JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century oF New PLANTS 348 
more or less constricted one third from the base, slightly 
curved, strongly nerved, sparsely pilose - on. the exterior, 
subeampanulate toward the apex, the 5 segments about 4 
mm. long, reflexed, obtusely rounded at the apex, 2 mm. 
wide; stamens 2. within the corolla tube; free filament 4 
mm. long, looped, glabrous, otherwise adnate to the tube; 
anther nearly 3 mm, long, one half as wide across the sagit- 
tate base, oblong, basifixed; ovary subcompressed, linear — 
oblong, pilose, upon a carunculate base, about 6 mm. long, 
gradually tapering into the equally long style which bears 
a clavate stigma. 
Type specimen 9238, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May 1907. Discovered in humid woods at 
Bukal, a small barrio between Lucban and Sampaloc. Relat- 
ed and indeed very similar to a specimen in the herbarium 
of the Bureau of Science, collected by Mr. M. L. Merritt 
on Mount Halcon, Mindoro, June, 1906. Our specimen has 
shorter petioles; longer, eurved, and pubescent corollas; and 
with larger calyces and usually pilose ovaries. 
ACANTHACEAE, 
Hemigraphis setosa n. sp.—Erect. herbaceous perennial 
3 to 5 dm. high; stems solitary or several from the same 
cluster of fibrous roots, nodulose, more or less angled, pu- 
berulous, usually branched above the middle. Leaves mostly 
cauline and more numerous on the branches, opposite, smooth 
but strigosely marked on both sides, duller and paler green 
beneath, diverse in size and shape, linearly oblong to narrowly 
elliptie, the normal ones 7 cm. long by 2.5 em. wide, edges 
subentire toward the base, obscurely crenate toward the apex, 
subinvolute, apex obtuse, base cuneate; petiole about 5 mm. 
long, atrigose; nerves about 6, 3 on each side, ascendingly 
curved. more prominent beneath, short strigosely pubescent. 
Inflorescence terminal, 4 to 6 em. long, erect; peduncles usually 
3, from 1 to 2 em. long, subtended by a pair of much elongated 
foliaceous bracts, strigose; flowers sessile, pink, opposite, each 
subtended by a single linear 18 mm. long foliaceous braet; 
calyx persistent, green, strict, united at the base, ciliate, 1 
mm. wide at most, setosely acuminate, 4, with a prom- 
inent midrib; corolla 1 cm. long, the basal one third abruptly 
