1334 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 70 
branches; midvein conspicuous beneath; the 3 to 5 lateral nerves 
very obseure from both sides, ascending, tips usually united 
one third distance from the margin, reticulations none; petiole 
less than 1 cm. long, very slender and glabrous; stipule also gla- 
brous, 7.5 mm. long, broad at the base, acuminately pointed, the 
sides but especially the apex pectinate. Inflorescence glomer- 
ated in the uppermost leaf axils, the fruits in the lower leaf axils; 
calyx gradually widening from the base upward, glabrous, pale 
whitish except the greenish tipped calyx segments, nearly 3 mm. 
long; teeth acute, 4, strict, 1.25 mm. long; corolla white, hyaline 
below the middle in the dry state, otherwise drying brownish, 
narrowest. toward the base, 5 mm. long, glabrous except the few 
whitish hairs in the regions of the throat inside; segments 4, 
ovately obtuse, 1.5 mm. long or a trifle longer, rotately spreading 
and ultimately recurved; stamens 4, upon the throat and alter- 
nating with the segments; filaments very slender, 1 mm. long, 
glabrous; anthers basifixed, linearly oblong, ends blunt, 0.75 mm. 
long; style slender, glabrous, scarcely as long as the tube, whitish 
when dry; stigma lobes brown, short, blunt, pulverulent or pu- 
berulent; fruit 5 mm. long, elliptically elongated, terete, greenish 
especially the persistent nearly 2 mm. long calyx teeth; the 2 
halves plano convex, opened along the medium horizontal region, 
crustaceous; seeds in each cell or half black, irregular in shape, 
angularly compressed, 1 mm. across. 
Type specimen 13212, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
This low Hedyotis adorns the path along a heavily forested 
ridge at 3000 feet altitude. 
Its leaves are entirely too slender to be classed with H. mag- 
allanensis Elm. 
Hedyotis kingiana Elm. n. sp. 
A suffrutescent scrambler; stems inclined to twine, terete, 
tough, 7.5 em. thick, yellowish brown, green and subolivaceus 
pubescent on the younger portion, divaricately branched all 
along, the ultimate ones relatively short and suberect. Leaves 
copious, submembranous, ascending, only slightly folded upon 
the darker green pulverulent upper side toward the base, beneath 
short but soft pubescent, green when dry, those at the distal ends 
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