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simple or dichotomoiisly branched at the apex, each bearing from 2 to 

 6 follicles. Follicles cylindric, glabrous, longitudinally striate, about 3 

 mm in diameter, 20 to 40 cm long, pendulous. Seeds flattened, oblong, 

 G mm long, 1.5 mm wide, covered with short, brown liairs, both ends with 

 numerous, long, brown hairs 7 mm in length or less. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, Paracale, For. Bur. 18726 Darling, INIaicIi 19, 

 1910, in forests at an altitude of about 70 m, locally known as batino. 



A species closely allied to Alstonia macrophylla Wall., but with smaller, some- 

 what differently shaped leaves which have fewer lateral nerves. 



CONVOLVULACE^. 



DICHONDRA Forst. 



Dichondra repens Forst. Char. Gen. PI. (177G) 39, t. 20; DC. Prodr. 9 

 (1855) 451. 



Sibthorpia evolvulacea Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 288. 



Dichondra evolvulacea Britton in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club. 5 (1894) 268. 



Luzon, District of Bontoc, Bauco, dry hillsides, altitude about 1,300 m, 

 Father M. Vanoverbergh 19, January, 1910, locally known to the Ilocanos as 

 napalapayag. 



The genus is new to the Philippines, the present species being widely distributed 

 in tropical, subtropical and subtemperate regions of the world. 



VERBENACE^. 



PYGMAEOPREMNA gen. nov. 



Calyx paiTLis, anguste campanulatus sub anthesi regulariter 5-dentatus, 

 sub fructu auctus, 2-lobatus, lobo altero 2-dentato; altero 3-dentato. 

 Corollae tubus brevis, cylindraceus, rectus, breviter exsertus; limbus 

 distincte 2-labiatus, lobo minore exteriore, integro, lobo majore interiore, 

 3-lobato, fauce intus parce villoso. Stamina 4, subaequalia, tubo afiixa, 

 quam corolla breviora ; antherae ovatae, loculis parallelis vix'divergentibus. 

 Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis; stylus apice brevissime 2-fidus. 

 Drupa parva, calyce insidens, obovoidea, excentrica, exocarpio carnoso, 

 tenui, endocarpio duro, indiviso, saepissime 1-loeulare vel rarius obscure 

 2-loculare. Semina oblonga, compressa, exalbuminosa. Suffruticosa, 

 parva, erecta, parce ramosa, sparse pubescens. Folia opposita, simplicia, 

 Integra. Cymae parvae, breves, terminales vel in axillis superioribus 

 pedunculatae. Flores parvi, albi vel virido-albi. 



Pygmaeopremna humilis sp. nov. 



Suffrutex erectus, usque ad 15 cm altus; foliis obovato-oblongis, opposi- 

 tis, breviter petiolatis, membranaceis vel subchartaceis, acutis vel brevissime 

 acuminatis, integris, basi acutis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 6, distantibus, distinctis; inflorescentiis terminalibus axillari- 

 busque, usque ad 2 cm longis, puberulis; floribus parvis, circiter 4.5 mm 

 lonffis. 



