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florescence a lax, divaricately branched, more or less leafy panicle 
terminating the stems, the upper leaves much reduced, ovate, 
cordate, sessile, 3 cm long or less, these subtending the branches, 
similar but much smaller ones subtending the branchlets, the 
whole inflorescence 30 cm long or more, rather lax. Flowers 
4-merous, disposed in small lax or rather dense cymes at the 
ends of the branchlets. Calyx-tube broadly funnel-shaped, 
glabrous or somewhat pubescent, about 2 mm long, the lobes 
4, oblong-ovate, about 4 mm long, 2 mm wide, obtuse or acute, 
somewhat accrescent and persistent in fruit, the whole calyx 
somewhat urceolate. Corolla white, the tube cylindric, 12 to 14 
mm long, about 3 mm in diameter, quite glabrous but with 
scattered cystoliths, the lobes 4, spreading or reflexed, oblong- 
ovate, obtuse or acute, 3 mm long. Filaments 4 mm long, ex- 
serted; anthers 2 mm long. Style very slender, 2.5 cm long. 
Capsule somewhat globose or obovoid, 3 mm in diameter, crowned 
by the somewhat spreading calyx-lobes which are 6 mm long, 
3 mm wide, subcoriaceous. Seeds black, sharply 3-angled, 
about 1 mm long. 
R. C. McGregor 458, hills back of Piti, altitude about 100 meters, October, 
1911. 
A striking species on account of its comparatively large flowers, its 
ample, lax, divaricately branched panicles, and its large, persistent, some- 
what spreading calyx-lobes. 
HEDYOTIS MARIANNENSIS sp. nov. 
Suffruticosa, ut videtur erecta, ramosa, glabra, ramis ramu- 
lisque teretibus vel ramulis in siccitate nigris, obscure 4-angu- 
latis; foliis membranaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, nitidis, 
usque ad 12 cm longis, apice breviter acuminatis, basi acutis, 
breviter petiolatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5, tenuibus, obscuris; 
inflorescentiis terminalibus, pedunculatis, 6 ad 9 cm diametro, 
laxis vel subconfertis; floribus 4-meris; corolla circiter 6 mm 
longa, glabra. 
An erect, somewhat branched suffrutescent or woody plant, 
quite glabrous, the older branches terete, grayish-brown in color, 
3 to 5 mm in diameter, sometimes marked with 4, slender, longi- 
tudinal lines, the branchlets nearly black when dry, somewhat 
4-angled, or with 4 lines, sometimes nearly terete. Leaves 
oblong-elliptic, membranaceous, shining, brownish or olivaceous 
when dry, of the same color on both surfaces, apex shortly and 
sharply acuminate, base acute; lateral nerves about 5 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, obscure, ascending, the reticulations 
very lax, not prominent; petioles 5 mm long or less, usually 
