ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, III. 
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margins, the 2 lateral and 2 anterior lobes snbequal to one another, 
definitely shorter than the posterior, linear-lanceolate, ciliate and pointed, 
each lobe with a median nerve, and separated from one another by a 
similar nerve, except that the lateral nerves of the posterior lobe are 
midway between the median nerve and the margin; corolla-tube about 
2.6 mm long, 2-lipped for about 0.6 mm, the posterior lip divided into 
4 subequal lobes to nearly the depth of the sinus between the lips, the 
lower lip entire, all lobes lanceolate-ovate, ciliate near their apices; sta- 
mens 4, hardly declinate, the filaments swollen in the basal half, the 
anterior about 0.6 mm long, the posterior shorter, anthers globose, the 
cells confluent, less than 0.2 mm in diameter; style 2 mm long, shortly 
bifid at the apex; ovary 4-parted, 0.4 mm long, the glands small: fruit- 
ing calyx 5 to 6 m m long, erect or suberect; nutlets ovoid, 0.7 mm long, 
0.4 mm wide, minutely tubercular along very numerous longitudinal 
lines. 
A branching herb, nearly 1 m high, the stems quadrangular except 
near the base, reddish and shortly villose on the angles, greenish and 
more densely pubescent in the furrows : leaves opposite or falsely whorled 
by the presence of similar but smaller ones which are at least sometimes 
the first oil short lateral branches, narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceo- 
late, including the petioles 3 to 7 cm long, 6 to 12 mm wide, the base 
gradually narrowed into the margined petiole, the lamina with 3 to 5 
comparatively large teeth on each margin, acute at the apex, both surfaces 
glabrous or subglabrous except on the veins, densely glandular; pairs 
of veins equal in number to the teeth. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Santa Cruz, Williams 2954 (type) : District of 
Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 7 \1. The species is very distinct from 
A. indicus (Burm.) O. Ktze., in the nature of the inflorescence; it is less 
certainly distinct from A. blumii Benth. ( Ocimum, acrocephalum Blume), but 
the inflorescence of that species is described as capitate, and it has been 
reduced to A. indicus. Blume’s description is so short that it is diflicult to 
draw conclusions. Nearly all the flowers on the type are smaller than herein 
stated, the figures are taken from the largest seen. The plant has much the 
habit of a Dysophylla or of Hyptis spicigera Lam. 
RUBIACEAE. 
MUSSAENDA (Burm.) Linn. 
Mussaenda lanata sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbuscula; inflorescentiis terminalibus, floribus spicatis; 
calycis lobis 5, lanceolatis, deciduis ; corolla aurantiaca, infundibuliforme, 
limbo breviter lobato, lobis margine superiore truncatis apice breviter 
apiculatis; ovario bilocularc, multiovulato : foliis longiter petiolatis, la- 
minis chartaceis, ovatis vel orbicularibus, basi acutis, apice acuminatis 
vel subacutis, venis utrinque circiter 13, tota planta, caulibus vetus- 
tioribus exceptis, dense pubescens. 
