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about 1.2 mm wide, two slightly less than 1 mm wide, the fourth 

 cleft to within about 1 mm of the base. Corolla pink, pubescent 

 outside, 5 mm long, the tube slightly narrowed upward, not 

 abruptly contracted, the upper lip about 1.3 mm wide, rounded 

 or very obscurely retuse, the lower one cleft into three obtuse 

 lobes about 1.2 mm long and 1 mm wide. Anthers 0.5 mm long, 

 the cells parallel. Capsule narrowly oblong-ovate, densely cine- 

 reous-pubescent with short hairs. 



MiNDORO, Bulalacao, in rocky soils along streams, altitude about 50 

 meters, Bur. Sci. 6702 Robinson, March 17, 1909. 



A species well characterized by its firm, short-petioled leaves which are 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, and by its narrow, dense, fasciculate 

 spikes, the bracts, bracteoles, and calyx-segments being rather densely 

 ciliate-pilose and capitate-glandular, and in its capsules being densely 

 cinereous-pubescent. 



LEPIDAGATHIS CLARKEI sp. nov. 



Species L. incurvae Don affinis differt spicis oblongis, solitariis 

 vel subsolitariis, bracteis majoribus, margine parce ciliatis ex- 

 ceptis glabris, in siccitate brunneis vel brunneo-purpureis. 



An erect herbaceous plant 20 to 30 cm high, not or but slightly 

 branched, the basal part rarely decumbent. Stems brown or 

 olivaceous, glabrous, slender, terete or slightly angled. Leaves 

 in equal pairs, ovate to oblong-ovate, membranaceous, greenish 

 when dry, slightly shining and somewhat paler on the lower sur- 

 face than on the upper, 5 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, the 

 base usually long and slenderly decurrent-acuminate, the apex 

 acute or obscurely acuminate, margins entire, both surfaces with 

 scattered, short cystoliths, glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 on 

 each side of the midrib, slender ; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long. Spikes 

 solitary, terminating the stem and the short, axillary branches, 

 the whole inflorescence appearing compound, the individual 

 spikes oblong, 2 to 5 cm long, about 1.5 cm in diameter, the 

 bracts lanceolate, long and slenderly acuminate, about 11 mm 

 long, 2 mm wide, brown or brown-purple when dry, 3-nerved, 

 with distinct transverse reticulations in the upper part, glabrous 

 except the slightly ciliate margins. Calyx-lobes all acuminate, 

 one lanceolate, 3-nerved, with transverse reticulations in the up- 

 per half, about 10 mm long, 2.1 mm wide, two linear, 9 mm long, 

 the fourth one cleft to within 4 mm of the base, the lobes about 

 2 mm wide, with a prominent midnerve and each with a pair of 

 marginal nerves, all the segments slightly ciliate on the margins, 

 otherwise glabrous. Corolla 8 mm long, white, glabrous, the tube 

 slightly constricted, the lobes four, subequal, oblong, obtuse, 



