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An undershrub, up to 40 cm high, branched from the base, 

 the stems terete, about 4 mm in diameter, the branchlets brown- 

 ish, slender, somewhat pubescent with very short hairs. Leaves 

 lanceolate, membranaceous, those of each pair similar in shape 

 but unequal in size, one usually one-third to one-half smaller 

 than the other, 5 to 13 cm long, 1 to 2.7 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed to the acuminate apex and base, the margins some- 

 what undulate, the upper surface glabrous, brownish-olivaceous, 

 the lower pale, glabrous or when young very slightly pubescent 

 on the midrib and nerves; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side of 

 the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations 

 very lax; petioles 3 to 10 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary 

 or in pairs, white, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, about 5 cm 

 long, each subtended by a pair of foliaceous spathelike bracts 

 which inclose the calyx, being united by their margins in the 

 lower 4 mm, these bracts 1.5 to 1.7 cm long, glabrous or nearly 

 so, prominently acuminate, up to 9 mm wide below. Calyx ob- 

 long, about 7 mm long, slightly pubescent, subequally 5-lobed, 

 the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long. Corolla 4.5 to 5 cm 

 long, pilose with long scattered hairs externally, the lower 1 cm 

 of the tube very slender, not exceeding 2 mm in diameter, then 

 broadened, the throat, when flattened, about 1.5 cm wide, sub- 

 equally 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, rounded, about 1 cm long. Disk 

 cylindric, glabrous, 2 mm long, somewhat crenate. Ovary gla- 

 brous. Stamens about 3 cm long. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 

 Bur. Sci. 33078 Ramos, August 29, 1918, along small streams in 

 forests at low altitudes. 



This species belongs in the group with, and is closely allied 

 to, Cyrtandra livida Kranzl. and C. agusanensis Elm., from both 

 of which it differs notably in its very much larger flowers, while 

 the leaves are merely undulate, not toothed. 



ACANTHACEAE 



HEMIGRAPHIS Linnaeus 

 HEMIGRAPHIS NUM M ULARI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Herba glabra, tenuis, ramosis, prostratis vel subprostratis ; 

 foliis orbicularis ad orbiculari-ovatis, integris, 5 ad 10 mm longis; 

 floribus axillaribus, solitariis, ebracteolatis, circiter 1.3 cm 

 longis, calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, 6.5 mm longis; 

 capsulis anguste oblongis, 9 mm longis. 



A slender, much-branched herb, the main branches spreading 

 or prostrate, up to 20 cm long, the secondary branches more or 



