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MERRILL. 
An epiphytic species, growing on Ficus, in leaf-characters, shape, size, texture 
and venation, very close to Vaccinium apoanum Merr., but entirely different in 
floral characters, well distinguished by its small entirely glabrous flowers. 
RUBIAOfbE. 
H EDYOTIS Linn. 
Hedyotis parva Merrill sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, glaber, ca. 1 m altus; foliis lanceolatis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis, 1 ad 2.5 cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, membranaceis, 
breviter petiolatis; floribus axillaribus, glomerato-verticillatis, subsessili- 
bus, ca. 7 mm longis; stipulis setoso-acuminatis, subintegris vel pauce 
pectinato-setosis. 
An erect much branched shrub, glabrous throughout, about 1 m high. 
Branches slender, brown or grayish, 4-angled, the branchlets gray or 
reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, membranous, 1 
to 2.5 cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide, the base acute, the apex acuminate; 
nerves very faint, two or three on each side of the midrib ; petioles 1 to 2 
mm long; stipules short, setose-acuminate, subentire or slightly setose- 
pectinate. Flowers white, in few-flowered axillary sessile or subsessile 
fascicles or cymes, the bracts oblong, obtuse, foliaceous, about 3 mm long. 
Calyx tube ovoid, less than 1 mm long, the lobes oblong-ovate, about 
1.4 mm long. Corolla about 6 mm long, the tube cylindrical, slightly 
pilose within, the lobes oblong-ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long. Fila- 
ments 1.5 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. Capsule, including the erect 
calyx lobes, about 3 mm long. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. J/576 Mearns d- 
Hutchinson, May, 1906: Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 461, April. 
1906. Negros, Mount Silay, For. Bur. 4234 Everett, February, 1906; Whitford 
161'.), May, 1906; Canlaon Volcano, Banks s. n., June, 1906. 
A species with the general aspect of Hedyotis microphylla Merr., but with 
axillary sessile or subsessile inflorescence. 
HYDNOPHYTUM Jack. 
Hydnophytum angustifol ium Merrill sp. nov. 
Ramis tenuibus, usque ad 60 cm longis, diffusis, junioribus furfuraceis, 
plus minus angulatis.; floribus axillaribus faseiculatis, minutis, ca. 2 mm 
longis; foliis coriaeeis, lanceolatis vel anguste lanceolatis, glabris, 5 ad 
10 cm longis, 6 ad IS mm latis; nervis lateralibus obsoletis. 
Tuber irregular, at least 15 cm. in diameter, brown or grayish, unarmed. 
Stems several, diffusely branched, at least 60 cm long, gray or brown, 
slender, the branches elongated, the younger ones brown and furfuraceous, 
somewhat angled. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 10 
cm long, 6 to 18 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile or subsessile, pale 
