THE FLORA OF MOUNT PULOG. 
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VAN DELLI A Linn. 
1. V. Crustacea (L.) Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 (1846) 413. 
In the pine region, ascending to an altitude of about 1,800 m, G. M. Z. 16039. 
Abundant and widely distributed in the Philippines; widely distributed in the 
Tropics of the world. 
VERONICA Linn. 
Veronica monantha Merrill sp. nov. § Beccabunga, Galyoinae. 
Herba annua, repens, parce pilosa; foliis oppositis, late ovatis, pance 
crenato-serratis, petiolatis; floribus tetra,meris, axillaribus, pedicellatis, 
solitariis; capsulis late obcordatis, compressis, valvis snbmembranaceis ; 
seminibus pancis, ellipsoideis. 
An annual creeping herb, the stems reaching a length of 15 cm, 
■slender, all parts with scattered, weak, crisped, white hairs. Leaves 
broadly ovate, about 8 mm long and wide, thin, opposite, the bpse 
broad, truncate, the apex acute, the margins with two or three rather 
coarse crenate-dentate teeth; nerves few, anastomosing, the reticulations 
lax; petioles nearly as long as the leaves. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
white, 4-merous, their pedicels about 6 mm long; braeteoles two, at about 
the lower third of the pedicel, oblong, ■ 1-nerved, 3.5 mm long. Sepals 
4, oblong, acute, thin, with a midnerve and two marginal nerves, the 
latter joining the midnerve near the apex with a single anastomosis, 
about 4 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, somewhat accrescent. Corolla white, 
campanulate, 4.5 to 5 mm long, the lobes rounded, the widest ones 
3.3 mm in width; tube less than 0.5 mm long. Filaments about 4 
mm long; anthers 1 mm long, hairy. Ovary ovoid, compressed, 1 
mm long; style 3 mm in length. Capsule thin, compressed, broadly 
obcordate, 6 mm wide, 4 mm long, slightly cleft at the apex or subentire, 
dehiscing at the apex, the valves thin; seeds about 12, ellipsoid, about 1 
mm long, compressed, biconvex. 
In the mossy forest, associated with Ellisiophyllum and Peracarpa, in dense 
thickets just below the lower limits of the summit grass lands, Merrill 6593, 
May, 1909; rare. 
The first representative of the genus to he found in the Philippines, and ap- 
parently allied to a group of species characteristic of Australia and New Zealand. 
SOPUBIA Ham. 
1. S. trifida Ham. in Don Prodr. (1825) 88. 
In the pine region, ascending to an altitude of 2,100 m, G. M. Z. 160^0. 
Known in the Philippines only from the Benguet-Lepanto region; Himalayan 
region, Khasia Mountains, Deccan Peninsula, Ceylon, and southern China. 
EUPHRASIA Linn. 
1. E. borneensis Stapf. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II 4 (1894) 210. 
Lower limits of the mossy forest, Merrill 61^91, and in the open grass lands of 
the summit, G. M. Z. 16038, McGregor 8886. 
In the Philippines known only from higher altitudes in the Benguet-Lepanto 
region; Mount Kinabalu, northeastern Borneo. Closely allied to New Zealand 
forms. 
