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than 1 mm wide, the fourth cleft to within 3.5 mm of the base, the 
lobes about 1 mm wide, lanceolate. Corolla reddish, 8 mm long, slightly 
puberulent outside, the throat villous inside, the tube not contracted ; 
upper lip rounded or slightly retuse, about 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, the 
lower one cleft into three, narrowly oblong, obtuse lobes about 3 mm 
long, 1.2 mm wide. Anthers 1.7 mm long, slightly exserted from the 
throat of the corolla-tube, one cell slightly higher than the other, cells 
parallel, not divergent. 
In the pine region at an altitude of about 1,500 m, For. Bur. 16078 Curran, 
Merritt, € Zschokke, January, 1909; between Ambuklao and Daklan, Merrill 4395, 
October, 1905 (type); without definite locality, Bur. Sci, 5912 Ramos, December, 
1908. 
The above specimens were distributed as Lepidagathis incana Nees, a Javan 
species, to which the present one does not seem to be at all closely allied. Lepid- 
agathis cinerea is well characterized by its small, narrow, subsessile leaves, its 
cinereous indumentum, and especially by its very dense, prominently white-ciliate- 
lanate spikes. 
RUNGIA Nees. 
1. R. parviflora Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 3 (1832) 110, DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 
469. 
Pine region below 2,000 m, C. M. Z. 16080. 
Not before recorded from the Philippines; also represented by Merrill 4557 from 
Mount Data (det. Clarke). . 
Eastern and southern India and Ceylon to southern China. 
HYPOESTES R. Br. 
1. H. floribunda R, Br. Prodr. (1810) 474; Nees in DC, Prodr. 11 (1847) 509. 
Pine region below 1,100 m, @C. M. Z. 16079. 
The same form is also represented by the following specimens: District of Le- 
panto, For. Bur. 5690 Klemme: Province of Ilocos Norte, For. Bur. 12486 Merritt 
é Darling: Province of Benguet, Williams 1389, Elmer 5877. 
The late C. B. Clarke, who referred Elmer 5877 to Hypoestes floribunda, with 
doubt, states that it (Elmer 5877) ‘differs less from H. floribunda than the 
numerous varieties of that species differ among themselves. 
Tropical Australia and Malaya; not previously reported from the Philippines. 
JUSTICIA Linn. 
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1. J. procumbens Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 15. : 
Pine region below 1,500 m, C. M. Z. 16081. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes. India and 
Ceylon to southern China, Malaya, and Australia. 
RUBIACE. 
HEDYOTIS Linn. 
1. H. bartlingii Merrill nom. noy. 
Metabolos angustifolius DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 436; Sclerococcus Bartl. |. c. syn. 
Hedyotis angustifolia Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1858) 182; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 
(1880) 107, non C. & S. 
