314 The Philippine Journal of Science 1916 
R (JELL I A Linnaeus 
RUELLIA FLAGELLIFORMIS Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 95, nomen 
nudum, FI. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 47. 
Amboina, Paso, Rel. Robins. 1790, October 31, 1913, near the seashore. 
A species originally and very imperfectly described from specimens 
originating in the Moluccas, possibly in Amboina. The excellent specimens 
here referred to Roxburgh’s species agree perfectly with the description so 
far as it goes, and unquestionably represent it. 
HYPOESTES R. Brown 
HYPOESTES LAXI FLORA Nees in DC. Prodr. 11 (1857) 508. 
Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1789, September 25, 1913, in Rumphius’s garden, 
town of Amboina, locally known as bunga burong. 
Java and the Philippines to tropical Australia. Closely allied to Hypo- 
estes malaccensis Wight, and H. decaisneana Nees. The Amboina specimen 
is a close match for Philippine material, Cuming 1019, cited by Nees in the 
original description of Hypoestes laxiflora Nees. 
ERANTHEMUM Linnaeus 
ERANTHEMUM sp. 
Amboina, Rel. Robins. 1791, September 25, 1913, a cultivated shrub, 
collected in the town of Amboina. 
PERISTROPH E Nees 
PERISTROPHE COMMUTATA Nees in DC. Prodr. 11 (1857) 497. 
Justicia bivalvis Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. 2, 1 (1832) 42, non Linn. 
Amboina, Rel. Robins. 2542, July 22, 1913, along the river bank in the 
vicinity of the town of Amboina, locally known as daun mariaya. 
Peristrophe commutata Nees was based wholly on Roxburgh’s description 
of Justicia bivalvis, the latter being based on specimens from the Moluccas, 
in all probability from Amboina. The description, although short and very 
incomplete, applies unmistakably to the specimen cited above, which is 
distinguished from Peristrophe bivalvis (Linn.) Merr. ( P . tinctoria Nees) 
by its much narrower, lanceolate leaves, and its much narrower, linear- 
lanceolate bracts. 
LEPIDAGATHiS Willdenow 
LEPIDAGATHIS ROBINSONII sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, simplex vel parce ramosa, circiter 70 cm alta, 
inflorescentiis leviter ciliatis exceptis glabra; foliis submem- 
branaceis, in siccitate olivaceis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque 
ad 14 cm longis, leviter undulatis, acuminatis, basi subabrupte 
decurrento-acuminatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; spicis termina- 
libus, brevibus, solitariis vel trinis, circiter 2 cm longis, in sicci- 
tate brunneis, bracteis bracteolisque subsimilis, circiter 10 mm 
longis, tenuiter acutissime acuminatis, parce ciliatis ; calycis seg- 
ments 5, omnibus liberis, valde inaequimagnis, superioribus et 
inferioribus circiter 9 mm longis, lateralibus lineari-lanceolatis, 
6 ad 7 mm longis, leviter ciliatis. 
