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numerous, fascicled, up to 5 cm in length, dense, many-flowered, 

 ciliate-pilose with white hairs. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, about 4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, imbricate, prominently 

 ciliate-pilose with white hairs as are the sepals. Sepals 5, four 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 4 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, the 

 other as long but twice as wide. Corolla at least 5 mm long, 

 the lobes subfequal, rounded. Capsule oblong-lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed upward, 4-angled, about 5 mm long, slightly puberulent 

 toward the apex ; seeds 4.1 mm in diameter, the margins rather 

 prominently ciliate. 



Palawan, Taytay, Merrill 9760, April, 1913, in dry thickets along trails 

 at sea level. 



Perhaps as closely allied to Lepidagathis mindorensis Merr. as any other 

 species, but the indumentum not at all capitate-glandular and the leaves 

 entirely different in shape, not rounded or cordate at the base and with 

 short petioles, but long decurrent-acuminate and long-petioled. 



LEPIDAGATHIS MINDORENSIS sp. nov. 



Herba erecta circiter 20 cm alta; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 subcoriaceis, glabris, usque ad 9 cm longis, basi late rotundatis 

 vel subcordatis, supra sensim angustatis, obtusis vel obscure ob- 

 tuse acuminatis, breviter petiolatis; spicis terminalibus dense 

 fasciculatis, 2 ad 4 cm longis, angustis, densis, calycis segmentis 

 bracteisque capitato-glandulosis, plus minusve dense ciliato-pilo- 

 sis ; capsulis dense cinereo-pubescentibus. 



An erect herb about 20 cm high, somewhat branched, the basal 

 parts of the stems somewhat woody, terete, glabrous, grayish- 

 brown, the younger parts distinctly 4-angled, brown, more or 

 less densely covered with weak, crisp, brownish hairs. Leaves 

 in equal pairs, oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 5 to 9 cm long, 

 2 to 3 cm wide, widest in the lower part, gradually narrowed 

 upward to the blunt, or slightly blunt-acuminate apex, the base 

 broad, rounded or subcordate, margins slightly undulate, the 

 upper surface glabrous and shining, the lower when young some- 

 what puberulent on the midrib and nerves; nerves slender, dis- 

 tinct beneath, anastomosing and forming a submarginal nerve; 

 petioles pubescent, 2 to 4 mm long. Spikes terminal, fasciculate, 

 many at the apex of each branch, crowded, 2 to 5 cm long, less 

 than 5 mm in diameter, the bracts and calyx-segments rather 

 densely ciliate-pilose, with numerous glandular-capitate hairs 

 intermixed. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, slenderly long-acumi- 

 nate, about 4 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, 1-nerved. Calyx-seg- 

 ments all 1-nerved, slenderly acuminate, narrowly lanceolate, one 



