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reddish brown to nearly black when dry. Leaves subcoriaceous, 
elliptic to oblong-elliptic, black when dry, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 
4.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute or acuminate 
base and to the short-acuminate apex; lateral nerves slender, 
about 6 on each side of the midrib, the reticulations obsolete; 
petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm long; stipules truncate, about 1 mm long. 
Inflorescences axillary, peduncled, 2.5 to 4 cm long, the terminal 
parts of the branches supplied with more or less reduced leaves 
and forming an elongated leafy inflorescence. Flowers 5 to 
9 in each inflorescence, their pedicels up to 5 mm in length, the 
uppermost inflorescence sometimes reduced to a fascicle, others 
racemose or umbellate, and others cymose. Calyx cup-shaped, 
glabrous, truncate, 4 mm long. Corolla-tube 8 to 9 mm long, 
glabrous externally, the lobes spreading, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 
inside very densely white-villous. Style about 8 mm long. An- 
thers 2.5 to 3 mm long, linear-oblong. . Fruits broadly obovoid, 
about 8 mm long and wide, slightly 4-sulcate, longitudinally 4- 
celled, black when dry. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34677 (type), 34589 
Ramos & Pascasio, April and June, 1919, on ridges at the iron 
deposit on the northeast coast, altitude 460 to 680 meters. 
This species is distinctly different from the other representa- 
tives of this genus and of the allied genus Tetralopha, differing 
in its vegetative and inflorescent characters. I am now of the 
opinion that Tetralopha cannot be retained as generically distinct 
from Gynochthodes, : 
HEDYOTIS Linnaeus 
HEDYOTIS ATROPURPUREA sp nov. 
Suffruticosa, erecta, circiter 1 m alta, parce ramosa, ramig ob- 
scure rotundato-angulatis sulcatisque, dense breviter et adpresse 
hirsutis; foliis ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, utrinque scabris, coria- 
ceils, usque ad 7 cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, in siccitate 
utrinque viridis, in vivo subtus et cum ramis inflorescentiisque 
atropurpureis; nervis primariis utrinque circiter 6, supra valde 
impressis, subtus perspicuis, curvato-adscendentibus; inflorescen- 
tiis terminalibus, paniculatis, pubescentibus, usque ad 18 em 
longis, multifloris; floribus circiter 5 mm longis. 
An erect, sparingly branched, suffrutescent plant, about 1 m 
high, prominently pubescent, the leaves scabrous. Branches 5 
to 6 mm in diameter, obscurely rounded-angled, usually sulcate, 
the older parts brownish, nearly glabrous, the younger parts 
rather densely appressed-hirsute with short, greenish-olivaceous 
