‘January 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 340 
longer stamens, twisted at the base, bearing a cleft stigma; 
seeds or nuts 4, oily, black, obscurely triangular or nearly lentic- 
ular, 5 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide, rounded at apex, 
slightly united at the base. 
Type specimen 7433, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. This, the second endemic Phil- 
ippine species, grows in damp fertile soil in shaded ravines 
at 550 meters. 
Leucas sericea n. sp.—Biennial herbs,3 to 5 dm. high, 
stems angular, lanose, mainly branched from the middle; 
branchlets ascending. Leaves quite variable in size, ovate 
to elliptie, serecio tomentose especially beneath, shallowly 
deatate, with 3 to 5 ascending nerves, the average ones 2 
em. wide by 4 em. long, obtuse at apex, base rounded, with 
a lem. long petiole. Flowers snow white, not numérous in ter- 
minal or axillary clusters, sessile; calyx subtended by 3 to 
5 mm. long setaceous bracts, nearly straight, narrowed toward 
the base, 8 to 10 mm. long, 4 mm. wide toward the top, bristly 
hairy on the exterior, pubescent in the region of the throat 
‘on the interior, 10-nerved; the 10 teeth straight, also ciliate 
pubescent, setaceously acuminate, the larger series 2 mm. 
long, those alternating with them a trifle shorter; corolla 15 
mm. long, nearly straight, its glabrous tube slender, the throat 
‘divided for 5 mm. into 2 lips; the upper lip obovate, densely 
. clothed with soft ciliate hairs on the upper side; the lower 
one a trifle deflexed, subglabrous or glabrous and finely ciliate 
along the margins only, broadly 3-lobed, the lateral lobes 
truncate, the terminal one much longer and notched at the 
rounded apex; stamens 4, the glabrous hyaline filaments 
attached to the tube some distance below the throat; anthers 
fully 0.5 mm. long, dorsally attached to the filament by a 
‘small but very evident pedicel; style glabrous, subulate, its 
‘posterior lobe evident; seeds triquetrous, upon a prominent 
disk, normally 4 
Type specimen 8409, ake D. q. Elmer, Peru Prov- 
ince of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. In damp soil along 
the Mount Santo Tomas trail at 2250 meters. Associated 
with but much less common than Stachys rubisepala, Elm. 
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