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teate inflorescenses, and the presence of but two stamens. In Indian mate- 
rial the other two stamens are reduced to staminodes, which Clarke indicates 
as “sometimes nearly obsolete.” In the Chinese specimens the staminodes 
are entirely obsolete. 
HYGROPHILA R. Brown 
* WYGROPHILA MEGALANTHA sp. nov. 
Herbacea, erecta, ramosa, glabra, ramis 4-angulatis, haud 
lineolatis ; foliis anguste oblongo-obovatis ad oblanceolatis, apice 
obtusis vel rotundatis, basi attenuatis, integris, obscure lineo- 
latis, 4 ad 7 cm longis, 8 ad 15 mm latis, nervis utrique 5 vel 
6, adscendentibus, obscuris; floribus paucis, in quaque axilla 1 
ad 3, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis, obtusis, 12 mm longis, brac- 
teolis anguste oblongis, obtusis, 6 mm longis; calycibus tubo cir- 
citer 7 mm longo, laciniis anguste lineari-lanceolatis, tenuiter 
subcaudato-acuminatis, parcissime breviter hirsutis, tubo ae- 
quantibus; corolla 2.5 em longa, extus parcissime breviter hir- 
suta, tubo infra cylindrico, supra inflato; labium superium 
retusum, inferius breviter 3-lobatum. 
Honam Island, near Canton, Merrill 10014, October 26, 1916, in muddy 
fallow land subject to overflow by the tide, the flowers purplish-blue. 
A species well characterized by its very few, unusually large flowers, 
and its oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, glabrous leaves. Its alliance seems 
to be with the form described by Nees as Hygrophila obovata, which Clarke 
has reduced to Hygrophila quadrivalvis Nees. It cannot possibly be re- 
ferred to any form of Hygrophila salicifolia (Vahl) Nees (H. angustifolia 
R. Br.), or H. quadrivalvis Nees as these species are described. 
COMPOSITAE 
AINSLIAEA de Candolle 
-AINSLIAEA PARVIFOLIA sp. nov. § Scaposae. 
Herba erecta, caulis infra foliis plus minusve lanuginosis, su- 
pra foliis glabris, foliis junioribus subtus parce lanuginosis; 
foliis rosulatis, longe petiolatis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, sub- 
coriaceis, 2.5 ad 4 cm longis, 1.2 ad 2 cm latis, supra glabris, 
apice acutis apiculatisque, basi cuneatis, leviter decurrentibus, 
margine obscure crenulatis in sinibus dentibus prominentibus 
calloso-apiculatis circiter 1 mm longis ornatis, nervis utrinque 
2 vel 3, distantibus, prominentibus, curvato-adscendentibus, anas- 
tomosantibus, in siccitate brunneis; petiolis 3 ad 4 mm longis, 
glabris, vel parce lanuginosis, sursum angustissime alatis; in- 
florescentiis simplicibus, glabris, racemosis; capitulis breviter 
pedicellatis, numerosis, patulis vel adscendentibus, solitariis, cir- 
citer 15 mm longis, 3-floris, pedicellis usque ad 3 mm longis 
bracteis numerosis ovatis obtusis imbricatis 0.5 ad 1 mm longis 
obtectis ; squamulis valde inaequalibus, omnibus glabris, exterio- 
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