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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1915 
LEPIDAGATHIS M ACGREGORI I sp. nov. 
Species L. laxae Nees ut videtur affinis, differt foliis oblongo- 
ovatis, multo majoribus, usque ad 12 cm longis, 5 cm latis, floribus 
4-meris, spicis longioribus, calycis segmentis bracteisque leviter 
ciliatis, vix glandulosis. 
Erect, nearly glabrous, the branches quadrangular, slender, 
often somewhat puberulent at the nodes, reddish-brown. Leaves 
in equal pairs, membranaceous, glabrous, oblong-ovate, 10 to 12 
cm long, 4.5 to 5 cm wide, somewhat shining when dry, slightly 
paler on the lower surface than on the upper, the base rather 
abruptly and shortly decurrent-acuminate, the apex acute or 
slightly acuminate, margins somewhat undulate, both surfaces 
with small, scattered cystoliths, the lower one sometimes slightly 
puberulent along the midrib; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side 
of the midrib, curved, anastomosing; petioles 1 cm long or less. 
Spikes fasciculate, from one to three on each peduncle, the 
peduncles very short or up to 4 cm in length, crowded in the 
upper axils, the spikes slender, 2 to 6 cm long, 5 to 6 mm in 
diameter. Bracts and bracteoles similar, lanceolate, acuminate, 
1-nerved, 4 to 5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, margins slightly ciliate 
with short hairs, otherwise glabrous, not at all glandular. Calyx- 
segments all acuminate, slightly ciliate on the margins, not gland- 
ular, one lanceolate, 5 mm long, 1.3 mm wide, very obscurely 
3-nerved, not reticulate, two linear-lanceolate, less than 1 mm 
wide, the fourth cleft to within 2.5 mm of the base, the lobes lan- 
ceolate, about 1 mm wide. Corolla apparently white, 5 mm long, 
glabrous, the tube not or very slightly contracted, the upper lip 
elliptic-ovate, slightly retuse, 1.5 mm wide, the lower one cleft into 
three, oblong, obtuse lobes, about 2 mm long, 1 mm wide. 
Anthers about 0.8 mm long. Capsule 4.5 mm long, glabrous 
except the puberulent apex. 
Mindoro, Baco River, McGregor 128, March 15, 1905. 
A species well characterized by its slender, nearly glabrous spikes; it is 
similar to Lepidagathis laxa Nees in some respects, but differs from that 
form in the points indicated in the diagnosis; from L. incurva Ham., to 
which it is also manifestly allied, it differs in its slender, nearly glabrous 
spikes. 
LEPIDAGATHIS HUMILIS sp. nov. 
Herba parva, plus minusve prostrata, ramis floriferis erectis 
vix 10 cm altis ; foliis in paribus inaequalibus, breviter petiolatis, 
ovatis vel late ovatis, usque ad 2 cm longis, basi late truncatis, 
rariter leviter cordatis vel decurrentibus ; spicis axillaribus termi- 
nalibusque, solitariis, laxis, angustis, usque ad 5 cm longis, vix 5 
mm latis, calycis lobis bracteisque vix ciliatis, leviter hispidis. 
