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ince, San Fernando, Lete 108, 175, July and September, 1916, 

 in open sandy places near sea level, with the Ilocano name 

 camarin. 



This species has been previously reported only from Austra- 

 lia and Formosa, but the Philippine specimens cited above agree 

 very closely with the descriptions and with Australian material 

 kindly supplied by Mr. J. H. Maiden. In vegetative characters 

 the Philippine specimens present great variation, as do the Aus- 

 tralian ones. I am further of the opinion that Henry 1112 from 

 Formosa represents a somewhat dwarfed form of the same 

 species. My specimen of this, identified as Ipomoea sp., is but 

 about 10 cm high and has unusually narrow leaves. In floral 

 characters, however, it closely approximates the Luzon form. 



VERBENACEAE 



CALLICARPA Linnaeus 

 CALLICARPA OBTUSIFOLIA sp. nov, 



Frutex, ramulis et petiolis et inflorescentiis et subtus foliis 

 unif ormiter denseque cinereo-stellato-tomentosus ; foliis ellipticis 

 ad oblongo-ellipticis, supra glabris, subcoriaceis, usque ad 8 cm 

 longis, apice rotundatis, obtusis, vel subacutis, margine denti- 

 culatis, nervis utrinque 5 ad 7, perspicuis; cymis pedunculatis, 

 dichotomis, usque ad 2.5 cm latis; floribus numerosis, circiter 

 2.5 mm longis, calycis extus dense albido-stellato-tomentosis. 



A shrub, the branchlets, petioles, inflorescences, and lower sur- 

 face of the leaves densely and uniformly cinereous-stellate-pu- 

 bescent, the indumentum covering the entire surface. Branches 

 terete, pale-brownish, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 

 subcoriaceous, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, the apex rounded, 

 obtuse, or sometimes subacute, base usually obtuse, margins 

 entire below, in the upper part distinctly denticulate, the upper 

 surface brownish-olivaceous, glabrous or when young stellate- 

 pubescent along the midrib ; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side of 

 the midrib, curved, distinct as are the primary reticulations; 

 petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Cymes axillary, peduncled, dichot- 

 omous, up to 2.5 cm wide, the peduncles about 1.5 cm long; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2.5 mm long; pedicels 

 0.5 mm long or less. Flowers rather crowded, pink. Calyx 

 cup-shaped to obconic, about 1.6 mm long, densely stellate-pu- 

 bescent, the teeth 4, short. Corolla glabrous, 2.5 mm long, the 

 lobes equal, orbicular-ovate, rounded, nearly 1 mm in diameter. 

 Filaments and style 5 to 6 mm long. Fruit globose, dark-brown 

 and rugose when dry, about 2 mm in diameter. 



