232 MERRILL. 



pubescent, 3 to 4 mm long; stipules pubescent, ovate, persistent, 3 to 4 

 mm long, cut into six or more linear laciniae. Cymes terminal and in 

 the upper axils, small, dense, comparatively few-flowered, subsessile or 

 the axillary ones sometimes with peduncles up to 1.5 cm in length, all 

 parts more or less pubescent, the bracts foliaceous, spatulate, 5 to 6 mm 

 long, the pedicels usually about 1 mm in length. Calyx-tube ovoid, 

 pubescent, 2 mm long, the lobes visually 4, lanceolate, acuminate, pubes- 

 cent, 3 mm long. Corolla apparently white, 6 mm long, the tube 4 mm 

 in length, cylindric, glabrous outside, villous within, usually with 4 lobes, 

 rarely with 3 or 5, the lobes oblong, obtuse or acute, 2 mm long, reflexed 

 in anthesis, slightly strigose on the back. Anthers 1.2 mm long. Style 

 3.5 mm long, cleft at the apex. Capsule ovoid, 3.5 mm long, somewhat 

 strigose-pubescent, the seeds black, compressed, angular, irregular, 1.2 to 

 1.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai, Bm\ Scl. 8490 McGregor, June, 1900 

 (type), Bur. Sci. JfJfTS Mearns, August, 1907. 



Apparently a species of the mossy forest, allied to Jlcdyotis henguetenMs Elm., 

 and other species of that group, but well characterized by its strigose pubescence. 



Hedyotis pilosissima sp. nov. 



Frutex vel suffrutex erectus, simplex, vix 1 m altus, omnibus partibus 



plus minus dense pilosus; foliis chartaceis vel submembranaceis, oblongo- 



-lanceolatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 16 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 



acutis, nervis 6 vel 7 utrinque, adscendentibus ; stipulis amplis, laciniatis; 



cymis in axillis dense congestis, subcapitatis, dense multifloris. 



An erect unbranched suffrutescent or decidedly woody undershrub less 

 than 1 m high, the stems terete, about 6 mm in diameter, brownish or 

 grayish, densely pilose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 12 

 to 16 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 

 greenish when dry, somewhat shining, the apex acuminate, base acute, 

 both surfaces with numerous, long, white hairs, especially so on the 

 midrib and nerves on the under surface; nerves 6 or 7 on each side of 

 the midrib, distinct, ascending, not or obscurely anastomosing, the sec- 

 ondary nerves and the reticulations obsolete; petioles pilose, 1.5 to 2 cm 

 long; stipules ample, green, somewhat pilose, up to 1.5 cm long, 1.2 

 cm wide, cut iuto about 12, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate laciniae 3 to 

 5 mm in lengtli, the mirldlo one longer. Cymes axillary, more or less 

 pilose, congested, forming subglobose or hcmisplierical inflorescences 1 to 

 2 cm in diameter. Flowers 4-merous, their pedicels u]) to 2 nini in 

 length, sometimes wanting, the bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm 

 long. Calyx-tube ovoid, glabrous, about 1.2 mm long, the lobes green, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm h)ng, the margins ciliato with long white 

 hairs. Corolla-tiibe 2 mm long, the lobes about the same length, olilong, 

 recurved, nsually acute. Anthers 1 mm long. Capsule globose or ovoid, 

 glabrous except for Die fe.w luiirs on (lie persistent calyx-lobes, about 2 



