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SOLAN UM I >iun. 
Solanum inaequilaterale ]Meiiill sp. nov. 
An unarmed, inore or less stellate pubescent shrub 2 to 3 ni. high, 
with alternate sul)entire or undulate leaves and extra-axillary cymes. 
Itranches light gray, glabrous, the younger ones black Avhen dry, more or 
less densely stellate pubescent. Leaves membranous or submenil^rauous, 
oldong-ovate, acute or acuminate, the base acute or obtuse, inequilateral, 
the lamina on one side of the midrib extending somewhat down the 
petiole, the margins entire or somewhat undulate, gialu’ous above, more 
or less densely stellate pubescent beneath, tlie young leaves very densely 
so, the older ones subglabrous ; nerves 5 to G on each side of the midril) ; 
petioles 2 to 3 cm. long. Cymes peduncled, stellate pubescent, densely 
or laxly flowered, about 5 cm. long. Calyx densely stellate pubescent, 
about 4 mm. long, sul)truncate or obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla pale 
purple, 11 mm. long, stellate ])ul)escent outside, the tul)e 2 nun. long, 
the 5 lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm. wide. 
Stamens 5, oljlong, al)out 5 mm. long. Ovary 2-celled, glabrous or 
slightly pul)escent at the apex, the style glabrous, about G mm. long. 
Fruit globose, glabrous, sliining, l)right red when mature, about 7 mm. 
in diameter, the calyx not enlarged. Seed 2 to 2.5 mm. in diameter. 
Inflorescence l)econiing nearly or (pTite glabrous in fruit. 
Luzon, Province of Beiigiiet, Siiyoc to Pauai (4807 Merrill) November 7, 1005. 
Border of tlie mossy forest on liigli ridges at about 2,000 ni. No. 0204 Elmer, 
from Sablan, the same province, appears to be a form of this species with thin, 
less pidiescent leaves and longer, lax cymes. 
SC R( )P HULART ACE Ad. 
ALECTRA Thunb. 
Alectra dentata (Bentli.) 0. Knntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 458. Eymenosper- 
muiib deiitatum Bentli. in Wall. Cat. ,3963. Alectra indica Bentli. in DC. 
Prodr. 10 (1840) 339; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 297; Forbes & 
Hemsl. .Tonrn. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 201. Melasma indica Wettst. in 
Engl, nnd Prantl. Nat. Ptianzenfam. 4 (1891) 3B: 91. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet. Bagnio to Ambuklao (4350 Merrill) October 24, 
1905. Dry open grass lands in thin pine forests at about 1,500 m. Not previously 
r('|)orted from the Philipjiines. 
Southern China to the mountains of Burma, India, and Mauritius. 
EUPHRASIA I hnn. 
Euphrasia borneensis Stajif. Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II. 4 (1894) 210. pi. Id. 
t. 1-11!. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Suyoc to Pauai (4720, 4722 Merrill) November 7, 
1905. On dry open gras.sy ridges at about 2,200 m. 
No species of tlie genus has been previously reported from the Philippines, 
Euphrasia horiieensis having previously been known only from the type locality, 
Xloniit Kanabaln, British North Borneo. The specimens cited above differ from 
Euphrasia horncensis as described liy Stapf in some slight minor characters, but 
