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stipules broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent, about 6 mm long. 
Inflorescences sessile or subsessile, lax, the axis and branches 
3 cm long or less, subferruginous-pubescent, the whole inflores- 
cence including the slender styles about 12 cm in diameter. 
Flowers white, 4-merous. Calyx pubescent, 3 mm long, ovoid, 
the teeth 4, ovate, acute, 0.8 mm long. Corolla-tube slender, 
glabrous on both surfaces, about 18 mm long, the throat not 
bearded, the lobes 4, subelliptic, obtuse, 6 mm long, 3.5 mm wide. 
Anthers 6 mm long, spirally twisted. Ovary 2-celled, cells 1- 
ovulate; style and stigma very slender, glabrous, 4.5 cm long. 
PALAWAN (Paragua), Separation Point, Merrill 831, Feb- 
ruary 18, 1903, in forests at low altitudes. 
This species resembles Pavetta indica Linn., but differs in so 
many characters that it can scarcely be treated as a form or 
variety of that species. Notable characters are its subferrugi- 
nous indumentum, longer flowers, its corolla glabrous on both 
surfaces and not bearded at the throat, and its os elongated 
styles. 
PAVETTA INDICA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 110. 
Pavetta barnesiti Elm. Leafi. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 27; Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 132. 
This species is represented by about fifty different collections 
from all parts of the Philippines. Now that so much material is 
available, and further that we have abundant material from 
India, China, and Malasia for comparison, I fail to see how Pa- 
vetta barnesii Elm. can be distinguished from the typical form 
of Pavetta indica Linn. I interpret the type of Pavetta indica 
Linn, as the Ceylon plant, Fl. Zeyl. No. 56, and an excellent 
description of this typical form is given by Trimen.* The type 
of Pavetta barnesii Elm. closely matches Thwaites 1663 from 
Ceylon. 
PAVETTA PHANEROPHLEBIA Merr. nom. nov. 
Pavetta palawanensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) Bot. 
117, cum. descr., non Elm. 
As noted under Tarenna, to which Pavetta palawanensis Elm. 
pertains, my interpretation of Pavetta palawanensis Elm. was 
based on Mr. Elmer’s description which, as to the flowers, is 
incomplete and somewhat erroneous. An examination of his 
type shows that the ovary cells of his species are biovulate, so 
* Fil. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 349. 
