NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 251 



Scaevola pedunculata sp. nov. 



Species S. inicranthae affinis, seel differt ramulis foliis inflovescentiisque 

 glabris, axillis barbatis exceptis, foliis longioril)us, cymis longe pedimcu- 

 latis, fioribus paiilo longioribiis. 



A shrub 2 to 4 m liigh, erect, nearly gial)rous, axils excepted. Branches 

 terete, smooth, olivaceous, glabrous, the axils of the leaves and pedun- 

 cles densely bearded with long white hairs. Leaves distant, scat- 

 tered, chartaceous or submembranaceous, narrowly oblong-obovate or 

 oblong-oblanceolate, glabrous and shining on both surfaces, 6 to 10 cm 

 long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, the apex broad, rounded or very slightly and 

 obscurely acuminate, gradually narrowed from the upper third to the 

 base, the petiolar part about 1 cm long; nerves about 8 on each side of 

 the midrib, indistinct. Cymes axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves, 

 glabrous except the densely bearded axils of the branches and bracts, 

 the peduncles about 5 cm long, each bearing at its apex two linear-lance- 

 olate to subspatulate 1 to 1.5 cm long bracts, and four pi-imary branches 

 about 1.5 cm long, the branches in turn bracteate at their apices and 

 bearing usually four shorter branchlets, the ultimate ones bearing usually 

 three flowers, a central sessile one, and two lateral pedicellate ones, the 

 bracteoles about 5 mm long. Flowers white. Calyx 2.5 mm long, gla- 

 brous, the five teeth broadly ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. Corolla 1 

 cm long, slightly curved, somewhat pubescent outside but not densely so, 

 pilose inside, the lobes about 4 mm long, with broad, thin, infolded 

 margins. Style slightly silky, the indusium surrounding the stigma 

 densely ciliate. Drupe glabrous, obscurely costate, about 3 mm long. 



Palawan, on rocky river banks, altitude about 175 ni. Mount Victoria, Bur. 

 Sci. 7U Foxworthy, March 25, 1906. 



A species manifestly allied to S. micrantha Presl, but apparently sufficiently 

 distinct, recognizable by its somewhat larger leaves, long pediincled cymes, the 

 axils of the peduncles, leaves, bracts and bracteoles densely bearded with long 

 white hairs, the plant otherwise glabrous or nearly so. 



Scaevola pedunculata var. mollis var. nov. 



A typo differt omnibus partibus dense breviter pubescentibus. 



Palawan, Mount Victoria, altitude about 1,000 m, Bur. i^ci. 100 Foxworthy, 

 March 23, 1906. 



The specimen on which the above variety is based in all essential characters 

 is the same as the type, differing in being softly and rather densely pubescent 

 throughout with short grayish hairs. The flowers appear to be quite the same 

 as in the species, but the fruits are slightly pubescent. Additional material may 

 show this form to be worthy of specific rank, but it is considered best for the 

 present to consider it as a variety only. It is apparently more closely allied to 

 S. micrantha Presl than is the species, but differs from Presl's species in all the 

 characters indicated for 8. pedunculata except in its pubescence, and in this 

 it is very decidedly more pubescent than is S. micrantha Presl. Logically, if 

 Scaevola .^ericea Forst. is to be considered specifically distinct from »S'. Jcoenif/ii 



