1356 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Anm. 70 
SPERMACOCE Dill. 
Spermacoce meyeniana Walp. 
Field-note:—Erect and widely spreading biennial herb; stem | 
1 foot to 1 yard high, branched from near the base, green and 
angular; branches ascending, similar to the stem and the lower 
ones nearly as long; leaves flat, thinly coriaceous, much paler 
green beneath; inflorescence dense, axillary, pale green. 
Represented by number 12937, Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
It thrives in compact red clay along the trail to Napsan 
at 750 feet in dense humid forests. 
This species may be exactly Hedyotis congesta R. Br. 
STREBLOSA Val. 
Streblosa glabra Val. 
Field-note:—Erect or suberect low suffrutescent perennial; 
stem 1 foot high, dark green, smooth, subherbaceous, erect or 
ascending and reclining toward the base, crooked, unbranched, 
0.25 inch thick; leaves horizontal or descending, brightly shining 
and deep green above, much lighter or paler green beneath, mem- 
branous, flat or nearly so; young infrutescence usually from the 
upper leaf axils, the virgate dark green branchlets divaricate; 
fruits also dark green, soft pubescent, 0.15 inch long, sessile, sub- 
tended by green bracts, ellipsoid, terete and smooth; calyx of 5 
imbricate segments, united at the base and forming a rugosely 
enlarged zone, the sides of the acuminate segments sharply folded 
upon the inner side; corolla buds imbricate and slightly twisted 
from left to right, the 5 lobes ultimately splitting down below 
. the middle, the basal one third tubular, glabrous; stamens 5, 
_ also glabrous, inserted upon the basal portion of the corolla tube, 
. . Dot exerted, erect; filaments one half as long as the anthers, free; 
. anthers linearly 2-lobed at the base, linear or lanceolate, acu- 
. minate, basifixed, more or less united and enclosing the stigma; 
style slender, iius; stigma submitraform; ovary superior 
oe nearly so, surrounded by 5 lobular disk wopendagte. glabrous, 
