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JaNUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1333 
HEDYOTIS Linn. 
Hedyotis perhispida Elm. n. comb. Lasianthus hispidus 
Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. I; 10, 1906. 
Field-note:—Harsh or very scabrous suffrutescent under- 
shrubs or perennial herbs; stem single or few to several from the 
same root, flexible, terete, greenish, freely rebranched from the 
middle; the branches also slender, spreading and resting upon 
other herbaceous orligneous plants; leaves scabrid, flat, char- 
taceous, paler beneath; inflorescence very short, ultimately di- 
chotemously branched and divarieately disposed, spreading, 
dull green except the small yellowish white corolla; infrutescence 
short, loosely paniculate or cymose; valves ellipsoid, 3 mm. long, 
hispid, terminated by the 4 persistent acuminate calyx teeth, 
2-celled; the valves or cocci 3 to 5-carinate on the dorsal side, 
flat on the ventral side, 2 mm. long, obovoidly ellipsoid, short 
pointed at the base, rounded at the apex, the ventral side open 
along the medium line; seeds rugose, dark brown, 0.75 mm. across, 
5 in each cell, imbedded in a somewhat fleshy membrane, sub- 
compressed, irregularly rounded from the side view. 
Represented by number 12735, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
| Very common in dry stony soil along gravelly creek beds 
or in other poor soil among herbaceous thickets of light wooded 
flats at 250 feet. 
By the nature of the ripe fruit it belongs to Hedyotis rather 
than to Lasianthus, and since the specific name "hispida" has 
already been used in the former genus, the prefix “per” is applied 
for the sake of distinction at least. 
Hedyotis pulgarensis Elm. n. sp. 
An erect, laxly branched undershrub; branchlets terete, 
glabrous, green, slender. Leaves scattered all along, opposite, 
drying green on both sides, slightly paler beneath, glabrous, as- 
cending, flat or only the slenderly acuminate tips recurved, quite 
variable in size, entire, acute or acuminate at base, lanceolate, 
the larger blades 1 dm. long by 1.75 em. wide below the middle, 
membranous, frequently smaller especially toward the tips of the 
