm longis, leviter ciliatis. 



