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reticulations, and its short, many-flowered, mostly fascicled, racemose 
inflorescence. 
LINOCIERA PALUDOSA King & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74 1 
(1905) 268. 
Palawan, Taytay, Merrill 9177, 9335, Phil. PL 1373 (as L. euphlebia 
Merr.), April, May, 1913. 
The specimens are not quite identical with King's collector 6476 from 
Larut, Malay Peninsula, a duplicate of one of the specimens cited in the 
original description. I can, however, detect no essential differences and 
prefer to consider the Philippine form under King & Gamble’s specific name. 
Previously known only from the Malay Peninsula. 
BORAGINACEAE 
HELIOTROPIUM Linnaeus 
H ELIOTROPI U M OVALIFOL1UM Forsk. var. DEPRESSUM (Cham.) 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 134. 
Heliotropium gracile R. Br. var. depressum Cham, in Linnaea (1829) 
457. 
Heliotropium coromandelinum Retz. var. depressum A. DC. Prodr. 9 
(1845) 542. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Calamba, along the shores of Lake Bay, 
F. C. Gates 6651, July 27, 1913. 
This species, other than the record of F.-Villar, sub H. coromandelinum 
Retz., is new to the Philippines. The specimen cited above agrees in all 
essentials with our Guam material, the type of the variety depressum being 
from Guam. It differs from the Indian material notably in its relatively 
longer and much narrower leaves. Forskal’s specific name dates from the 
year 1775, Retzius’s name from the year 1781. 
India, Tropical Africa, and Australia, the variety in Luzon and the 
Mariana Islands (Guam). 
GESNERIACEAE 
TRICHOSPORUM D. Don 
TRICHOSPORUM BAKERI sp. nov. § Holocalyx. 
Scandens, ramulis junioribus plus minusve pilosus; foliis coria- 
ceis, in siccitate pallidis, ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, usque ad 4.5 
cm longis, obtusis vel late obscure obtuseque acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis, nervis lateralibus circiter 3, obscurissimis vel obso- 
lete ; floribus glaberrimis, 5.5 cm longis, corolla quam calycis 
duplo longioribus. 
Scandent, slender, elongated, the stems terete, grayish, 
wrinkled, 3 mm in diameter or less, rooting at the nodes, spar- 
ingly branched, the younger branchlets rather densely villous. 
Leaves numerous, when fresh apparently fleshy, when dry co- 
riaceous or subcoriaceous, pale, dull or slightly shining, the 
