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narrowed upward to the slenderly caudate-acuminate apex 

 and below to the acute base, the upper surface glabrous, smooth, 

 with numerous irregularly arranged cystoliths, the lower surface 

 uniformly dark purple when fresh, when dry nearly the same 

 color as the upper surface, glabrous or when young sparingly 

 hirsute, the margins irregularly undulate-crenate ; lateral nerves 

 4 to 8 on each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing; 

 petioles 1 to 2 cm long. Spikes terminal and in the uppermost 

 axils forming a somewhat leafy inflorescence, the individual 

 inflorescences 7 cm long or less; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 

 1.5 to 2 cm long, about 5 mm wide, hirsute on both surfaces with 

 scattered, stiff, spreading, white hairs, narrowed below to the 

 acute base and above to the acuminate or acute apex, the in- 

 ternodes of the inflorescences up to 1 cm in length. Calyx 

 segments linear-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, about 10 mm 

 long, 1 mm wide, hirsute. Corolla white, about 1.6 cm long, 

 the tube slender, cylindric and glabrous in the lower 5 mm, then 

 broadened and sparingly pubescent externally, the lobes elliptic, 

 rounded, about 4 mm long, the tube somewhat villous inside in 

 the upper part. Longer filaments 3 mm in length, villous, the 

 shorter ones glabrous; anthers 1.2 mm long. Ovary villous in 

 the upper half; style glabrous. Capsules oblong, hirsute, 6 to 

 7 mm long, about 1.8 mm wide. 



Negros, Cadiz, Bur. Sci. 7330 Celestino, March, 1909. Balut, 

 Merrill 5^13 (type), October, 1906. On open, steep slopes in 

 semicultivated ground at low altitudes, ascending to 500 meters. 



A species strongly characterized by its narrow, lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate leaves which are green on the upper surface 

 and uniformly dark purple on the lower surface when fresh, 

 as well as by its numerous, foliaceous, lanceolate, hirsute bracts. 

 The specimens were originally referred to Hemigraphis hirsuta 

 T. Anders. 



HEMIGRAPHIS PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Herba erecta, ramosa, leviter hirsuta, usque ad 60 cm alta; 

 foliis in paribus aequalibus vel subaequalibus, coriaceis, olivaceis, 

 in siccitate fragilis, ellipticis ad oblongis, 6 ad 11 cm longis, 

 basi acutis, apice acutis vel leviter acuminatis, supra glabris, 

 subtus scaberulis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; inflorescentiis termi- 

 nalibus, spicatis, spicis plerumque 3, pedunculatis, usque ad 5 

 cm longis; bracteis numerosis, foliaceis, oblongis ad lanceolatis, 

 utrinque angustatis, 12 ad 14 mm longis, hirsutis; calycis lobis 



