XIII. c. 1 
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slightly inequilateral, acute, the upper surface sparingly stel- 
late-pubescent on the midrib and nerves or ultimately glabrous, 
the lower surface with more numerous stellate hairs, rarely 
largely confined to the midrib and nerves, more commonly scat- 
tered over the entire surface ; lateral nerves slender, not prom- 
inent, curved, anastomosing, about 5 on each side of midrib; 
petioles rather densely stellate-tomentose with cinereous hairs, 
1 to 2 cm long, unarmed. Cymes extra-axillary and terminal, 
about 3 cm long, peduncled, rather few-flowered, stellate-tomen- 
tose. Flowers violet, about 8 mm long, their pedicels up to 5 
mm in length. Calyx somewhat campanulate, sparingly or ra- 
ther densely stellate-tomentose, about 3 mm long, the lobes 
oblong-ovate, acute or subobtuse, about 1.5 mm long. Corolla 
sparingly stellate-tomentose externally, the tube short, the lobes 
oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, about 
6 mm long. Anthers lanceolate, somewhat narrowed upward, 
obtuse, 4 mm long. Fruit globose, glabrous, smooth, fleshy, red 
when fresh, about 6 mm in diameter ; seeds few, flattened, about 
3 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 26J/.87 Ramos 
& Edano, August 3, 1916, along small streams in open places at low 
altitudes. 
The alliance of this species is apparently with Solanum retrorsum Elm., 
from which, among numerous other characters, it is distinguished by its 
indumentum and especially by its short, scattered, straight, spreading 
spines. I refer here also the following specimens: Luzon, Pangasinan 
Province, Bautista, Merrill s. n., July, 1903; Umingan, Bur. Sci. 17710 
Otanes , April 17, 1914. 
Var. GLABRUM var. nov. 
A typo differt omnibus partibus glabris. 
Luzon, Pampanga Province, Calumpit, Merrill U2S7 (type), September, 
1905 ; Tarlac Province, Gerona, Guerrero s. n., April, 1906. 
ACANTHACEAE 
HEMIGRAPHiS Nees 
HEMIGRAPHIS VIRiDIS sp. nov. 
Caule herbaceo, erecto, usque ad 50 cm alto, ramis tetragonis 
vel sulcatis, minute strigosis; foliis subaequalibus, laneeolatis 
ad anguste laneeolatis, in siccitate viridis, nitidis, usque ad 9 
cm longis, margine undulatis, basi obtusis, sursum angustatis et 
longissime obtuse acuminatis, cystolithis subtus nullis, supra 
numerosis, magnis, jam oculo nudo distinctis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 10, subtus strigosis; spicis circiter 3, pedunculatis, 2.5 
