XIII. c.i Merrill: Philippine Plants, XI 11 59 



slightly inequilateral, acute, the upper surface sparingly stel- 

 late-pubescent on the midrib and nerves or ultimately glabrous, 

 the lower surface with more numerous stellate hairs, rarely 

 largely confined to the midrib and nerves, more commonly scat- 

 tered over the entire surface; lateral nerves slender, not prom- 

 inent, curved, anastomosing, about 5 on each side of midrib; 

 petioles rather densely stellate-tomentose with cinereous hairs, 

 1 to 2 cm long, unarmed. Cymes extra-axillary and terminal, 

 about 3 cm long, peduncled, rather few-flowered, stellate-tomen- 

 tose. Flowers violet, about 8 mm long, their pedicels up to 5 

 mm in length. Calyx somewhat campanulate, sparingly or ra- 

 ther densely stellate-tomentose, about 3 mm long, the lobes 

 oblong-ovate, acute or subobtuse, about 1.5 mm long. Corolla 

 sparingly stellate-tomentose externally, the tube short, the lobes 

 oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, about 

 6 mm long. Anthers lanceolate, somewhat narrowed upward, 

 obtuse, 4 mm long. Fruit globose, glabrous, smooth, fleshy, red 

 when fresh, about 6 mm in diameter ; seeds few, flattened, about 

 3 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 264-87 Ramoa 

 & Edano, August 3, 1916, along small streams in open places at low 

 altitudes. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Solanum retrorsum Elm., 

 from which, among numerous other characters, it is distinguished by its 

 indumentum and especially by its short, scattered, straight, spreading 

 spines. I refer here also the following specimens: Luzon, Pangasinan 

 Province, Bautista, Merrill s. n., July, 1903; Umingan, Bur. Sci. 17710 

 Otanes, April 17, 1914. 



Var. GLABRUM var. nov. 



A typo differt omnibus partibus glabris. 



Luzon, Pampanga Province, Calumpit, Merrill 4237 (type), September, 

 1905; Tarlac Province, Gerona, Guerrero s. n., April, 1906. 



ACANTHACEAE 



HEMIGRAPHIS Nees 

 HEMIGRAPHIS VIRIDIS sp. nov. 



Caule herbaceo, erecto, usque ad 50 cm alto, ramis tetragonis 

 vel sulcatis, minute strigosis; foliis subaequalibus, lanceolatis 

 ad anguste lanceolatis, in siccitate viridis, nitidis, usque ad 9 

 cm longis, margine undulatis, basi obtusis, sursum angustatis et 

 longissime obtuse acuminatis, cystolithis subtus nullis, supra 

 numerosis, magnis, jam oculo nudo distinctis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 10, subtus strigosis; spicis circiter 3, pedunculatis, 2.5 



