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numerous, fascicled, up to 5 cm in length, dense, many-flowered, 
ciliate-pilose with white hairs. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, about 4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, imbricate, prominently 
ciliate-pilose with white hairs as are the sepals. Sepals 5, four 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 4 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, the 
other as long but twice as wide. Corolla at least 5 mm long, 
the lobes subequal, rounded. Capsule oblong-lanceolate, nar- 
rowed upward, 4-angled, about 5 mm long, slightly puberulent 
toward the apex; seeds 4.1 mm in diameter, the margins rather 
prominently ciliate. 
Palawan, Taytay, Merrill 9760, April, 1913, in dry thickets along trails 
at sea level. 
Perhaps as closely allied to Lepidagathis mindorensis Merr. as any other 
species, but the indumentum not at all capitate-glandular and the leaves 
entirely different in shape, not rounded or cordate at the base and with 
short petioles, but long decurrent-acuminate and long-petioled. 
LEPIDAGATHIS MINDORENSIS sp. nov. 
Herba erecta circiter 20 cm alta; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
subcoriaceis, glabris, usque ad 9 cm longis, basi late rotundatis 
vel subcordatis, supra sensim angustatis, obtusis vel obscure ob- 
tuse acuminatis, breviter petiolatis; spicis terminalibus dense 
fasciculatis, 2 ad 4 cm longis, angustis, densis, calycis segmentis 
bracteisque capitato-glandulosis, plus minusve dense ciliato-pilo- 
sis ; capsulis dense cinereo-pubescentibus. 
An erect herb about 20 cm high, somewhat branched, the basal 
parts of the stems somewhat woody, terete, glabrous, grayish- 
brown, the younger parts distinctly 4-angled, brown, more or 
less densely covered with weak, crisp, brownish hairs. Leaves 
in equal pairs, oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 5 to 9 cm long, 
2 to 3 cm wide, widest in the lower part, gradually narrowed 
upward to the blunt, or slightly blunt-acuminate apex, the base 
broad, rounded or subcordate, margins slightly undulate, the 
upper surface glabrous and shining, the lower when young some- 
what puberulent on the midrib and nerves; nerves slender, dis- 
tinct beneath, anastomosing and forming a submarginal nerve; 
petioles pubescent, 2 to 4 mm long. Spikes terminal, fasciculate, 
many at the apex of each branch, crowded, 2 to 5 cm long, less 
than 5 mm in diameter, the bracts and calyx-segments rather 
densely ciliate-pilose, with numerous glandular-capitate hairs 
intermixed. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, slenderly long-acumi- 
nate, about 4 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, 1-nerved. Calyx-seg- 
ments all 1-nerved, slenderly acuminate, narrowly lanceolate, one 
