X, c, 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 345 



about 2.5 mm long, 1 to 1.2 mm wide. Capsule oblong, 6 mm 

 long, 2 mm wide, glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams 37, October, 1903 

 (type), Merrill 3119, October, 1903, Whitford 493, July, 1904, on damp 

 shaded banks along the stream at an altitude of 150 meters or less. 



One of the specimens {Whitford 493) was identified by the late C. B. 

 Clarke as Lepidagathis incurva Don (L. hyalina Nees), but it seems to me 

 to be specifically distinct from that species. The brown or brown-purplish 

 color of the spikes is characteristic. It is the form previously reported 

 by me as Lepidagathis incurva Don." 



LEPIDAGATHIS SUBINTERRUPTA sp. nov. 



Herba parva, prostrata, ramis floriferis suberectis, vix 10 cm 

 altis, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra ; foliis parvis, oblongis, usque 

 ad 2.5 cm longis, breviter petiolatis, obtusis vel obscure acumi- 

 natis; spicis terminalibus, gracilibus, plus minusve interrup- 

 tis, solitariis vel subfasciculatis, terminalibus, usque ad 5 cm 

 longis; calycis segmentis bracteisque leviter ciliatis capitato- 

 glandulosisque. 



A small prostrate herb, glabrous except the inflorescence, the 

 stems 4-angled, slender, rooting at the nodes, the flowering 

 branches erect or suberect, 10 cm high or less. Leaves in equal 

 pairs, mostly oblong, chartaceous, 1 to 2.5 cm long, 4 to 8 mm 

 wide, glabrous, somewhat shining, paler on the lower surface 

 than on the upper, both surfaces with small scattered cystoliths, 

 the base acute or somewhat decurrent-acuminate, the apex obtuse 

 or obscurely acuminate; petioles 1 to 3 mm long. Spikes term- 

 inal, solitary or at most three together, slender, interrupted, 1 to 

 5 cm long, about 5 mm in diameter, the flowers somewhat scat- 

 tered. Bracts and bracteoles similar, lanceolate, acuminate, 3 

 to 4 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, 1-nerved, slightly ciliate and 

 capitate-glandular. Calyx-segments 5, 3 to 4 mm long, ob- 

 scurely ciliate and slightly capitate-glandular, one about 1.2 mm 

 wide, the other four similar but less than 1 mm wide. Corolla 

 white, 4 mm long, the tube not contracted, the upper lip 1.5 mm 

 long, 1.1 mm wide, rounded or very obscurely retuse, the 

 lower one 3-lobed, the lobes about 1 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, 

 obtuse. Capsule glabrous, 4 mm long, the seeds brown, about 

 1 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Isabela, San Luis, Bur. Sci. 8024 Ramos, May, 1909, 

 on bowlders along shaded streams. 



A species probably most closely allied to Lepidagathis laxa Nees, differing 

 especially in its much smaller leaves. 



'"Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 125. 



