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tube, curved and flattened across or in the middle region, 

 the 5 rotately spreading segments imbricateiy twisted to the 

 left in the bud state; style also whitish, stigma green; fruits 

 upon obscurely 4-lobed flattened capsule with a prominently 

 compressed and rigid back, dull green, 4-celled and nor- 

 mally with 4 round blackish seeds; flowers entirely odorless. 



Represented by number 13076, Elmer, Puerto Princeaa 

 (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



PSEUDERANTHEinUM Radlk. 

 Pseuderanthemum bicolor (Schr.) Radlk. 



Field-note: — An erect suffrutescent usually a 3 feet high 

 undershrub; stem subterete, with longitudinally striae, smooth, 

 brown when young, yellowish when old, 0.3 inch thick, the 

 soft greenish wood with a comparatively thick white pith, very 

 sparingly rebranched from the middle, the branchlets erect; 

 leaves mostly or always at the top, in 3 spreading pairs, 

 horizontal, subcoriaceous, much paler beneath; calyx green, 

 corolla erect, early falling, white except the deep purplish 

 brown blotch on the upper side of the leaf segments to- 

 ward or the middle basal portion; young fruits green, 1 inch 

 long, flattened and expanded above the middle. Quite pretty 

 and showy-, commonly scattered through the fertile damp 

 woods at sea level. "Boyan" is the native or Tagbanua name. 



Represented by number 12628, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 

 dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



Possibly it should be referred under Eranthemuvi Linn. 



STROBILANTHUS BIm. 



Strobilanthus palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 



A perennial herb, nearly 1 m. high; ultimate branchlets 

 grooved along the sides and puberulent, ascending. Leaves 

 opposite, the pairs very unequal, membranous, relatively 

 whitish brown beneath when dry, elliptically oblong to ovately 

 so or merely elliptic, the larger lamina 1 dm. long by 4.5 

 cm. wide at the middle or a trifle below it, gradually taper- 

 ing toward the acute or acuminate apex, base subcuneate or 

 obtusely rounded, entire at the base, otherwise obscurely 

 dentate to shallowly crenate, the smaller leaves of the pairs 



