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less puberulent. Leaves ovate, membranaceous, 6 to 9 cm long, 

 3.5 to 5 cm wide, both surfaces more or less puberulent, at least 

 along the midrib and lateral nerves, the upper surface dark 

 olivaceous, the lower pale, gradually narrowed upward to the 

 slenderly and sharply acuminate apex, the base broadly rounded, 

 often truncate; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations distinct ; 

 petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long. Inflorescences axillary and subter- 

 minal, the lower ones often with peduncles up to 4 cm in length, 

 the upper ones short-peduncled, the flowers distichously arranged 

 on the branchlets, the peduncles, rachis, branches, and bracts 

 puberulent. Flowers about 2 cm long, pale purplish, the connate 

 bracts about 15 mm long, lanceolate, slenderly caudate-acu- 

 minate, distinctly ciliate in the upper one-half with spreading, 

 weak, crisped hairs, united for the lower 4 to 5 mm, the inner 

 two or three bracts lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat pubescent, 

 9 to 10 mm long, about 2 mm wide, narrowed at both ends, 

 the bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 1 mm long. Calyx about 

 6 mm long, somewhat pubescent, the lobes 5, membranaceous, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long. Corolla tube about 7 mm 

 long, glabrous below, somewhat pubescent above, the narrower 

 lobe 11 to 12 mm long, about 1 mm wide, the broader one 12 

 to 13 mm long, 5 mm wide, oblong-obovate, slightly narrowed 

 below, the apical lobules 1.5 to 2 mm long, the middle one some- 

 what broader than the two lateral ones. Filaments slightly 

 pubescent; anthers oblong, about 2.5 mm long. 



MiNDORO, Paluan, Bur. Sci. 39702 Ramos, April, 1921. In 

 dry forests at low altitudes. 



This species somewhat resembles Hypoestes cinerea C. B. 

 Clarke, but differs totally in its caudate-acuminate leaves and 

 involucral bracts. In its floral and inflorescence characters it 

 is manifestly allied to H. subcapitata C. B. Clarke and H. laxi- 

 flora Nees, but differs radically from both of these in its vege- 

 tative characters. 



HYPOESTES AXILLARIS sp. nov, 



Suffruticosa, erecta, ramosa, usque ad 50 cm alta, leviter 

 pubescentibus ; foliis in paribus subaequalibus vel inaequalibus, 

 ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, majoribus 6 ad 12 cm longis, minori- 

 bus 3 ad 6 cm longis, acute acuminatis, basi acutis, membrana- 

 ceis, olivaceis, nervis utrinque 6 vel 7 ; inflorescentiis axillaribus 

 terminalibusque, involucris paucis, solitariis vel fasciculatis, 

 sessilibus vel pedunculatis ; bracteis 4, lanceolatis, acuminatis, 



