516 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY | [Vor. II, Art. 24 
glabrous, truncate at apex; fruits olive green, subglobose or 
flattened and obscurely obovoid, 2-seeded, the covering yel- 
lowish. 
Type specimen 10223, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May. 1908. 
Discovered only once in moss laden woods at 4750 feet on 
the trail from the springs to the summit of the lesser peak. 
Named in honor of Dr. K. B. Presl, who aside of other 
writings has done a great work on Philippine botany. 
LABIAT/&. 
SCUTELLARIA Linn. 
Scutellaria marivelensis Elm. n. sp. 
Perennial, subfrutescent; stems slender, pulverulent, terete, 
2 mm. thick, several from a rigid woody root crown, most- 
ly branched some distance from the base; branches very 
slender, short dirty yellowish pubescent, quite freely rebranch- 
ed. Leaves delicate, quite variable in size, less than 1 cm. 
long and 8 mm. wide, ovate, the smaller ones subrotund, 
the larger ones bluntly lanceolate, entire or minutely den- 
ticulate on each side toward the round apex, base broadly 
rounded, opposite, scattered all along the branchlets, dark 
green and minutely sprinkled with minute hairs on the up- 
per side, much paler, similarly hairy and minutely punctate 
beneath; petiole very slender, 3; mm. long, finely pubescent; 
nerves 1 to 3 pairs, ascending, submarginally united, clear- 
ly visible beneath, coarse reticulations obsolete. Inflorescence 
terminating slender branchlets, usually 3 to 5 cm. long, spicate, 
cinereous; flowers blue except the whitish basal portion, odor- 
less, opposite or in subwhorls, 0.5 to 1 cm. apart; pedi- 
cel at most 5 mm. in length, persistent, subtended by bracts; 
calyx cinereous, 2 mm. long, greenish, nearly 3 mm. broad 
across the throat; its segments broadly rounded or the lower 
lip subtruncate and the upper one becoming much elongat- 
ed in fruit and strongly reticulate; corolla delicate, 1.5 cm. 
Jong, tubular, gradually enlarged from the oblique subinflated 
base, puberulent on the exterior; filaments hyaline, included, 
adnate to the corolla tube at about the middle, glabrous; 
