346 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 



LEPIDAGATHIS MACGREGORII sp. nov. 



Species L. laxae Nees ut videtur affinis, 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 128, March 15, 1905. 



A species well characterized by its slender, nearly glabrous 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. 



