NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 225 
simple or dichotomously branched at the apex, each bearing from 2 to 
6 follicles. Follicles cylindric, glabrous, longitudinally striate, about 3 
mm in diameter, 20 to 40 cm long, pendulous. Seeds flattened, oblong, 
6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, covered with short, brown hairs, both ends with 
numerous, long, brown hairs 7 mm in length or less. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Paracale, for. Bur. 18726 Darling, March. 19, 
1910, in forests at an altitude of about 70 m, locally known as batino. 
A species closely allied to Alstonia macrophylla Wall., but with smaller, some- 
what differently shaped leaves which have fewer lateral nerves. 
CONVOLVULACE. 
DICHONDRA Forst. 
Dichondra repens Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. (1776) 39, ¢. 20; DC. Prodr. 9 
(1855) 451. 
Sibthorpia evolvulacea Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 288. 
Dichondra evolvulacea Britton in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club. 5 (1894) 268. 
Luzon, District of Bontoc, Bauco, dry hillsides, altitude about 1,300 m, 
Father M. Vanoverbergh 19, January, 1910, locally known to the Ilocanos as 
napalapayag. 
The genus is new to the Philippines, the present species being widely distributed 
in tropical, subtropical and subtemperate regions of the world. 
VERBENACES. 
PYGMAEOPREMNA gen. nov. 
Calyx parvus, anguste campanulatus sub anthesi regulariter 5-dentatus, 
sub fructu auctus, 2-lobatus, lobo altero 2-dentato, altero 3-dentato. 
Corollae tubus brevis, cylindraceus, rectus, breviter exsertus; limbus 
distincte 2-labiatus, lobo minore exteriore, integro, lobo majore interiore, 
3-lobato, fauce intus parce villoso. Stamina 4, subaequalia, tubo affixa, 
quam corolla breviora ; antherae ovatae, loculis parallelis vix divergentibus. 
Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis; stylus apice brevissime 2-fidus. 
Drupa parva, calyce insidens, obovoidea, excentrica, exocarpio carnoso, 
tenui, endocarpio duro, indiviso, saepissime 1-loculare vel rarius obscure 
2-loculare. Semina oblonga, compressa, exalbuminosa. Suffruticosa, 
parva, erecta; parce ramosa, sparse pubescens. Folia opposita, simplicia, 
integra. Cymae parvae, breves, terminales vel in axillis superioribus 
pedunculatae. Flores parvi, albi vel virido-albi. 
‘Pygmaeopremna humilis sp. nov. 
Suffrutex erectus, usque ad 15 cm altus; foliis obovato-oblongis, opposi- 
tis, breviter petiolatis, membranaceis vel subchartaceis, acutis vel brevissime 
acuminatis, integris, basi acutis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis utrinque 
circiter 6, distantibus, distinctis; inflorescentiis terminalibus axillari- 
busque, usque ad 2 cm longis, puberulis; floribus parvis, circiter 4.5 mm 
longis. 
