312 ME. B. A. BOLFE ON THE 



going. Cuming n. 1271, from the same locality, is a vigorous 

 branch with very broad stipules, obovate, very obtuse leaves 

 with cuneate bases, 4-5 in. long by 2|-4 in. broad, short cymes 

 only one third as long as the leaves, and slightly larger flowers ; 

 but I suspect it will prove to be only a form of the above, and not 

 a distinct species.- Neither of these plants is in the Kew Herba- 

 rium. The genus is named in commemoration of Father Fer- 

 nandez Villar, to whose energy we are largely indebted for the 

 third edition of Blanco's ' Flora.' 



Awtibehcea philtppinensis, Bolfe. — Guettardella philippi- 

 nensis, Benth. in Hook. Kew Jburn. iv. p. 197. — Antirrh»a sp., 

 F. Villar, I. c. p. 109. This is enumerated without a specific name. 



Psychotria Tacpo, Bolfe. — Pcederia Tacpo, Blanco, I. c. ed. 1, 

 p. 160 ; ed. 2, p. 113 ; ed. 3, vol. i. p. 202, t. 55.— P. malayana, F, 

 Villa); I. c. p. 112, excl. syn. plur., non Jack. Blanco's plant is 

 referred by Villar to P. malayana, Jack, which is distinct, and 

 must be excluded. 



Composite. 



Vebnonia philippinensis, sp. nov. — Fruticosa, ramulis ferru- 

 gineo-tomentosis striatis teretibus, foliis petiolatis elliptico-ob- 

 longis acuminatis, basi cuneatis, supra puberulis, subtus tomen- 

 tosis, paniculis terminalibus amplis, capitulis pedicellatis circa 

 32-floris, involucro globoso squamis ovatis interioribus oblongis 

 obtusiusculis, achsenio pubescenti 10-striato, pappi setis rufis 

 quam involucrum duplo longioribus. 



Luzon, Prov. Albay, Cuming n. 1092 ! 



This species is much allied to V. Cumingiana, Benth., in Kew 

 Journ. of Bot. iv. p. 233, from Hong Kong, with which the Indian 

 V. Andersoni, Clarke, has been identified; but differs in the 

 broader heads with more numerous flowers, also in the more 

 striate branches, narrower leaf-bases, and the more pubescent, 

 less strongly striate achenes. 



These two species have been, and still are, somewhat confused. 

 Bentham, in his "Florula Hongkongensis," published in the 

 ' Kew Journal of Botany,' /. c, in describing the Hong-Kong 

 plant, gave the specific name Cumingiana, on the assumption 

 that the Philippine plant was identical. Hooker (Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 iii. p. 241), in identifying the Hong-Kong plant with V. Ander- 

 soni, Clarke (Comp. Ind. p. 27), says: — " V. Andersoni, Clarke, V. 

 Cumingiana, Benth., Fl. Hong Kong, p. 170, not of Kew Journ. 



