1698 Leaflets op Philippine BotAny [Vol. V, Art. 91 



very fine; longer petiole 1 cm. long, minutely grooved along 

 the upper side, puberulent, those of the smaller leaves much 

 shorter. Inflorescence in nearly all the leaf axils but espe- 

 cially in the upper ones; flowers few to severally clustered, 

 erect, from the upper leaf axils, their pedicels short and 

 thick and usually provided with minute bracts; calyx 3.5 

 mm. long, lanceolate, keeled and ciliate on the back as well 

 as toward the apex; corolla 8 mm. long, slightly flattened, 

 tubular toward the base, puberulent around the middle 

 on the exterior, hilobed nearly to the middle, the veins in the 

 throat region finely ciliate, the upper lip V>road and 3-lobulate 

 and reddish tinged, the lower or gradually tapering to- 

 ward the yellowish white truncate tip; stamens 2, fertile; 

 filaments upon the middle of the corolla, 2.5 mm. long, the free 

 portion glabrous, recurved and exerted out of the 2 lipped 

 sinuses; anther cells very oblique, nearly 1 mm. long, the 

 lower one with a hyaline caudate point, compressed, round- 

 ed at apex; style slender, 5 ram. long, very sparingly cil- 

 iate, stigma slightly thickened; ovary dark brown, ellipsoid, 

 1.5 mm. long, upon a rim-like similarly colored base. Cap- 

 sule 6 mm, long, 1.5 mm. thick at the middle, angular, 

 bluntly pointed at both ends, fluted, 2-celled, 4-seeded, de- 

 hiscent from the apex into recurved halves; seeds 1.5 mm. 

 long, broadly truncate at base, reddish brown pitted, round- 

 ed at apex, in the axils of tlie raphides. 



Type specimen number 12715, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, March, 1911. 



In loose dry ground upon ledges of waterfalls or on sides 

 of deeply shaded precipices along the Lara river at about 

 500 feet altitude. 



Hypoestes puigarense Elm. n. sp. 



Loose suffrutescent tufts; stems few or several, subterete 

 or more often reclining upon the adjoining thickets, 1 to 2 

 m. high or long, usually few branched from the base and 

 more freely branched above the middle, terete, at most 8 

 mm. thick, dark green; branchlets slender, sparingly rebmnched, 

 the free ends drooping, tips subterete, angularly terete, op- 



