XIV, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 451 
ince, San Fernando, Lete 108, 175, July and September, 1916, 
in open sandy places near sea level, with the Ilocano name 
camarin. 
This species has been previously reported only from Austra- 
lia and Formosa, but the Philippine specimens cited above agree 
very closely with the descriptions and with Australian material 
kindly supplied by Mr. J. H. Maiden. In vegetative characters 
the Philippine specimens present great variation, as do the Aus- 
tralian ones. Iam further of the opinion that Henry 1112 from 
Formosa represents a somewhat dwarfed form of the same 
species. My specimen of this, identified as Ipomoea sp., is but 
about 10 cm high and has unusually narrow leaves. In floral 
characters, however, it closely approximates the Luzon form. 
VERBENACEAE 
CALLICARPA Linnaeus 
CALLICARPA OBTUSIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex, ramulis et petiolis et inflorescentiis et subtus foliis 
uniformiter denseque cinereo-stellato-tomentosus; foliis ellipticis 
ad oblongo-ellipticis, supra glabris, subcoriaceis, usque ad 8 cm 
longis, apice rotundatis, obtusis, vel subacutis, margine denti- 
culatis, nervis utrinque 5 ad 7, perspicuis; cymis pedunculatis, 
dichotomis, usque ad 2.5 cm latis; floribus numerosis, circiter 
2.5 mm longis, calycis extus dense albido-stellato-tomentosis. 
A shrub, the branchlets, petioles, inflorescences, and lower sur- 
face of the leaves densely and uniformly cinereous-stellate-pu- 
bescent, the indumentum covering the entire surface. Branches 
terete, pale-brownish, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 
subcoriaceous, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 4 em wide, the apex rounded, 
obtuse, or sometimes subacute, base usually obtuse, margins 
entire below, in the upper part distinctly denticulate, the upper 
surface brownish-olivaceous, glabrous or when young stellate- 
pubescent along the midrib; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side of © 
the midrib, curved, distinct as are the primary reticulations; 
petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Cymes axillary, peduncled, dichot- 
omous, up to 2.5 cm wide, the peduncles about 1.5 cm long; 
bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2.5 mm long; pedicels 
0.5 mm long or less. Flowers rather crowded, pink. Calyx 
cup-shaped to obconic, about 1.6 mm long, densely stellate-pu- 
bescent, the teeth 4, short. Corolla glabrous, 2.5 mm long, the 
lobes equal, orbicular-ovate, rounded, nearly 1 mm in diameter. 
Filaments and style 5 to 6 mm long. Fruit globose, dark-brown 
and rugose when dry, about 2 mm in diameter. 
