322 MERRILL. 



axillary. an«l terminating the branches, 1 to 3 cm long, few-flowered, the 

 flowers distant or close, Flowers blue, the bracteoles paired, the lower pair 

 2.6 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly hairy, the upper pair larger. 

 ovate to elliptic-ovate, abruptly acuminate, green with hyaline margins, 

 3 mm long. 3 mm wide. Sepals 5, free or nearly so, hyaline, lanceolate 

 or narrowly lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, apex slenderly acuminate, 

 more or less ciliate-hairy. Corolla about 5 mm long, blue, the tube short, 

 1 mm long, glabrous, 2-lobed, lobes imbricate, the larger, outer lobe 

 inclosing the other in hud, 1 mm long, obovate, 3-lobed, the tenninal 

 lobe broad, retuse, the lateral ones ovate, blunt ; the smaller, inner corolla- 

 lobe ovate, entire, 3 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, blunt-acuminate. Stamens 

 2; filaments about 2 mm long; anthers 2-celled, one cell above the other, 

 the lower cell spurred* at the base, the spur rounded at its tip; pollen 

 elliptic. Ovary glabrous, ovoid; style simple, 2.5 to 3 mm long. Fruit 

 (immature) oblong, compressed, 3 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, hyaline, 

 apieulate, containing four rounded, compressed, verrucose seeds. 



LUKWT, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 2312 Mcarm, February, 1007; Vin- 

 lur. For. Bur. 15509 Merritt & Darling; Pasuquin, For. Bur. 15536 Morriti 4 

 Darling, November, 1908, in open grass-lands, etc., 100 to 400 m altitude. 



Possibly most closely allied to Justicia procumbens Linn., which it resembles 

 in habit, but is much more slender than any forms of that species known to me, 

 differing in its very slender, continuous or interrupted spikes, five, instead of 

 four sepals, its blue corolla, and many other characters. 



STROBILANTHES Bluine. 



Strobilanthes mearnsii sp. nov. 



Herba erecta, omnibus partibus plus minus hirsutis; foliis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, vel late ovato-lanceolatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, longe tenuiter 

 aeuminatis, denticulatis, in paribus inaequalibus ; inflorescentiis laxis, 

 paucifloris, pedunculis longis, hirsutis; floribus congestis, paucis; sepalis 

 eireiter (i mm longis, anguste lanceolatis, hirsutis; corolla alba, usque ad 

 2.7 cm longa; staminibus 4; filamentis villosis. 



An erect, branched herb, more or less villous or hirsute throughout, 

 exceeding 60 em in height. Branches terete, slender, dark-green or 

 brownish, hirsute. Leaves opposite, in unequal pairs, oblong-lanceolate 

 to broadly ovate-lanceolate, hirsute, membranaceous, the larger ones 8 to 

 15 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, the smaller ones of each pair half as huge 

 or smaller, acuminate at both ends, the apex slenderly so, dentate, the 

 upper surface with numerous small rhaphides; nerves about 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, distinct; petioles densely hirsute, 1 to 2 cm long. 

 Inflorescence axillary, 7 to 10 cm long, few-flowered, hirsute, the flowers 

 capitate at the ends of the few branches, 3 to 5 flowers in a head, the 

 bracts foliaceous, deciduous. Calyx about 8 mm long, the lobes 6 mm 

 long, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla white, about 2.7 cm long, the tube 

 slender below, widened above, slightly hirsute outside, subequallv 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 4; filaments villous; anthers 1.3 mm long. 



