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appears to be the same as Gardamine dehilis Banks &, Solander, auJ this may 
not improbably have been Forster's typical SLsyinhrium heterophyllum, but tlie 
Mindanao form difl'ers from the Tasmanian {Ounn 466) in the size of the 
flowers and otherwise. It does not appear where Forster*s var. a was met with, 
but the probability is that it was in New Zealand. The material is hardly 
sufficient to warrant tlie establislnnent of a new species, even if the plant 
discovered on Mount Malindang by Mearna & Hutchinson be identical with 
Forster's single gathering. ( J. R. D.) 
CAPl^AKIDACE.I]. 
CAPPARIS Linn. 
m 
Capparis Cumingii Merrill & Rolfe sp. nov. 
Scandens, glabra; spinis inillis vel miriTitis; foliis obloiigiSj subcoriaccis^ 
usque ad 11 cm longis, basi rotund atis^ apice breviter et late acuminatis, 
nervis ntrinque 7 vel 8; paniculis terminalibus^ floribus ad apices ramu- 
lorum subumbellatis dispositis; baccis globosis. 
Scandent, glabrous throughout. Branches terete, at least the upper 
portions spineless, the panicle-branches sometimes subtended by two 
small spines. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 9 to 11 cm long, 3 to 5 cm 
wide, the base rounclod, the apex short, broadlj- acuminate; nerves 7 or 8 
on each side of the midrib; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long. Inflorescence a 
terminal panicle about 20 cm long, the primary branches stout, spread- 
ing, the lower ones o to 7 cm long, the flowers subumboUatcly disposed 
at the ends of the branches, 3 to 10 flowers on each branchlet, their 
pedicels 1 to 2.5 cm long. Buds globose. Flowers rather large. Sepals 
4, concave, imbricate, ovate, rounded, 1 cm long or less. Petals obovate 
or oblong, 2 cm long or less. Stamens indefinite, tlieir fihuncnts 2.5 
cm long; the stipe to the ovary 3 to 3.5 cm long. Fruit globopp, glabrous, 
2 cm in diameter, the pedicel thickened above. 
Luzox, Province of Albay, Cuming J234. 
A charaeteri:stic speciefs, distinguiahahle by its oblong suhcurlaceous leaves and 
terminal panicles of rather large flowers, the flowers being long-pedicelled and 
fascicled at the ends of the branches. 
CUNONIACE.l^. 
SPIRAEOPSIS Miq. 
Spiraeopsis celebica Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. V (1857) 719; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. 
(1892) 57. 
Luzon, Province of Camarincs Sur, INTount Isarog, Tidal 2719, in Herb. Kew. 
This monotypic genus is, so far as is known, confined to Celebes and Luzon, 
and has previously been credited to the Philippines in the rather obscure "Cata- 
logo de las Plantas del TTcrbario," published in ]\Tanila in 1892. In vievr of its 
special interest in adding a species belonging to a luunotypic genus to the already 
long list known only from Celebt^s and the Philippines, it is again enumerated 
here. 
