NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
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A tree 10 to 20 m high. Branches brownish, glabrous, the young 
parts sometimes slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, 5-foliolate, the 
common petiole 6 to 15 cm long, glabrous or somewhat pubescent: leaf- 
lets chartaceous or membranaceous, ovate to elliptic-ovate, petiolulate, 7 
to 16 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, entire, base acute, apex acuminate, the 
upper surface glabrous and shining, or the midrib and nerves slightly 
pubescent, the lower surface slightly paler, more or less pubescent, or 
ultimately glabrous or nearly so, not at all glandular; nerves 15 to 20 on 
each side of the midrib, prominent, anastomosing; petiolules 5 to 15 mm 
long, those of the lateral leaflets the shortest. Cjrmes axillary, solitary, 
pedunculate, 10 to 15 cm long, in an thesis more or less pubescent, in 
fruit nearly glabrous. Flowers purplish, tinged with white, the bracteoles 
very small. Calyx cup-shaped, somewhat pubescent, about 4 mm long, 
regularly 5-toothed, the teeth less than 1 mm long, broadly ovate, acute 
or acuminate. Corolla about 11 mm long, somewhat pubescent outside, 
the tube 5 to 6 mm long, inflated upwards; middle lobe of the lower lip 
narrowly obovoid, rounded, crisped, 6 to 7 mm long, densely villous on 
the median portion inside, the lateral lobes and the upper lip 3 to 4 mm 
long. Filaments slightly villous below. Ovary ovoid, villous at the 
apex ; style glabrous, 9 mm long. Fruit black when dry, glabrous, oblong- 
ovoid, rounded at the apex, about 1 cm long, the calyx persistent, accres- 
cent, somewhat saucer-shaped, 6 to 7 mm in diameter. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Siocon River, For. Bur. 9^90 Whitford cC- 
Hutchinson, February, 1908; For. Bur. 112^5 Hutchinson, March, 1908. A speci- 
men collected by R. S. Williams, No. 29J/9, in the District of Davao, Mindanao, 
is probably referable here; it is with mature fruits, and is entirely glabrous. 
This species is most closely allied to Vitex littoralis Dene. ; but is at once 
distinguishable by its five leaflets which are not at all glandular beneath. It is 
distinguished from V. turezaninowii Merr. by its purplish, not yellow flowers, 
non-glandular leaves and inflorescence, and other characters. It is locally known 
as Malaun aso, and to the Moros as Calipapa aso. 
ACANTHACE2E. 
JUSTICIA Linn. 
Justicia tenuis sp. nov. 
Herba. annua, suberecta, diffusa, vel procumbens, usque ad 20 cm alta ; 
foliis membranaeeis, ovatis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, 
ramis ramulisque angulatis, plus minus hirsutis; inflorescentiis spicatis, 
terminalibus axillaribusque, tenuibus; bracteis lanceolatis vel ovatis, acu- 
minatis; calycis segmentis 5, anguste lanceolatis, acuminatis, hyalinis; 
corolla 2-lobata, lobis imbricatis; seminibus 4, verrucosis. 
An annual, suberect, diffuse, or procumbent, rather weak herb, 20 cm 
high or less. Stems and branches slender, angled, more or less covered 
with weak white hairs, the leaves also with a few similar ones. Leaves 
ovate, 1 to 2 cm long, membranaceous, acute or slightly acuminate, the 
base broad, rounded; I jtioles very short. Spikes many, slender, short, 
