]38 ME. H. N. EIDLEY ON PLANTS 



Plant about a span high or less. Leaves 7-13x4-10 mm., fairly evenly distributed 

 up the stem, drying brownish ; petioles at most 3 mm. long, usually less. Spicasters 

 eventually up to 10 cm. in length (including the peduncle), though sometimes shorter, 

 slender, each bearing several verticillasters ; bracts exceedingly small, subulate, not 

 exceeding 1 mm. in length ; pedicels mostly 4-5 mm. long, in the flowering stage 

 ascending or patent. Calyx in flower slightly oblique at the base, 2-5 mm. long ; upper 

 lobe 1'5 mm. long and as much across, the remaining lobes a trifle shorter, in fruit 

 slightly exceeding 6 mm. in length, upper lobe 2x3 mm. ; lateral lobes 2-25 x '75 mm., 

 fruit lobes a trifle longer than the lateral, 1*5 mm. wide, incurved. Tube of corolla 

 55 mm. long, 1*5 mm. wide; lower lip barely 4 mm. long; side lobes of upper lip 

 1-5x1 mm.; back lobes I'Sxl'S mm. Filaments exserted nearly 5 ram. kStyle G mm. 

 long, glabrous. 



Differs from P. parvifioi^us, Willd. chiefly in foliage and the minute bracts. 



Var. MAJOR, S. Moore, var. nov. 



Folia majora, circa 2xl"5-l*8 cm. ; petioli 7-15 mm. longi. Bracteie ovalse, obtusse, 



dorso ]nloso-pubescentes, usque ad 4 mm. longae, diutule persistentes. 

 Camps VIII to IX, 4900 to 5500 ft. 

 Identical in flowers with the type. 



CoLEUS scUTELLARioiDES, Bcnth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 16. 

 Camps III to VI h, 2500 to 3900 ft. 

 Distrib. Indian Archipelago, Australia, Polynesia. 



Scutellaria luzonica, Ptolfe, in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. xxi. (1884) 315. 

 Camps IX to XI, 5600 to 8300 ft. 

 Distrib. Philippine Islands. 



APETAL^. 



(By H. N. Ridley.) 



NYCTAGINE^E. 

 PisoNiA LONGiROSTRis, Tcysm. & Binn. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. (1863) 40. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. ; Camp I, 700 ft. 

 Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



PisoNiA MuELLERiANA, Warb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiii. (1891) 304. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. " Elowers pale greenish." 

 Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. 



