350 MERRILL. 



tioles puberulent, slender, 1 to 2 cm long. Racemes terminal, 

 puberulent, comparatively few-flowered, 2 to 5 cm long. Flowers 

 opposite, pale-blue; pedicels puberulent, 2 to 3 mm long; brac- 

 teoles oblong-spatulate, obtuse, about 2 mm long. Calyx slightly 

 puberulent, the lips rounded, about 2.2 mm long, the appendage 

 convex, nearly 2 mm in diameter, accrescent and in fruit 5 to 6 

 mm in diameter. Corolla 12 to 13 mm long, enlarged upward, 

 slightly curved, slightly ciliate on the outside. Nutlets about 1.6 

 mm long, minutely verruculose. 



Mindanao, District of Cotabato, Weber 1512 (type), Au^st, 1911, on 

 damp rocky banks of streams, altitude about 135 m : District of Zamboanga, 

 Sax River, Copeland 1597, February, 1905, Merrill 8210, November, 1911, 

 on cliffs and boulders along streams, altitude 100 to 150 m. 



A species manifestly allied to Scutellaria indica Linn., differing especially 

 in its stems, leaves, etc. being slightly puberulent, not villous, and its 

 somewhat smaller flowers. 



SOLANACEAE. 



SOLAN UM L. 

 SOLANUM EPIPHYTICUM sp. nov. 



Frutex epiphyticus, glaber vel subglaber, simplex vel leviter 

 ramosis, ramis griseis, nitidis, teretibus, in siccitate plus minusve 

 sulcatis vel angulatis; foliis membranaceis, geminis, altero 

 oblongo , acuminato, usque ad 17 cm longo, altero ovato, baud 5 

 cm longo; floribus 5-meris, axillaribus, 1 ad 5 fasciculatis, pedi- 

 cellis 1 ad 2 cm longis; calycis truncatis; fructibus globosis, 

 seminibus 2 vel 3, obovatis, minute rugosis. 



An epiphytic glabrous or subglabrous, simple or slightly 

 branched shrub usually less than 1 m in length. Stem pale-gray, 

 somewhat shining, stout, when dry somewhat striate or angled, 

 often a little zigzag, in life somewhat fleshy. Leaves membra- 

 naceous, shining, in pairs at each node, one very much larger and 

 of different shape than the other: Larger leaves of each pair 

 oblong, 10 to 17 cm long, often slightly falcate, acuminate, base 

 strongly inequilateral, acute or acuminate; nerves 5 to 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions indistinct ; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Smaller leaves of each 

 pair ovate, 2 to 5 cm long, shortly and abruptly acuminate, acute, 

 or obtuse, base usually rounded, subequilateral ; petioles 2 to 5 

 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in fascicles of from 2 to 

 5, pedicelled, the pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, slender, slightly thick- 

 ened upward. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, not at all toothed, 

 about 2 mm long. Corolla white, 6 to 7 mm long, the tube short, 



