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slender, glabrous, 4-angled. Leaves opposite, glabrous or very- 
minutely scaberulous, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 
rather stiff, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 1.5 to 3 mm wide, the lower surface 
pale, the midrib distinct but the nerves and reticulations obsolete, 
the base narrowed and connate with the stipules, apex somewhat 
acuminate ; stipules cupular, truncate, their margins with usually 
3 or 4, slender, scabrid, 2 to 4 mm long teeth. Flowers axillary, 
sessile, solitary, white. Corolla-tube very slender, 4 mm long, 
the lobes oblong, 2.5 to 3 mm long, strongly recurved, densely 
villous inside near the base. Capsule oblong-obovate, somewhat 
angled, 3 mm long, the persistent calyx-lobes lanceolate, acu- 
minate, 1.5 to 2 mm long. 
Luzon, Rizal Province, Mount Susong Dalaga, Bur. Sci. 29425 
Ramos & Edaho (type) , August 2, 1917 : Bataan Province, Limay, 
Bur. Sci. 6180 Robinson, August, 1908: Pampanga Province, 
Mount Arayat, Merrill 4220, September, 1905, on damp shaded 
banks in forests, altitude 300 to 900 meters. 
This species belongs in the group with Hedyotis tenelliflora 
Blume, H. nitida W. & A., and H. pinifolia Wall., and is perhaps 
most closely allied to the second one, although very different 
from it in details. The very slender, elongated corolla-tube and 
the solitary flowers are characteristic. 
HEDYOTIS SCABERRI M A sp. nov. 
Frutex parvus, foliis utrinque valde scaberrimis, ramis pri- 
mariis usque ad 60 cm longis; foliis membranaceis, fragilis, 
oblongo-ovatis, 8 ad 11 cm longis, apice acuminatis, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 7, supra impressis, subtus prominulis, subtus ad 
costa villosis; petiolo villoso; stipulis 4 ad 5 mm longis, 7-lacinia- 
tis, laciniae 2.5 ad 3 mm longae; floribus numerosis, axillaribus, 
fasciculatis, confertis, corollae circiter 3 mm longae. 
Apparently an undershrub, the branches at least 60 cm long, 
the leaves very rough on both surfaces with short rigid pro- 
jections, branches somewhat 4-angled or distinctly sulcate, more 
or less villous with spreading hairs. Leaves membranaceous, 
brittle when dry, greenish olivaceous, oblong-ovate, 8 to 11 cm 
long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, base rounded to acute or somewhat de- 
current-acuminate, somewhat narrowed upward to the rather 
prominently acuminate apex, both surfaces hispid-scaberulous, 
the midrib beneath and the petiole densely villous with spreading 
white hairs; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, curved, ascending, projecting on the lower surface, im- 
pressed on the upper surface, the primary reticulations very 
