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corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, unequally 5-lobed, 
pubescent in the throat; segments rounded at the apex: anthers 
unappendaged.—Collected on Duncan Island, August, 1891. A 
Species of § Leptostachya and with much the habit of V. remota 
Benth., but dittering in pubescence and foliage. 
LTERNANTHERA RIGIDA. Fruticose, copiously and were: § 
capitate, ovate or oblong, terminal upon the branchlets, 4 to 
lines in length, about 3 lines in diameter, bright white, slightly 
villous in the axils of the bracts, otherwise glabrous: bracts ovate, 
acute, two-thirds the length of the flower, white and scarious ; 
bractlets 2, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, equalling the 
out a 
above ; branches opposite, ascending, slender, terete, finely 
striate, puberulent or labrous; internodes elongated: leaves 
reduced to minute scales, scarcely half line long, ovate, acute, 
ges : inflorescence terminal, loosely spicate, 
slender and flexuous, 1 to 24 inches long; flowers sessile, scattered, 
Solitary in alternate bracts; the lowest still more remote; bracts 
Short, broader than long, obtuse, half line long, slightly if at all 
pubescent ; bractlets broadl ovate, retuse, glabrous, scarious: 
Islands, Jul ° A ° ‘ : : a 
° y, 1891. <A species with the juncoid habit of F. nudi 
caulis Hook. fil., but differing much in its elongated scattered 
inflorescence, glabrous bractlets, ete. A erase and entirely 
Sterile specimen was also collected on East Albemarle. 
