Jcr.v 3, 1913] Palawa?i Acanthackae 1697 



spikes. Quite similar to L. javanica Blm.y judging from the 

 author's short description. 



HYPOESTES Soland. 



Hypoestes merrillii Clarke. 



Field-note: — Rather rank and somewhat succulent, bi or 

 perennials, in rich humus covered soil of dense forests at 25 

 feet altitude; stems subterete, smoothish, always less than 

 0.5 inch thick, purplish brown at the slightly swollen nodes, 

 reclining at the base and taking roots at the joints, branched 

 fi'om the base; leaves flat, smooth, spreading, diverse in size, 

 deep green above, much paler beneath; spikes slender and 

 strict, terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, the ascending 

 odorless flowers arranged along the lower side; bracts green; 

 flowers purple, divaricately tipped, deeply bilobed; style white, 

 filaments purple; the basal portion of the corolla white and 

 tubular. "Panisip" is the Tagbanua vernacular name. 



Represented by number 12680, Elmer, Brooks Point 

 (Addison Peak), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Hypoestes addisoniense Elm. n. sp. 



Densely clustered perennials; stems numerous, 6 dm. 

 high, the old ones persistent, terete, dark green, numerously 

 branched from below the middle, yellowish brown pnberulent 

 or toward the base glabrous; branchlets subangular and grooved 

 along the two sides, rather numerous, thickened or flattened 

 at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous, scattered along all 

 branchlets, flat, mostly horizontal, much deeper green on 

 the upper surface, curing blackish, glabrous and with 

 cystoliths on the nether side only, the upper ones smaller 

 and lanceolate, the lower or larger broadly so or fusiformly 

 oblongish, entire, the recurved tips acuminate to caudate, base 

 acute or subattenuate, the largest lamina nearly 1 dm. long 

 by 2.5 cm. wide across the middle or just below it; midvein 

 subglabrous beneath, the 4 to 6 lateral pairs, faint and very 

 oblique, their tips much curved, reticulations not evident or 



