250 MERRILL. 



Scaevola mindorensis ^^p. iiov. § Enantiophylhini. 



Species pi-aecedenti valde affinis, differt fqliis pro rata latioribus, mar- 

 gine distincte sinuato-dentatis, subtiis plus minus pubescentibus, ramulis 

 leviter pilosis, inflorescentiis floribusque dense pubescentibus. 



A scandent herbaceous vine similar to Scaevola acumimttissima, differ- 

 ing in the points above indicated. Branches brown oi' grajdsh, striate, 

 pilose, the younger ones rather densely so. Leaves ovate-oblong, mem- 

 branaceous, 5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, base acute, apex slenderly 

 subcaudate-acuminate, margins distinctly sinuate-dentate, the lower sur- 

 face with numerous, short, scattered, spreading hairs, the upper surface 

 glabrous or with very few hairs. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1 to 2 cm 

 long, densely pubescent, each usually bearing three tlowers, and also two 

 much reduced leaves at the apex, the pedicels about 5 mm in length, the 

 bracteoles 1.5 mm long. Flowers yellow, 5-merous. Calyx-tube 4 mm 

 long, rather densely pubescent, the lobes 5, lanceolate, about 5 mm long, 

 1.3 to 1.4 mm wide, acuminate. Corolla outside rather strongly pubes- 

 cent, villous within, 2.2 cm long, the lobes 8 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide, 

 3-nerved, the tube 15-nerved. Filamants glabrous. Style glabrous, 13 

 mm long, the cup surrounding the stigma not only densely ciliate on the 

 margins, but also with numerous long white cilia on the outside. 



MiNDORO, Mount Sablayan, For. Bur. 9756 Merritt, March 2, 1908, on the 

 exposed cleared summit at an altitude of about 1,000 m. 



Specimens sent to Kew for comparison were reported as '"nearest S. similis 

 Hemsl., but with longer peduncles." It differs also from that species, as described, 

 in its 5-merous, not 4-merovis, nnich larger flowers and its different calyx-teeth. 



Scaevola sericea Forst. Prodr. (1786) 89; Presl Rel. llaenk. 2 (1830) 57; 

 DC. Prodr. 7 (1839) 506. 



Luzon, Haenke in Herb. Mus. Kiinigr. Bohnien, Prague: Province of ] locos 

 Sur, Salomague, MerHll 339. 



This species is apparently niucli less common in the Pliilippines than is 

 *S'. koenigii Vahl, and is to me sufficiently distinct from Vahl's species to warrant 

 being given specific rank, although recent authors have treated it as a synonym 

 of S. koenigii Vahl. It differs from S. koenigii in being pubescent throughout, the 

 inflorescence very densely so. I have what is apparently the same form from 

 Java, and from the Caroline Islands, Yap, Volkens J33, distributed as K. koenigii 

 Vahl. 



Scaevola micrantha Presl Rel. Ilaenk. 2 (1830) 59; INliq. Fl. liul. I'.at. 2 

 (1856) 582; 1\-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 121. 



Luzo.v, Province of Albay, on barren rocky hills, altitude about 120 iii, near 

 Calanaga, Batan Island, Bur. Sci. 6289 Rohitison, August 23, 1908. I have also 

 examined the type in the herbarium of the iluseum dcs Kiinigieichs Bohmen, 

 Prague, and find it to be quite the same as the specimen collected by Doctor 

 Robinson. Ilaenke's specimen probably came from what is now the Province 

 of Albay, or from Sorsogon. 



The species is a very distinct one, as indicated by Presl. It is, perhaps, most 

 closely iillicil Id N. iihniiirri \';ilil. l-iil ils llowcrs arc less lliaii 1 cm in Iciigtli. 



