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less ascending, glabrous or nearly so, none of the branches more 

 than 1 mm in diameter. Leaves orbicular to orbicular-ovate, 5 

 to 10 mm long, rounded, entire, olivaceous, the upper surface with 

 rather numerous, irregularly scattered cystoliths, the lower sur- 

 face slightly hispid on the midrib and nerves ; lateral nerves 2 or 

 3 on each side of the midrib, not prominent. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary, ebracteolate, about 1.3 cm long, sessile. Calyx segments 

 nearly free, about* 6.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide or less, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. Corolla white or faintly tinged with blue, 

 the lower 6 mm of the tube slender, cylindric, then broadened; 

 lobes 5, subequal, orbicular, about 3 mm in diameter. Filaments 

 bearded; anthers 1 mm long. Capsules narrowly oblong, acute 

 or slightly acuminate, glabrous, about 9 mm long, 1.5 mm in 

 diameter. Seeds about 12, orbicular-elliptic. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 

 Bur. Sci. 33031 (type), 3297 A Ramos, August 30, 1918, on dry 

 open banks, the leaves when fresh reddish-purple beneath. 



This species belongs in the group with Hemigraphis reptans 

 Nees and is most closely allied to H. fruticulosa C. B. Clarke. 

 It is well characterized by its unusually small, orbicular, entire 

 leaves ; by its axillary, solitary, and ebracteolate flowers ; and by 

 being glabrous or nearly so throughout. 



COMPOSITAE 



VERNON I A Schreber 

 VERNONIA GLANDULIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis junioribus bracteisque exceptis gla- 

 ber; foliis lanceolatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis vel oblongo-ellip- 

 ticis, subcoriaceis, 4 ad 7 cm longis, basi acutis, apice acutis vel 

 leviter acuminatis, subtus minute et dense glanduloso-punctatis, 

 nervis utrinque 6 ad 8, distinctis ; capitulis paucis, solitariis vel 

 binis, circiter 2 cm longis, multifloris, bracteis pubescentibus, in- 

 terioribus circiter 1 cm longis. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the very young branchlets 

 and the involucral bracts, the branches grayish-brown when 

 dry, not lenticellate, the slender branchlets dark reddish-brown. 

 Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, subcoria- 

 ceous, olivaceous when dry, entire, 4 to 7 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, 

 subequally narrowed to the acute base and the acute or slightly 

 acuminate apex, the lower surface rather densely and minutely 

 glandular-punctate, the numerous glands sunk in minute pits; 

 lateral nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anas- 

 tomosing ; petioles 5 mm long or less. Heads few, solitary or in 



