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OLDENLANDIA LINN, 
, wM ater APS T, 
* Ligneous (Hedyotisj, 
-— Flowers sessile in small heads. 
1. O. prainiana (King) Elm. 
+ + Inflorescence lax, panieulate, much exceeding the leaves. 
2. O. apoensis n. sp. A diffuse shrub, 1 to 2 m. high; 
upper stems and branches glabrous, smooth and shining. 
Leaves including the 1 cm. long petiole, 7 to 12 em. long, 
1.5 to 3 em. wide, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, base 
acute, membranous, glabrous on both sides, nerves 5 to 7 
pairs, chiefly from the  midrib below the middle and 
parallel to it; stipules glabrous, united at the broad base, 
1 em. long including the numerous laciniate shreds which 
at least in the younger ones bear elongated glandular tips. 
Inflorescence lax and axillary, slenderly paniculate, much 
exceeding the leaves; its main peduncles subtended by fo- 
liaceous bracts, the ultimate ones 3-flowered and subtended 
by setaceous bracts; pedicels at least 1 cm. long, glabrous; 
calyx turbinate, smoothly glabrous, 4 mm. long including 
the erect acute 1.5 mm. long segments; corolla campanulate, 
7 mm. long, glabrous on the outside as well at on the 
inside, half divided into 4 triangularly obtuse segments which 
are densely pilose on the entire ventral surface; stamens 4, 
inserted upon the corolla 1 mm. below the throat and al- 
ternating with the segments; filaments short, flattened; ant- 
hers 2 mm. long, pointed toward the apex, sagittate at base, 
dorsifixed; style glabrous, exerted, subpersistent, with a small 
terminal stigma; ovary 2-celled, septicidally dehiscing; seeds 
numerous, black, angular, obscurely pitted. 
Type specimen 1131, E. B. Copeland, Mount Apo, Pro- 
vince of Davao, Mindanao, April, 1904. Sprawling and woody 
at the base, near the 2000 meter camp. 
-— + + Inflorescence corymbose or subumbellate, the cluster 
somewhat congested, not exceeding the leaves. 
++ Stipules of numerous long filiform segments. 
3. O. yoderi n. sp. Apparently a low shrub, with ul- 
timate branches smoothly glabrous and fluted. Leaves op- 
