349 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor..1. Arr. 16 
constricted, the upper portion inflated, glabrous except the finely 
ciliate margins toward the top; lobes 4, about 2 mm. long, 
oblong to subelliptic, obtusely rounded at apex; stamens 4, 
two of the longer ones equalling the corolla segments, the shorter 
‘pair included; filaments inserted upon the inflated constrict- 
ed corolla throat, the upper free portion glabrous, the adnate 
portion ciliate; anthers dorsally attached below the middle, 
introrse, longitudinally dehiscing, flattened, 2 mm. long, 
l-celled; ovary oblong, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, finely pubes- 
cent'at the conical apex; style very slender, subglabrous; 
capsule 1 em. long, smooth, straw brown, longitudinally 
ridged, loculicidally dehiscent, the valves divergent, 1 mm. 
thick, sharply pointed; seeds about 10, arranged on each 
side of the dissepiment, strongly flattened, slightly pulver- 
ulent, of the same color, suborbicular, 1 mm. in diameter, 
inserted in the axil of a short stout spinescent raphe. 
Type specimen 7248; A. D. E.. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. ' In deep fertile. soil of light 
woods. Related to H. hirsuta T. Andr., but much less hirsute 
and with braets subtending the flowers very linear and not 
dissimilar to the calyx segments. 
Justicia spiciformis n. sp.—An erect or suberect suf- 
frutescent. perennial; stems 5 to 8 dm. high, subterete, pu- 
berulous, nodulose, more or less crooked, branched above the 
middle, its roots comparatively few, thick and wiry. Leaves 
opposite, membranous, unequal in size and shape, the nor- 
mal blades 12 em. long, 4 cm. wide across the middle, 
equally tapering toward both ends, acute to obtuse at , the 
apex, base cuneate, margins subentire or crenately toothed, 
bright green above, yellowish green beneath, flat; petiole 
slender, 3 em. long, puberulent; lateral nerves oblique, pulver- 
ulently brown: beneath, 5 to 7 on each. side, reticulations 
faint. Inflorescence terminating the stems and branches, 
8 cm. long, sparingly branched from the base only, set upon 
3 to 5 em. long puberulent- peduncles; flowers _creamay, white, 
sessile, secundly arranged, bract opposed, rather evenly scat- 
tered along the glabrous rachis; subtended» by a. whorl of 
3.glabrous -acuminate 2 mm. long bracts, calyx. 4 mm. long, 
np: the 5 strict segments setaceously: acuminate, the basal 
