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SOLAXAriOJv 

 SOLANUM Linn. 

 Solanum inaequilaterale Merrill sp. nov. 



An unarmed, more or less stellate pubescent shrub 2 to 3 m. high, 



with alternate Bubentire or undulate leaves and extra-axillary cymes. 

 Branches light gray, glabrous, the younger ones black when dry. more or 

 less densely stellate pubescent. Leaves membranous or submembranous, 



oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, the base acute or obtuse, inequilateral, 

 the lamina on one side of the midrib extending somewhat down the 

 petiole, the margins entire or somewhat undulate, glahrous above, more 

 or less densely stellate pubesceni beneath, the young Leaves very densely 

 SO, the older ones suhglahrous ; nerves 5 to (i on each side of the midrib; 

 petioles 2 to 3 cm. long. Cymes peduncled, stellate pubescent, densely 

 or laxly flowered, about 5 cm. long. Calyx densely stellate pubescent, 

 ahoui 1 mm. long, subtruncate or obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla pale 

 purple, 11 mm. long, stellate pubescent outside, the tube 2 mm. long. 

 the 5 lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm. wide. 

 Slamens 5, oblong, about 5 mm. long. Ovary 2-celled, glahrous or 

 slightly pubescent at the apex, the style glabrous, about 6 mm. long. 

 Fruit globose, glabrous, shining, bright red when mature, about H mm. 

 in diameter, the calyx not enlarged. Seed 2 to 2.5 mm. in diameter. 

 Inllorescence becoming nearly or quite glabrous in fruit. 



Luzon, Province <>f Benguet, Suyoc to Pauai (4807 Merrill) November 7. 1905. 

 Border of the mossy forest on high ridges at about 2.000 m. No. 6204 Elmer, 

 from Sablan, the same province, appears to lie a form of this species with thin. 

 less pubescent leaves and longer, lax cymes. 



SCRO PH CJLARI ACE^E. 



ALECTRA Thunb. 



Alectra dentata (Benth.) O. Kimt/e Rev. Gen. Pi. (1891) 4.").S. Hymenosper- 

 ilium dentatum Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3963. Alectra tndwd Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. 10 (1846) 339; Hook. f. PL Brit. 1ml. 4 (1884) 2!>7 ; Forbes & 

 Items!. Joum. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 201. Melasma indica Wettst. iii 

 Engl, und Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4 (1891 l 3B: 91. 

 LUZON, Province of Benguet, Baguio to Ambuklao (4350 Merrill) October 24, 



1905. Dry open grass lands in thin pine forests at about 1,500 m. Xot previously 

 reported from the Philippines. 



Southern China to the mountains of Burma. India, and Mauritius. 



EUPHRASIA Linn. 

 Euphrasia borneensis Slapf. Trans. Linn. Soc. Hot. IT. 4 (]8!)4) 210 pi. t6. 



f. i in. 

 Luzon. Province of Benguet, Suyoc to Pauai (4720, 4722 Merrill) November 7. 



1906. Oil dry open grassy ridges at about 2,200 m. 



No species of the genus has been previously reported from the Philippines. 

 Euphrasia horneensis having previously been known only from the type locality. 

 Mount Kanabaln. British North Borneo. The specimens cited above differ from 

 Euphrasia horneensis as described by Stapf in some slight minor characters, but 



