346 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 



LEPIDAGATHIS MACGREGORII sp. nov. 



Species L. laxae Nees ut videtur afRnis, differt foliis oblongo- 

 ovatis, multo majoribus, usque ad 12 cm longis, 5 cm latis, floribus 

 4-meris, spicis longioribus, calycis segmentis bracteisque leviter 

 ciliatis, vix glandulosis. 



Erect, nearly glabrous, the branches quadrangular, slender, 

 often somewhat puberulent at the nodes, reddish-brown. Leaves 

 in equal pairs, membranaceous, glabrous, oblong-ovate, 10 to 12 

 cm long, 4.5 to 5 cm wide, somewhat shining when dry, slightly 

 paler on the lower surface than on the upper, the base rather 

 abruptly and shortly decurrent-acuminate, the apex acute or 

 slightly acuminate, margins somewhat undulate, both surfaces 

 with small, scattered cystoliths, the lower one sometimes slightly 

 puberulent along the midrib; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side 

 of the midrib, curved, anastomosing; petioles 1 cm long or less. 

 Spikes fasciculate, from one to three on each peduncle, the 

 peduncles very short or up to 4 cm in length, crowded in the 

 upper axils, the spikes slender, 2 to 6 cm long, 5 to 6 mm in 

 diameter. Bracts and bracteoles similar, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1-nerved, 4 to 5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, margins slightly ciliate 

 with short hairs, otherwise glabrous, not at all glandular. Calyx- 

 segments all acuminate, slightly ciliate on the margins, not gland- 

 ular, one lanceolate, 5 mm long, 1.3 mm wide, very obscurely 

 3-nerved, not reticulate, two linear-lanceolate, less than 1 mm 

 wide, the fourth cleft to within 2.5 mm of the base, the lobes lan- 

 ceolate, about 1 mm wide. Corolla apparently white, 5 mm long, 

 glabrous, the tube not or very slightly contracted, the upper lip 

 elliptic-ovate, slightly retuse, 1.5 mm wide, the lower one cleft into 

 three, oblong, obtuse lobes, about 2 mm long, 1 mm wide. 

 Anthers about 0.8 mm long. Capsule 4.5 mm long, glabrous 

 except the puberulent apex. 



MiNDORO, Baco River, McGregor 12S, March 15, 1905. 



A species well characterized by its slender, nearly p:labrous spikes; it is 

 similar to Lepidagathis laxa Nees in some respects, but differs from that 

 form in the points indicated in the diagnosis; from L. incurva Ham., to 

 which it is also manifestly allied, it differs in its slender, nearly glabrous 

 spikes. 



LEPIDAGATHIS HUMILIS sp. nov. 



Herba parva, plus minusve prostrata, ramis floriferis erectis 

 vix 10 cm altis; foliis in paribus inaequalibus, breviter petiolatis, 

 ovatis vel late ovatis, usque ad 2 cm longis, basi late truncatis, 

 rariter leviter cordatis vel decurrentibus ; spicis axillaribus termi- 

 nalibusque, solitariis, laxis, angustis, usque ad 5 cm longis, vix 5 

 mm latis, calycis lobis bracteisque vix ciliatis, leviter hispidis. 



