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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 251" 
Scaevola pedunculata sp. nov. 
Species S. micranthae affinis, sed differt ramulis foliis inflorescentiisque 
glabris, axillis barbatis exceptis, foliis longioribus, cymis longe peduncu- 
latis, floribus paulo longioribus. 
A shrub 2 to 4 m high, erect, nearly glabrous, axils excepted. Branches 
terete, smooth, olivaceous, glabrous, the axils of the leaves and pedun- 
cles densely bearded with long white hairs. Leaves distant, scat- 
tered, chartaceous or submembranaceous, narrowly oblong-obovate or 
oblong-oblanceolate, glabrous and shining on both surfaces, 6 to 10 cm 
long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, the apex broad, rounded or very slightly and 
obscurely acuminate, gradually narrowed from the upper third to the 
base, the. petiolar part about 1 cm long; nerves about 8 on each side of 
the midrib, indistinct. Cymes axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves, 
glabrous except the densely bearded axils of the branches and bracts, 
the peduncles about 5 em long, each bearing at its apex two linear-lance- 
olate to subspatulate 1 to 1.5 em long bracts, and four primary branches 
about 1.5 em long, the branches in turn bracteate at their apices and 
bearing usually four shorter branchlets, the ultimate ones bearing usually 
three flowers, a central sessile one, and two lateral pedicellate ones, the 
bracteoles about 5 mm long. Flowers white. Calyx 2.5 mm long, gla- 
brous, the five teeth broadly ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. Corolla 1 
em long, slightly curved, somewhat pubescent outside but not densely so, 
pilose inside, the lobes about 4 mm long, with broad, thin, infolded 
margins. Style slightly silky, the indusium surrounding the’ stigma 
densely ciliate. Drupe glabrous, obscurely costate, about 3 mm long. 
PALAWAN, on rocky river banks, altitude about 175 m, Mount Victoria, Bur. 
Sci. 744 Foaworthy, March 25, 1906. 
A species manifestly allied to 8. micrantha Presl, but apparently sufficiently 
distinct, recognizable by its somewhat larger leaves, long peduncled cymes, the 
axils of the peduncles, leaves, bracts and bracteoles densely bearded with long 
white hairs, the plant otherwise glabrous or nearly so. 
Scaevola pedunculata var. mollis var. nov. 
A typo differt omnibus partibus dense breviter pubescentibus. 
PALAWAN, Mount Victoria, altitude about 1,000 m, Bur. Sci. 700 Foxworthy, 
March 23, 1906. 
The specimen on which the above variety is based in all essential characters 
is the same as the type, differing in being softly and rather densely pubescent 
throughout with short grayish hairs. The flowers appear to be quite the same 
as in the species, but the fruits are slightly pubescent. Additional material may 
show this form to be worthy of specific rank, but it is considered best for the 
present to consider it as a variety only. It is apparently more closely allied to 
S. micrantha Presl than is the species, but differs from Presl’s species in all the 
characters indicated for S. pedunculata except in its pubescence, and in this 
it is very decidedly more pubescent than is 8. micrantha Presl. Logically, if 
Scaevola sericea Forst. is to be considered specifically distinct from 8. koenigti 
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