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DacemBer 14, 1908] THREE Scorz or New PLANTS 
anthers 0.5 mm. across, basifixed, very broad at the base, 
obscurely ciliate; ovary glabrous; fruiting calyx dry and straw 
colored; nutlets several, brown, glandular or hispidulous, 
irregularly angled, 0.75 mm. in diameter. 
Type specimen 6984, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Mariveles, 
Province of Bataan, Luzon, November, 1904. 
This species is very distinct in habit and very local in 
distribution. It is plentiful in the woods of mount Mariveles 
from 1500 to 3000 feet and has been collected by nearly 
every collector who has visited that mountain. Only once 
collected outside the type locality so far as I know. Maximo 
Ramos collected it in Rizal province. In all our distributions 
it was sent out as S. luzonica Rolfe which was based upon 
a specimen which Mr. Lobb undoubtedly obtained from the 
province of Benguet. My specimens 5835 and 7650 from 
517 
Baguio are what is here considered S. luzonica Rolfe, and - 
which extends through the mountainous regions of northern 
Luzon to Formosa. Possibly Mr. Rofle tried to fit his de- 
scription to two distinctly different plant species. The stems 
and branches of the mount Mariveles plant spread over rocky 
soil or trail upon cliffs; the root crown is always hard and 
woody, the stems are subfrutescent. The plant from the north- 
ern provinces is herbaceous throughout and inhabits moist 
compact soil chiefly along streams. No critical eye would 
take them for the same species in the field, and in the 
herbarium the Mariveles specimens can without special exam- 
ination be singled out at once from all the other Philip- 
pine species. 
ACANTHACEJE. 
HYPOESTES Soland. 
Hypoestes linearis Elm. n. sp. 
A tufted biennial or perennial herb, 3 to 5 or even 8 dm. 
high; stem slender, mostly glabrous, several from the same 
root, angular or striate, green, terminated by lax, sparingly 
flowered panicles. Leaves opposite, linear to lanceolate, quite 
variable in size, the normal blades 5 cm. in length, 6 mm. 
in width, membranous, entire, darker green and glabrous 
