340 The Philippine Journal of Science wis 



reticulations, and its short, many-flowered, mostly fascicled, racemose 

 inflorescence. 



LINOCIERA PALUDOSA King & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74* 

 (1905) 268. 



Palawan, Taytay, Merrill 9177, 9335, Phil. PI. 1373 (as L. euphlebia 

 Merr.), April, May, 1913. 



The specimens are not quite identical with King's collector 6It76 from 

 Larut, Malay Peninsula, a duplicate of one of the specimens cited in the 

 original description. I can, however, detect no essential differences and 

 prefer to consider the Philippine form under King & Gamble's specific name. 



Previously known only from the Malay Peninsula. 



BORAGINACEAE 



HELIOTROPIUM Linnaeus 



HELIOTROPIUM OVALIFOLiUM Forsk. var. DEPRESSUM (Cham.) 



Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 134. 

 Heliotr opium gracile R. Br. var. depressum Cham, in Linnaea (1829) 



457. 

 Heliotropium coromandelinum Retz. var. depressum A. DC. Prodr. 9 



(1845) 542. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Calamba, along the shores of Lake Bay, 

 F. C. Gates 6651, July 27, 1913. 



This species, other than the record of F.-Villar, sub H. coromandelinum 

 Retz., is new to the Philippines. The specimen cited above agrees in all 

 essentials with otir Guam material, the type of the variety depressum, being 

 from Guam. It differs from the Indian material notably in its relatively 

 longer and much narrower leaves. Forskal's specific name dates from the 

 year 1775, Retzius's name from the year 1781. 



India, Tropical Africa, and Australia, the variety in Luzon and the 

 Mariana Islands (Guam). 



GESNERIACEAE 



TRICHOSPORUM D. Don 

 TRICHOSPORUM BAKERI sp. nov. § Holocalyx. 



Scandens, ramulis junioribus plus minusve pilosus ; foliis coria- 

 ceis, in siccitate pallidis, ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, usque ad 4.5 

 cm longis, obtusis vel late obscure obtuseque acuminatis, basi 

 rotundatis, nervis lateralibus circiter 3, obscurissimis vel obso- 

 letis; floribus glaberrimis, 5.5 cm longis, corolla quam calycis 

 duplo longioribus. 



Scandent, slender, elongated, the stems terete, grayish, 

 wrinkled, 3 mm in diameter or less, rooting at the nodes, spar- 

 ingly branched, the younger branchlets rather densely villous. 

 Leaves numerous, when fresh apparently fleshy, when dry co- 

 riaceous or subcoriaceous, pale, dull or slightly shining, the 



