XIV, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 455 
An undershrub, up to 40 cm high, branched from the base, 
the stems terete, about 4 mm in diameter, the branchlets brown- 
ish, slender, somewhat pubescent with very short hairs. Leaves 
lanceolate, membranaceous, those of each pair similar in shape 
but unequal in size, one usually one-third to one-half smaller 
than the other, 5 to 13 cm long, 1 to 2.7 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed to the acuminate apex and base, the margins some- 
what undulate, the upper surface glabrous, brownish-olivaceous, 
the lower pale, glabrous or when young very slightly pubescent 
on the midrib and nerves ; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side of 
the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations 
very lax; petioles 3 to 10 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary 
or in pairs, white, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, about 5 cm 
long, each subtended by a pair of foliaceous spathelike bracts 
which inclose the calyx, being united by their margins in the 
lower 4 mm, these bracts 1.5 to 1.7 cm long, glabrous or nearly 
so, prominently acuminate, up to 9 mm wide below. Calyx ob- 
long, about 7 mm long, slightly pubescent, subequally 5-lobed, 
the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long. Corolla 4.5 to 5 cm 
long, pilose with long scattered hairs externally, the lower 1 cm 
of the tube very slender, not exceeding 2 mm in diameter, then 
broadened, the throat, when flattened, about 1.5 cm wide, sub- 
equally 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, rounded, about 1 cm long. Disk 
cylindric, glabrous, 2 mm long, somewhat crenate. Ovary gla- 
brous. Stamens about 3 cm long. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 
Bur. Sci. 33078 Ramos, August 29, 1918, along small streams in 
forests at low altitudes. 
This species belongs in the group with, and is closely allied 
to, Cyrtandra livida Kranzl. and C. agusanensis Elm., from both 
of which it differs notably in its very much larger flowers, while 
the leaves are merely undulate, not toothed. 
ACANTHACEAE 
HEM IGRAPHIS Linnaeus 
HEMIGRAPHIS N U M M ULARI FOLIA sp. nov. 
Herba glabra, tenuis, ramosis, prostratis vel subprostratis ; 
foliis orbicularis ad orbiculari-ovatis, integris, 5 ad 10 mm longis; 
floribus axillaribus, solitariis, ebracteolatis, circiter 1.3 cm 
longis, calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, 6.5 mm longis; 
capsulis anguste oblongis, 9 mm longis. 
A slender, much-branched herb, the main branches spreading 
or prostrate, up to 20 cm long, the secondary branches more or 
