APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1491 
Only found in hot dry sand gravelly soil along the Pauala 
river bottom above 750 feet elevation. In all probability washed 
down from the summit region of mount Giting-giting. "'Pagang- 
pang" is its Visayan name. 
| Distinct from V. villarii Vid. and V. whitfordii Merr. of our 
= Philippine species, and from V. coriaceum Hook. of mount Kina- 
À balu, British North Borneo. 
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GOODENIACEAE. 
Scaevola merrillii Elm. n. sp. 
A low lax shrub; stem 3.5 cm. thick, terete, usually more 
than one, branched from near the base, branches widely spread- 
ing; the twigs suberect or ascending, terete, smooth, gray, young 
. portion faintly cinereous, at their ends bearing numerous leaves; 
wood soft, pale white, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth and 
grayish. Leaves horizontally spreading, coriaceous, flat, the 
obtuse tips recurved, paler green beneath, nearly glabrous above, 
sordidly tomentose beneath, obovately oblong to oblanceolate, 
coriaceous, slenderly cuneate to attenuate toward the base, the 
entire margins involute, the terminal or younger ones smaller, 
the old blades 1 dm. long by 3 em. wide above the middle, drying 
unequally brown on both sides; midrib stout and prominent be- 
neath, cinereous and shallowly grooved on the upper side toward 
the base; lateral pairs about 5 to 7, the basal pair nearly parallel 
with the edge, the upper ones oblique, the cross bars and coarse 
reticulations faint; petiole 1 em. long, thickened at the base, with 
fine yellowish gray hairs in the axils, cinereous when young, shal- 
lowly caniculate along the upper side. Inflorescence axillary or 
from below the foliage, greenish except the white petals and 
yellow stamens, 1 dm. long or less; peduncle subterete, branched 
from above the middle, solitary, puberulent; branches dicho- 
temous, subtended by green lance shaped bracts, with soft whitish 
short hairs in their axils, repeatedly branched; pedicel 5 to 8 
mm. long, olivaceus pubescent, subtended by foliaceous bracts, 1 
or 2-bracteate toward the distal end, at the base provided with fine 
white hairs and slightly thinner; calyx greenish, similarly pubes- 
cent, elongated or barrel shaped, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. long, thick, 
