NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 229 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



BYTHOPHYTON Hook. f. 



Bythophyton indicum (Hk. f. & Tli.) Hk. f. FI. Brit. Iiul. 4 (1884) 28G. 



Micranthemum indicum Hk. f. & Tli. in Journ. Bot. 9 (1857) 245, t. 7 (excl. 

 fig. of anthers, fide Hooker f.) 



Luzox, District of Lepanto, Mount Data, Merrill .',.519, November, 1905, in 

 shallow water of a small pond at the summit, altitude about 2,250 m. 



A monotypic genus previously recorded only from the Nonkreem marshes, 

 Khasia Mountains, India, altitude about 1,400 m. I am indebted to the director 

 of the Royal Gardens, Kew, for the identification of the above specimen. 



ACANTHACE^. 



PERISTROPHE Nees. 



Peristrophe lancifolia sp. nov. 



Herba erecta vix vel parce ramosa, sparse strigosa ; foliis membran- 

 aceis, anguste lanceolatis, acuminatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 2.5 cm 

 latis; foliis floralibits oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis; corolla 

 alba, 5 cm longa. 



An erect herb about 50 cm high or less, usually unbranched. Stems 

 green, longitudinally sulcate, about 2 mm in diameter, glabrous, or the 

 younger parts slightly appressed-strigose. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly 

 lanceolate, 12 to 20 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, entire or very slightly 

 undulate, gradually narrowed upward to the long, slender, acuminate 

 apex, the base also narrowed, acute or acuminate, somewhat shining 

 when dry, the upper surface dark-gi-een, the lower surface pale-green, 

 both surfaces with numerous, scattered, oblong cystoliths, the lower also 

 minutely white-pnneticulate and slightly appressed-strigose on the midrib 

 and nerves ; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, ascending, 

 anastomosing and fonning a nearly straight submarginal nerve, the 

 secondary nerves and reticulations lax; petioles 5 mm long or less, stri- 

 gose. Peduncles few, 2.5 cm long or less, terminal and in the upper 

 axils, strigose, few-flowered. Floral leaves 2, unequal, oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, more or less strigose, especially 

 on the margins. Flowers white, congested, each subtended by one or 

 two linear-lanceolate, more or less hispid, long-acuminate bracts about 2 

 cm long, 2 mm wide, and by two or three similar but smaller bracteoles. 

 Calyx-lobes similar to the bracteoles, subequal, a))out 8 imn long, hispid. 

 Corolla 5 cm long, the tube slender, 2.5 cm in length, one lip entire, 1.5 

 cm broad, the other somewliat narrower and shortly 2-toothed at the 

 apex. Filaments slightly hirsute; antliers 2-celled, the upper cell about 

 3.5 mm long, the lower 2 mm long, muticous. Style minutely bifid. 



