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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1918 



or greenish-olivaceous, slightly shining, the lower surface some- 

 what paler than the upper, the upper surface with distinct 

 cystoliths and scattered, stiff white hairs, the lower surface 

 more prominently hirsute than the upper, acute at both ends, 

 or the apex somewhat obtuse, margins distinctly crenate ; lateral 

 nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, slender, obscure; pe- 

 tioles hirsute, 5 to 8 mm long. Spikes terminal, solitary, 1 

 to 2 cm long, including the few flowers. Bracts somewhat im- 

 bricate, few, foliaceous, hirsute, oblong, obtuse, 8 to 14 

 mm long, olivaceous; bracteoles filiform, hirsute, about 3 mm 

 long. Calyx tube 2 mm long, the lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, 

 slenderly acuminate, prominently ciliate, one about 6 mm long, 

 the other four 4 mm long. Corolla slightly pubescent externally, 

 17 mm long. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Bangui, Bur. Sci. 275^3 Ramos, March 9, 

 1917, along streams in forests at low altitudes. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Hemigraphis hirsutissima 

 Merr., from which it differs in its strictly erect stems; longer leaves and 

 petioles; the leaves not pustulate on the upper surface, but with distinct 

 cystoliths; its few-flowered spikes; and distinctly larger flowers. 



JUSTICIA Linnaeus 



JUSTICIA OISPAR sp. nov. § Calophanoides. 



Planta ut videtur erecta, suffruticosa, ramosa, subglabra, 

 ramis ramulisque teretibus ; f oliis in paribus valde inaequalibus, 

 oblongo-ovatis, firmiter chartaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel 

 acuminatis, majoribus usque ad 6 cm longis, minoribus 1 ad 2 

 cm longis, utrinque cystolithis instructis; floribus axillaribus, 

 sessilibus, solitariis vel binis, 1.2 cm longis, bracteis (foliis 

 floralibus) oblongo-spatulatis, 6 mm longis; calycibus segmentis 

 5, lanceolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, minute adpresse hispidis. 



Apparently erect, much branched, suffrutescent or the stems 

 distinctly woody, the branches and branchlets slender, terete, 

 the branches glabrous, the branchlets black when dry, sparsely 

 pubescent, often distinctly zig-zag. Leaves opposite, those of 

 each pair very unequal in size, the larger ones 4 to 6 cm long and 

 2 to 3 cm wide, the smaller ones 1 to 2 cm long, 1 cm wide or 

 less, acuminate, glabrous, firmly chartaceous, dark-olivaceous 

 when dry, base acute or acuminate, the cystoliths evident on both 

 surfaces ; lateral nerves of the larger leaves 4 to 5 on each side 

 of the midrib, slender, their petioles 5 mm long or less. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or in pairs, white, about 1.2 mm long, each 

 subtended by a bract-like, oblong-spatulate, petiolate, 6 mm long 

 leaf. Calyx-segments 5, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, 5.5 



