July 3, 1913] Palawan ArANxnACBAK 1695 



Collected in moist humus covered fertile soil of densely 

 shaded woods at 25 feet altitude. "Panisig" is the native 

 or Tagbanua name. 



Associated with the species and in the field it could 

 readily be distinguished. 



LEPIDAQATHIS Willd. 

 Lepidagathis inaequalis Clarke. 



Field note: — A somewhat succulent biennial herb, creep- 

 ing in wet fine gravelly soil on exposed stream banke at 50 feet 

 altitude; stems branched, taking root at the joints, finally 

 suberect, angular, reddish tinged; leaves spreading, thinly 

 coriaceous, much paler green beneath, the zone of the main 

 nerves yellow on the upper otherwise dark green surface, 

 flat; inflorescence terminal or subterminal, erect; the dense 

 greenish bracts secundly arranged; flowers delicate, ascending, 

 pure white except the middle lobe of the lower lip which 

 has a bright purple spot on the upper side, tubular except 

 the constricted basal portion, nearly 0.25 inch long; inner 

 bracts as well as the cilyx whitish with green tips or 

 segments. 



Represented by number 13028, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 

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



Lepidag^athis amaranthoides Elm. n. sp. 



Erect herbs; stem purple red with greenish striae, terete, 

 solitary or few from the same root, 3 to 8 dm. high, sparingly 

 branched above the middle, less than 5 mm. thick at the 

 base, glabrous, puberulent at the joints or nodes. Leaves 

 slightly ascending, subcoriaceous, dull deep green above, 

 whitish so beneath, opposite, widely scattering, nearly flat 

 and horizontal, curing dull and unequally green, margins en- 

 tire or nearly so, abruptly cuneate and attenuate toward the 

 base, apex obtuse, in the dry state marked with cystoliths 

 from both sides, ovately lanceolate to oblongish or the up- 

 permost ones linear to lanceolate; the normal blades 12 cm. 

 long by 5.5 cm. wide below the middle; petiole purplish, 

 slender, 3 cm. long for the longer leaves, gradually extend- 



