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This species is very closely allied to Monophyllaea kirtella Miq., and 
it is not without doubt that I propose it. Miquel’s species is known to 
me only by his very poor description which was repeated by C. B. Clarke 
in his monograph. The discrepancies, however, between Miquel’s descrip- 
tion and our species seem to warrant the establishment of the present one, 
the differential characters being especially in the inflorescence. Miquel 
says “pedunculis pluribus longiusculis, apice brevissime ramulosis ramulis 
subunilateralibus densifloris,” none of these characters agreeing with those 
of M. Merrilliana. In both species the corollas are unknown. The leaves 
of Merrill’s specimen are partly destroyed by moisture, but even when 
reconstructed to their full size we have a length of only 20 cm and not 
a “folium pede longius.” I take this occasion to recall to botanists living 
in the Philippines a remark by the late C. B. Clarke who says in his 
generic diagnosis of Monophyllaea “Herbae folio unico cotyledonae ?.’’ 
There is indeed a strange analogy in the whole growth between Mono- 
phyllaea and the typical Strepto carpus. 
MONOPHYLLAEA LONGIPES Kranzl. sp. nov. 
Caulis 12 ad 34 cm altus, glaber, interdum protuberantiis cor- 
ticis verrucosus. Folium sessile, cordatum, paulum inaequila- 
terale, maximum, quod vidi, ad 30 cm longum, 20 cm latum vel 
ultra (partim ab insectis destructum fuit) basin versus subdense 
pilosum, apicem et circumferentiam versus glabrescens, subtus 
omnino glabrum. Pedicelli 2 ad 7, setoso-pilosi, vidi 2 baud 
plane evolutos ad 20 cm longos, floribus secundis, brevi-pedi- 
cellatis plerumque 2, ebracteatis, 2-3 cm longis. Flores glabri, 
3 mm longi, 2 mm diametro; pedicelli ancipites bialati. Calycis 
basin usque fissi segmenta oblonga vel elliptica, 3,5 mm longa, 
maxima 2 mm, minima 1.5 mm lata, omnia apice obtusa. Flores 
coerulei esse dicuntur, corollae mihi non visae. FI. Januario. 
Luzon, Prov. Cagayan, For. Bur. 13869, 19600 Curran, on rocks in damp 
forests. 
I first was of the opinion that I had to deal with Monophyllaea hirtella 
Miq., but Miquel states that the inflorescence of his species has a “cymose” 
ramification, while in all species of the genus known to me they are 
scorpioid. In general the plant recalls somewhat Monophyllaea Lowii C. 
B. Clarke and M. glauca C. B. Clarke, but the principal characters of 
the present species agree with neither. A peculiar feature, and one not 
previously recorded for the genus, is that the pedicels are ancipitous or 
two-edged and that two of the five calyx-segments are only one-half as 
broad as the other three. 
DICHROTRICHUM Reinwardt 
DICHROTRICHUM CRASSICAULE Kranzl. sp. nov. 
Caulis pars, quae adest, curvata, adscendens, lignosa, grisea, 
ad 30 cm longa, 1.5 ad 1.8 cm crassa, glaberrima, florifera, cete- 
rum aphylla. Pars quaedam superior ad 15 cm longa, subtetra- 
gona, cortice griseo, fragili, sparse setoso tecta, supra pallide 
