ROBINSON. 
210 
half this length ; style 4 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, the stigma when young 
broadly clavate, when mature attaining a length of 2.7 mm and a width 
of 1.6 mm, obscurely 2-lobed at the apex, each lobe showing still more 
obscure traces of further division; capsule borne on a stalk now 4.8 mm 
long, its own length 5. 5-6. 6 cm, before dehiscence. 1-1.3 mm in diameter, 
with numerous seeds; seeds dark-brown, minutely papillose, in outline 
oblanceolate or nearly ellipsoid, 1.2 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, distinctly 
narrowed at both ends but abruptly at the apex; coma white, 8-10 
mm long. 
Stems greenish to purplish, slightly woody, simple or near the apex 
slightly branching, 15-50 cm high, near the base 1-2.5 mm in diameter, 
terete or near the apex slightly angled, uniformly pubescent with short 
whitish ap pressed or slightly spreading hairs ; leaves opposite or near 
the apex often alternate, the lamina glabrescent on the upper surface, 
minutely pubescent beneath, ovate to lanceolate, near the middle of the 
stem 1.4-2. 8 cm long and 8-11 mm wide, slightly decreasing in size near 
the base of the stem, and very distinctly near its apex, passing into bracts, 
glandular-serrate on the margins and usually glandular-tipped at the 
apex, rounded near the base but becoming slightly decurrent upon the 
petioles, which are 0.5-1. 5 mm long, those of opposite leaves usually 
connate and somewhat deeurrent ; lateral veins on each side of the midrib 
4 or 5. 
Type collected on dry grassy slopes in pine forest on Mount Data, District 
of Lepanto, Luzon, by E. D. Merrill, no. k-hS-u in flower and fruit, November 3, 1905. 
Further represented by the following collections from Lepanto and Benguet : 
Merrill Jf561, Mount Data, flowers and fruit, November 4, 1905; Pauai, Bur. Sci. 
7/353 Mearns, flowers, July, 1907; Bugias, Merrill 7/665, flowers and fruit, October, 
1905; Baguio to Ambuldao, Merrill 7/379, flowers and fruit, October 24, 1905; 
Mount Santo Tomas (Tonglon), Williams 157/1, fruit, November 29, 1904. 
This genus has not hitherto been reported from the Philippines except by the 
generic name. 
Epilobium platystigmatosum sp. nov. 
Praecedenti affine : floribus racemosis, caulis dimidiam superiorem 
partem occnpantibns, regularibus, tetrameris; petalis plus minus alte 
bilobatis, stigmate orbieulari-ovali ; foliis linearibus vel sublinearibus, 
denticulatis serratis vel sinuosis, basi graclatim in petiolum anguste 
marginatum contractis. 
Flowers regular, forming a terminal raceme extending about half the 
length of the plant; at anthesis the ovary 1-2 cm long, borne on a 
peduncle about 6 mm long; calyx -lobes 4, elliptic-lanceolate, 2.6-4 mm 
long, 1-1.7 mm wide, at the ajjex shortly acuminate with involute mar- 
gins; petals 4, pink, 3. 3-4. 5 mm long, 2 mm wide, at the apex divided 
more or less deeply, even to beyond the middle into 2 rounded lobes 
several-veined; stamens 8, the anthers broadly oval, 0.4 mm long, the 
filaments alternately longer and shorter, about 1.5 mm, and half this 
