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about 1.2 mm wide, two slightly less than 1 mm wide, the fourth 
cleft to within about 1 mm of the base. Corolla pink, pubescent 
outside, 5 mm long, the tube slightly narrowed upward, not 
abruptly contracted, the upper lip about 1.3 mm wide, rounded 
or very obscurely retuse, the lower one cleft into three obtuse 
lobes about 1.2 mm long and 1 mm wide. Anthers 0.5 mm long, 
the cells parallel. Capsule narrowly oblong-ovate, densely cine- 
reous-pubescent with short hairs. * 
Mindoro, Bulalacao, in rocky soils along streams, altitude about 50 
meters, Bur. Sci. 6702 Robinson, March 17, 1909. 
A species well characterized by its firm, short-petioled leaves which are 
rounded or subcordate at the base, and by its narrow, dense, fasciculate 
spikes, the bracts, bracteoles, and calyx-segments being rather densely 
ciliate-pilose and capitate-glandular, and in its capsules being densely 
cinereous-pubescent. 
LEPIDAGATHIS CLARKEI sp. nov. 
Species L. incurvae Don affinis differt spicis oblongis, solitariis 
vel subsolitariis, bracteis majoribus, margine parce ciliatis ex- 
ceptis glabris, in siccitate brunneis vel brunneo-purpureis. 
An erect herbaceous plant 20 to 30 cm high, not or but slightly 
branched, the basal part rarely decumbent. Stems brown or 
olivaceous, glabrous, slender, terete or slightly angled. Leaves 
in equal pairs, ovate to oblong-ovate, membranaceous, greenish 
when dry, slightly shining and somewhat paler on the lower sur- 
face than on the upper, 5 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, the 
base usually long and slenderly decurrent-acuminate, the apex 
acute or obscurely acuminate, margins entire, both surfaces with 
scattered, short cystoliths, glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 on 
each side of the midrib, slender ; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long. Spikes 
solitary, terminating the stem and the short, axillary branches, 
the whole inflorescence appearing compound, the individual 
spikes oblong, 2 to 5 cm long, about 1.5 cm in diameter, the 
bracts lanceolate, long and slenderly acuminate, about 11 mm 
long, 2 mm wide, brown or brown-purple when dry, 3-nerved, 
with distinct transverse reticulations in the upper part, glabrous 
except the slightly ciliate margins. Calyx-lobes all acuminate, 
one lanceolate, 3-nerved, with transverse reticulations in the up- 
per half, about 10 mm long, 2.1 mm wide, two linear, 9 mm long, 
the fourth one cleft to within 4 mm of the base, the lobes about 
2 mm wide, with a prominent midnerve and each with a pair of 
marginal nerves, all the segments slightly ciliate on the margins, 
otherwise glabrous. Corolla 8 mm long, white, glabrous, the tube 
slightly constricted, the lobes four, subequal, oblong, obtuse, 
