Marcu 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Srecies—I ~ 9699 
longer than the remaining 2; anther elliptic though trunc- 
ately rounded and at the apex pointed, versatile, 0.5 mm 
long; style as long as the stamens, also glabrous, slender, 
somewhat flattened above the middle though finely pointed 
at the apex; stigma terminal, very minute; ovule 4-lobed, 
glabrous. 
Type specimen number 13614, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1912. 
Observed in one or two places and then only in damp 
deeply humus covered fertile soil of densely shaded forested 
gullies at 3500 feet elevation between Duros and Cawilanan 
peaks.  ''Nabioda" in Manobo. 
Strongly resembling certain species of Scutellaria. 
Coleus sparsiflorus Elm. n. sp. 
Chiefly biennial herbs; stems branched below the mid- 
dle, decumbent or reclining toward the base and taking 
roots from the lower joints, crooked, 3 to 4 dm high, angular 
or striate, glabrate or puberulent, reddish or greenish and 
purplish spotted; branches erect or ascending, similar in 
vestiture and color, both drying nearly black, likewise re- 
branched; roots profuse, long and fibrous. Leaves diverse 
in size, opposite, lateral as well as terminal, scattered, soft 
membranous, flat, acute at the apex, base obtuse or acute, 
ovately oblong or subelliptie, entire below the middle, mar- 
gius above this with shallow erenate teeth or subentire, cu- 
ring nearly equally brown on both sides, glabrous, velvety 
green on the upper surface when fresh, reddish or purplish 
tinged beneath even so in the younger dry leaves, the aver- 
age blades 5 cm long by one half as wide across the mid. 
dle or a trifle below it, frequently smaller and occasionally 
larger; petiole varying from 1 to 2.5 em long, slender, fine- 
ly puberulent, when dry nearly black; midrib faint, cu- 
ring darker brown; lateral nerves 3 to 5 pairs, relatively ob- 
seure, ascendingly curved, tips anastomosing, with secondary 
intervening ones from the midrib, retieulations very faint. 
Inflorescence erect, reddish or purplish, 3 cm long, from is 
uppermost leaf axils; peduncles commonly 3 from the iist 
