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cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, pale brownish when dry, subequally 

 narrowed to the somewhat acuminate apex and the decurrent 

 base; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, rather 

 prominent on the lower surface, the reticulation obscure; 

 petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers crowded in a dense, subglo- 

 bose, sessile or very shortly peduncled, terminal inflorescence 

 about 2 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts 4 subtending each 

 flower, the outer two lanceolate, acuminate, 12 to 13 mm long, 

 very densely ciliate in the upper two-thirds with white, 2 mm 

 long, spreading hairs, the lower third glabrous or only slightly 

 pubescent, the inner two bracts similar to the outer ones but 

 shorter and ciliate only on the median portion of the back. 

 Calyx pubescent, 8 mm long, the lobes linear-lanceolate, acumin- 

 ate, equaling the tube. 



Luzon, Zambales Province, Santa Maria, Bur. Sd. 4-756 Ramos, 

 December, 1907. In open places at low altitudes. 



A species very strongly characterized by its dense, subcapitate 

 inflorescences, and more especially by its densely and very con- 

 spicuously ciliate involucral bracts. Its alliance is with Hy- 

 poestes subcapitata C. B. Clarke, from which it is readily 

 distinguished by its larger, more numerously nerved leaves, its 

 inflorescence and involucre characters, and by being glabrous 

 throughout except for the inflorescences. 



HEMIGRAPHIS Nees 

 HEMIGRAPHIS LANCEOLATA sp. nov. 



Herba erecta, ramosa, 50 ad 70 cm alta, partibus junioribus 

 perspicue hirsutis; foliis lanceolatis, chartaceis, in siccitate fra- 

 gilis, 6 ad 14 cm longis, caudato-acuminatis, basi acutis, margine 

 undulato-crenatis, glabris, nervis utrinque 4 ad 8; spicis ter- 

 minalibus axillaribusque, usque ad 7 cm longis, bracteis foliaceis, 

 numerosis, lanceolatis, 1.5 ad 2 cm longis, utrinque hirsutis, 

 acuminatis, basi acutis; calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, 

 caudato-acuminatis, hirsutis, 10 mm longis ; corolla alba, 1.6 cm 

 longa, sursum pubescens, lobis 4 mm longis; filamentis longio- 

 ribus villosis, brevioribus glabris; capsulis hirsutis, 6 ad 7 mm 

 longis. 



An erect, branched herb, 50 to 70 cm high, the younger parts 

 rather conspicuously hirsute with stiff, white hairs, the stems 

 and branches dark-colored when dry, glabrous or very slightly 

 pubescent, usually sulcate. Leaves lanceolate, chartaceous, 

 brittle when dry, 6 to 14. cm long, 1 to 3 cm wide, olivaceous, 



