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cate, somewhat acuminate, persistent and somewhat accrescent 

 in fruit, attaining a length of 2.5 cm, longitudinally 7-nerved, 

 somewhat reticulate. Flowers sessile, white, 4.5 to 5 cm long, 

 calyx about 12 mm long, at first 2-lob6d, ultimately equally 5- 

 lobed, the lobes oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, 3 mm long. 

 Corolla tube conspicuously pilose externally with long, weak 

 hairs, the lower 18 mm narrow, cylindric, then widened. Fila- 

 ments 12 mm long, glabrous, the anthers 2 mm in length, con- 

 nate. Staminodes filiform, glabrous, 5 to 6 mm long. Disk 

 cylindric, glabrous, nearly 3 mm long, slightly crenulate. Ovary 

 glabrous, the styles slightly pilose, the stigma oblique, 1 mm 

 long, 3 mm wide. Fruit oblong, subcylindric, glabrous, 1.5 to 

 2 cm long. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 36937 

 (type), 3674-2 Ramos & Edano, October and November, 1919. 

 Along streams in damp forests at low altitudes. 



A species strongly characterized by its unbranched habit; by 

 its opposite, subequal, long-petioled, entire leaves ; and especially 

 by its peculiar inflorescences which are axillary, short-peduncled, 

 supplied with two conspicuous, persistent bracts subtending the 

 usually three sessile flowers. The species is entirely glabrous 

 except the conspicuously pilose corollas. It does not appear to 

 be closely allied to any previously described species of the genus 

 and is aberrant in the various sections of the genus as defined 

 by C. B. Clarke, although apparently coming nearest to the sec- 

 tion Coccineae. 



ACANTHACEAE 



HYPOESTES R. Brown 

 HYPOESTES MINDORENSIS sp. nov. 



Planta erecta, suffruticosa, ramosa, circiter 1 m alta, ramulis 

 puberulis; foliis ovatis, membranaceis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, utrin- 

 que plus minusve puberulis, sursum angustatis, apice tenuiter 

 acute acuminatis, basi late subtruncato-rotundatis, nervis utrin- 

 que circiter 8; inflorescentiis puberulis, floribus subdistiche dis- 

 positis, bracteis 15 mm longis, lanceolatis, caudato-acuminatis, 

 sursum distincte ciliatis, deorsum (4 mm) connatis, bracteis 

 interioribus circiter 10 mm longis, acuminatis; bracteolis 1 mm 

 longis; calycis lobis membranaceis, 2 mm longis, lanceolatis; co- 

 rollae tubo 7 mm longo, lobis 11 ad 13 mm longis, angustioribus 

 1 mm latis, latioribus oblongo-obovatis, 5 mm latis. 



An erect, branched, suffrutescent or distinctly woody plant 

 about 1 m high, the branches glabrous, the branchlets more or 



