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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1913 
An erect, unbranched, glabrous, suffrutescent plant, or an 
undershriib, 30 to 60 cm high. Stems terete, brownish, about 
3 mm in diameter, the younger parts distinctly 4-angled. Leaves 
lanceolate, membranaceous, equally narrowed and acuminate at 
both ends, 4 to 5 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide; lateral veins very 
slender, scarcely visible to the naked eye, 3 or 4 on each side of 
the midrib, sometimes obsolete or subobsolete; petioles slender, 
3 to 8 mm long; stipules lanceolate, 5 to 6 mm long, pectinate, 
the lobes linear, 2 to 3.5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, long- 
and slenderly peduncled, paniculate, few-flowered, 7 to 12 cm 
long, lax, the bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 5 mm long, 
the pedicels slender, 5 to 8 mm long. Calyx-tube somewhat 
ovoid, about 2 mm long, the lobes 4, lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm 
long. Corolla white, 6 mm long, villous inside, the lobes 4, 
ovate, acute, 2 mm long. Anthers included, 1.5 mm long. Cap- 
sule narrowly obovoid, 2.5 to 3 mm long, base acute, calyx-lobes 
persistent. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, Mount Mahinog, in the mossy forest, Bur. Sci. 
H691 Ramos, April, 1912. 
A very characteristic species, recognizable by its habit, its small size, 
lanceolate nearly nerveless leaves, lax inflorescence, and long peduncles. 
It somewhat resembles Hedyotis rhinophylla Thw., in gross characters, 
but is not closely allied to that species, which, among many other characters, 
differs from Hedyotis humilis in its terminal, not axillary inflorescence. 
HEDYOTIS PHANEROPHLEBIA ^p. nov. § Diplophragma. 
Frutex glaber, ut videtur erectus, ramis teretibus vel obscure 
angulatis, internodiis brevibus, stipulis laciniato-pectinatis ; foliis 
oblongo-ovatis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, petiolatis, acuminatis, 
usque ad 9 cm longis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, prominentibus, 
adscendentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, laxis, paniculatis, 
paucifloris; fructibus circiter 7 mm longis. 
An erect glabrous shrub, the branches rather stout, subterete 
or obscurely angled, pale, smooth. Leaves oblong-ovate, charta- 
ceous or subcoriaceous, somewhat shining when dry, 5 to 9 cm 
long, 2 to 3 cm wide, acuminate, base acute; nerves 5 or 6 
on each side of the midrib, very prominent, sharply ascending; 
petioles about 1 cm long; stipules about 1 cm long, prominently 
laciniate-pectinate, the narrow lobes 3 to 5 mm long. Inflores- 
cence terminal, paniculate, rather lax, 8 cm long or less, the 
branches opposite, the branchlets also in pairs. Flowers white, 
their pedicels 6 to 15 mm long, subtended by linear-lanceolate 
bracteoles, about 6 mm long, 1 mm wide. Calyx 6 mm long, 
the tube funnel-shaped, base acute, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 3.5 mm long, reticulate-nerved. Corolla about 
