978 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
opposite; nerves oblique, 5 to 7 on each side of the pro- 
nounced more or less brown colored midrib, ending in coarse 
reticulations; petioles brownish, glabrous, varying from 1 to 
3 cm. long; stipule also glabrous, forming an interpetiolar 
rim, terminating into 3 rather short setiform segments. In- 
floreseence terminal or subterminal, profusely paniculate; pe- 
duncles strict, ascending, glabrous, solitary or in 3’s, 3 to 5 
em. long, branched from above the middle; branches and 
pedicels also glabrous, subtented by bracts; pedicels spread- 
ing, usually in 3’s, 3 mm. long, slender, subtented by apicu- 
late bracteoles; calyx entirely glabrous, 3 mm. long, subcam- 
panulate, the 4 acute segments 1 mm. long; corolla tubular, 
creamy white or slightly purple at the base, odorless, 9 mm. 
long, glabrous without, pilose within especially in the throat; 
segments 4, oblongish, obtuse at the apex, 4 mm. long with 
yellow crisp hairs on the upper side; stamens 4, inverted 
upon the corolla throat; filaments glabrous, flattened, less than 
0.5 mm. long; anthers versatile, at least 1 mm. long, oblong 
with obtuse ends; style glabrous, exerted, with forked. style 
arms; stigmas woolly; ovary glabrous, 2-celled with 2 clus- 
ters of ovules, with an apical disk; old cocci 4 mm. long, 
broadly ellipsoid or rather obovoidly ellipsoid; seeds not seen. 
Type specimen 12311, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
An undershrub in clayey soil of a forested ridge at 
1500 feet. The natives or Visayan call it “‘Libatra.’’ 
Distinguished from H. elmeri Merr. by the thinner more 
acuminate and differently shaped leaves, more distant vena- 
tion, much looser panicles and slenderer flowers. 
Hedyotis subvelutina Elm. n. sp. 
Herbs, nearly 1 m. high; stem green, angular, pubescent; 
branches widely branched, opposite, the younger portion 
grayish tomentose. . Leaves soft membranous, flat, deeper green 
above, pubescent on both sides or the basal lower surface 
velutinous, diverse in size, oblong to elliptish lanceolate, acute 
at both ends especially toward the apex, margins entire, the 
larger blades 12 cm. long, 6 cm. wide across the middle; 
nerves 5 to 8, much ascending, gradually curved, rather faint, 
