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or greenish-olivaceous, slightly shining, the lower surface some- 
what paler than the upper, the upper surface with distinct 
cystoliths and scattered, stiff white hairs, the lower surface 
more prominently hirsute than the upper, acute at both ends, 
or the apex somewhat obtuse, margins distinctly crenate ; lateral 
nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, slender, obscure; pe- 
tioles hirsute, 5 to 8 mm long. Spikes terminal, solitary, 1 
to 2 cm long, including the few flowers. Bracts somewhat im- 
bricate, few, foliaceous, hirsute, oblong, obtuse, 8 to 14 
mm long, olivaceous; bracteoles filiform, hirsute, about 3 mm 
long. Calyx tube 2 mm long, the lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, 
slenderly acuminate, prominently ciliate, one about 6 mm long, 
the other four 4 mm long. Corolla slightly pubescent externally, 
17 mm long. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27543 Ramos, March 9, 
1917, along streams in forests at low altitudes. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Hemigraphis hirsutissima 
Merr., from which it differs in its strictly erect stems; longer leaves and 
petioles; the leaves not pustulate on the upper surface, but with distinct 
cystoliths; its few-flowered spikes; and distinctly larger flowers. 
JUSTICIA Linnaeus 
JUSTICIA DISPAR sp. nov. § Calophanoides. 
Planta ut videtur erecta, suffruticosa, ramosa, subglabra, 
ramis ramulisque teretibus ; foliis in paribus valde inaequalibus, 
oblongo-ovatis, firmiter chartaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel 
acuminatis, majoribus usque ad 6 cm longis, minoribus 1 ad 2 
cm longis, utrinque cystolithis instructis; floribus axillaribus, 
sessilibus, solitariis vel binis, 1.2 cm longis, bracteis (foliis 
floralibus) oblongo-spatulatis, 6 mm longis; calycibus segmentis 
5, lanceolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, minute adpresse hispidis. 
Apparently erect, much branched, suffrutescent or the stems 
distinctly woody, the branches and branchlets slender, terete, 
the branches glabrous, the branchlets black when dry, sparsely 
pubescent, often distinctly zig-zag. Leaves opposite, those of 
each pair very unequal in size, the larger ones 4 to 6 cm long and 
2 to 3 cm wide, the smaller ones 1 to 2 cm long, 1 cm wide or 
less, acuminate, glabrous, firmly chartaceous, dark-olivaceous 
when dry, base acute or acuminate, the cystoliths evident on both 
surfaces ; lateral nerves of the larger leaves 4 to 5 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, their petioles 5 mm long or less. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or in pairs, white, about 1.2 mm long, each 
subtended by a bract-like, oblong-spatulate, petiolate, 6 mm long 
leaf. Calyx-segments 5, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, 5.5 
