Frsrvary 15, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 
fruiting stage 5 mm. long; calyx united at the very base, 
8 mm. long, the 5 slenderly acuminate segments minutely 
glandularly punctate on the outer side, persistent; ovary 3 
mm. long, conically elongated, glabrous; style filiform, sub- 
persistent, subglabrous or finely pubescent below the middle, 
strongly curved; fruits not mature, 5 cm. long, smooth, the 
lower one half constricted, that portion above the middle 
expanded and subcompressed, terminated into a stout 5 mm. 
long point; immature seeds 4, very flat, 5 mm. across, set 
upon rigid sharply curved retinaculae. 
Type specimen 9619, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
Only one plant of this species was observed by me while 
in that region for four months. It was found on a very 
Steep deeply shaded ravine near a stream at 2500 feet. In 
its habitat it is most distinct from all other Philippine spe- 
cies so far known. Some of the Visayan people know it 
as 'Bankaro." ; 
Not E. curtatum C. B. Clarke nor its allied species E. 
crenulatum Nees, E. malaccense C. B. Clarke and E. andersoni 
Mast. It is very different from E. haenkeanum Ness, and 
E. bicolor Schrank., & species with dark blotched flowers. 
HEMIGRAPHIS Nees. 
Hemigraphis sublobatum Elm. n. sp. 
Herbs, suberect or reclining, from a few cm.to 3 dm. 
high; stems delicate, dirty and bristly pubescent, branched 
from the lower leaf axils. Leaves opposite, greatly varying 
in size and shape, thin, horizontally spreading, green above 
and with darker green veins, beneath much lighter green 
and veins often tinged with purple, pseudostrigose on both 
sides, the average blades 3 to 5 cm. long, 2.5 cm, wide, 
ovate in outline or oblongish or even elliptic, apex obtuse 
or rounded, base subtruncate or rounded, 3 to 5-lobulate, 
the lobulations blunt, the smaller bract like leaves suben- 
tire or nearly undulate; nerves very faint, 2 to 3 pairs, be- 
neath usually dirty yellowish pubescent, ascendingly curved; 
petiole not exceeding 2 cm. long, pubescent, slender, those 
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