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pubescent, 2 to 4 mm long; stipules pubescent, ovate, persistent, 3 to 4 
mm long, cut into six or more linear laciniw. Cymes terminal and in 
the upper axils, small, dense, comparatively few-flowered, subsessile or 
the axillary ones sometimes with peduncles up to 1.5 em in length, all 
parts more or less pubescent, the bracts foliaceous, spatulate, 5 to 6 mm 
long, the pedicels usually about 1 mm in length. Calyx-tube ovoid, 
pubescent, 2 mm long, the lobes usually 4, lanceolate, acuminate, pubes- 
cent, 3mm long. Corolla apparently white, 6 mm long, the tube 4 mm 
in length, cylindric, glabrous outside, villous within, usually with 4 lobes, 
rarely with 3 or 5, the lobes oblong, obtuse or acute, 2 mm long, reflexed 
in anthesis, slightly strigose on the back. Anthers 1.2 mm long. Style 
3.5 mm long, cleft at the apex. Capsule ovoid, 3.5 mm long, somewhat 
strigose-pubescent, the seeds black, compressed, angular, irregular, 1.2 to 
1.5 mm long. . 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 8490 McGregor, June, 1909 
(type), Bur. Sci. 4473 Mearns, August, 1907. 
Apparently a species of the mossy forest, allied to Hedyotis benguetensis Elm., 
and other species of that group, but well characterized by its strigose pubescence. 
Hedyotis pilosissima sp. nov. 
Frutex vel suffrutex erectus, simplex, vix 1 m altus, omnibus partibus 
plus minus dense pilosus; foliis chartaceis vel submembranaceis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 16 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis, nervis 6 vel 7 utrinque, adscendentibus ; stipulis amplis, laciniatis ; 
cymis in axillis dense congestis, subcapitatis, dense multifloris. 
An erect unbranched suffrutescent or decidedly woody undershrub less 
than 1 m high, the stems terete, about 6 mm in diameter, brownish or 
grayish, densely pilose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 12 
to 16 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 
greenish when dry, somewhat shining, the apex acuminate, base acute, 
both surfaces with numerous, long, white hairs, especially so on the 
midrib and nerves on the under surface; nerves 6 or 7 on each side of 
the midrib, distinct, ascending, not or obscurely anastomosing, the sec- 
ondary nerves and the reticulations obsolete; petioles pilose, 1.5 to 2 em 
long; stipules ample, green, somewhat pilose, up to 1.5 em long, 1.2 
em wide, cut into about 12, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate laciniae 3 to 
5 mm in length, the middle one longer. Cymes axillary, more or less 
pilose, congested, forming subglobose or hemispherical inflorescences 1 to 
* cm in diameter. Flowers 4-merous, their pedicels up to 2 mm in 
length, sometimes wanting, the bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm: 
long. Calyx-tube ovoid, glabrous, about 1.2 mm long, the lobes green, 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long, the margins ciliate with long white 
hairs. Corolla-tube 2 mm long, the lobes about the same length, oblong, 
recurved, usually acute. Anthers 1mm long. Capsule globose or ovoid, 
glabrous except for the few hairs on the persistent calyx-lobes, about 2 
