350 
MERRILL. 
tides puberulent, slender, 1 to 2 cm long. Racemes terminal, 
puberulent, comparatively few-flowered, 2 to 5 cm long. Flowers 
opposite, pale-blue; pedicels puberulent, 2 to 3 mm long; brac- 
teoles oblong-spatulate, obtuse, about 2 mm long. Calyx slightly 
puberulent, the lips rounded, about 2.2 mm long, the appendage 
convex, nearly 2 mm in diameter, accrescent and in fruit 5 to 6 
mm in diameter. Corolla 12 to 13 mm long, enlarged upward, 
slightly curved, slightly ciliate on the outside. Nutlets about 1.6 
mm long, minutely verruculose. 
Mindanao, District of Cotabato, Weber 1512 (type), August, 1911, on 
damp rocky banks of streams, altitude about 135 m : District of Zamboanga, 
Sax River, Copeland 1597, February, 1905, Merrill 8210, November, 1911, 
on cliffs and boulders along streams, altitude 100 to 150 m. 
A species manifestly allied to Scutellaria indica Linn., differing especially 
in its stems, leaves, etc. being slightly puberulent, not villous, and its 
somewhat smaller flowers. 
SOLANACEAE. 
SOLAN UM L. ; 
SOLANUM EPIPHYTICUM sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber vel subglaber, simplex vel leviter 
ramosis, ramis griseis, nitidis, teretibus, in siccitate plus minusve 
sulcatis vel angulatis ; f oliis membranaceis, geminis, altero 
oblongo , acuminato, usque ad 17 cm longo, altero ovato, baud 5 
cm longo; floribus 5-meris, axillaribus, 1 ad 5 fasciculatis, pedi- 
cellis 1 ad 2 cm longis; calycis truncatis; fructibus globosis, 
seminibus 2 vel 3, obovatis, minute rugosis. 
An epiphytic glabrous or subglabrous, simple or slightly 
branched shrub usually less than 1 m in length. Stem pale-gray, 
somewhat shining, stout, when dry somewhat striate or angled, 
often a little zigzag, in life somewhat fleshy. Leaves membra- 
naceous, shining, in pairs at each node, one very much larger and 
of different shape than the other: Larger leaves of each pair 
oblong, 10 to 17 cm long, often slightly falcate, acuminate, base 
strongly inequilateral, acute or acuminate ; nerves 5 to 8 on each 
side of the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions indistinct; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Smaller leaves of each 
pair ovate, 2 to 5 cm long, shortly and abruptly acuniinate, acute, 
or obtuse, base usually rounded, subequilateral ; petioles 2 to 5 
mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in fascicles of from 2 to 
5, pedicelled, the pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, slender, slightly thick- 
ened upward. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, not at all toothed, 
about 2 mm long. Corolla white, 6 to 7 mm long, the tube short. 
