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Scaevola mindorensis sp. nov. § Enantiophyllum. 
Species praecedenti valde affinis, differt foliis pro rata latioribus, mar- 
gine distincte simiato-dentatis, subtus plus minus, pubescentibus, ramulis 
leviter pilosis, inflorescentiis floribusque dense pubescentibus. 
A scandent herbaceous vine similar to Scaevola acuminatissima, differ- 
ing in the points above indicated. Branches brown or grayish, striate, 
pilose, the younger ones rather densely so. Leaves ovate-oblong, mem- 
branaceous, 5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, base acute, apex slenderly 
subcaudate-acuminate, margins distinctly sinuate-dentate, the lower sur- 
face with numerous, short, scattered, spreading hairs, the upper surface 
glabrous or with very few hairs. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1 to 2 cm 
long, densely pubescent, each usually bearing three flowers, and also two 
much reduced leaves at the apex, the pedicels about 5 mm in length, the 
bracteoles 1.5 mm long. Flowers yellow, 5-merous. Calyx-tube 4 mm 
long, rather densely pubescent, the lobes 5, lanceolate, about 5 mm long, 
1.2 to 1.4 mm wide, acuminate. Corolla outside rather strongly pubes- 
cent, villous within, 2.2 cm long, the lobes 8 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide, 
3-nerved, the tube 15-nerved. Filamants glabrous. Style glabrous, 13 
mm long, the cup surrounding the stigma not only densely ciliate on the 
margins, but also with numerous long white cilia on the outside. 
Mindoro, Mount Sablayan, For. Bur. 9756 Merritt, March 2, 1908, on the 
exposed cleared summit at an altitude of about 1,000 m. 
Specimens sent to Kew for comparison were reported as “nearest 8. similis 
Hemsl., but with longer peduncles.” It differs also from that species, as described, 
in its 5-merous, not 4-merous, much larger flowers and its different calyx-teeth. 
Scaevola sericea Forst. Prodr. (1786) 89; Presl Eel. Haenk. 2 (1830) 57; 
DC. Prodr. 7 (1839) 506. 
Luzon, Haenke in Herb. Mus. Konigr. Bohmen, Prague : Province of Ilocos 
.Sur, Salomague, Merrill 339. 
This species is apparently much less common in the Philippines than is 
8. koenigii Vahl, and is to me sufficiently distinct from VahlV species to warrant 
being given specific rank, although recent authors have treated it as a synonym 
of 8. koenigii Vahl. It differs from S. koenigii in being pubescent throughout, the 
inflorescence very densely so. I have what is apparently the same form from 
Java, and from the Caroline Islands, Yap, Volkens 133, distributed as 8. koenigii 
Vahl. 
Scaevola micrantha Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1830) 59; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 
(1856) 582; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 121. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, on barren rocky hills, altitude about 120 m, near 
Calanaga, Batan Island, Bur. Sci. 6289 Robinson, August 23, 1908. I have also 
examined the type in the herbarium of the Museum des Konigreichs Bohmen, 
Prague, and find it to be quite the same as the specimen collected by Doctor 
Robinson. Haenke’s specimen probably came from what is now the Province 
of Albay, or from Sorsogon. 
The species is a very distinct one, as indicated by Presl. It is, perhaps, most 
closely allied to 8. plumieri Vahl, but its flowers are less than 1 cm in length. 
