106 MERRILL AXD ROLFE. 
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ASPIDOPTERIS A. Juss. 
Aspidopteris ovata (Turcz.) Merrill & Rolfe comb. nov. 
Ryssopferis ovata Turcz. in Biill. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36^ (1863) 58,3. 
Aspidopteris sp. Vidal Phau. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 99. 
Comhretum sexalaium Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 212^ in 
part, excl. For. Bur. 3130 A hern's collector, 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming OJfl, 9Jf5 : Province of Rizal, Novaliches, 
Lohcr 5138j Montalban, Loher 115, 176; Bosoboso, Merrill 2811; For. Bur. 1163, 
1868, 3126, 3321 Ahern's collector: Province of Tayabas, Lueena, Merrill 2891. 
Panay, Miagao, Vidal 2738. TiCAO, Vidal 22/^2. Masbate, Merrill 3380, 
A rather widely diffused and somewhat variable endemic species, apparently 
related to Aspidopteris elliptica A. Juss. It was first described by Turezaninow 
under Hyssopteris, liis type being one of Cuming's numbers cited above. However, 
Vidal, in working up Cuming's plants, overlooked Turczaninow's description and 
entered it in his Phanerogamae Cumingianae Philippinarum as Aspidopteris sp. 
Vombretum sexalatum Merrill, is a mixture, being based on the flowering speci- 
mens of a true Comhretum (p. 116), while the fruiting specimen described is 
Aspidopteris ovata. 
' l^OLYGALACEiK. 
POLYGALA Linn, ' 
Polygala persicariaefolia DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 326; Chodat Monog. Polygal. 
(1891) 331; ^ Wallichiana Chodat 1. c. 
Polyrjnla septemnervia Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 202. 
PiiiLiPPiXES, without locality, Micholitz. Luzon, Province of Benguet, Merrill 
^263, UOl, Panay, Vidal 2090. 
We are of the opinion that Polygala septemnervia Merr., can not be distin- 
guiMiod specifically from P. persicariaefolia DC, it being accordingly here 
reduced. 
British India to southern China and Timor, with some forms in tropical 
Africa. 
Polygala japonica IToutt. Handleid. 10 (1779) 89, t. 62, f. 1; Chodat Monog. 
Polygal. (1891) 353. 
Polygala luzoniensis Merr. in Pliilip. Journ. Sci. 1 (190G) Suppl. 202. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Loher 16SJ ; Merrill /f368. 
Polygala luzoniensis Merrill is apparently only a form of P. japonica and is 
here reduced to that species. 
Japan to Formosa and Celebes. 
Polygala triphylla Ham. in D. Don Prodr. FL Nepal. (1825) 200; Chodat 
1. c. 41. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Kubayan, Merrill JtJf^f2, October, 1905. 
India to soutliern China and Japan; new to the Philippines. 
DICHAPETALAC^E.l^:. 
DICHAPETALUM Dup.-Thouars. 
Dichapetalum luzoniense ^fcrrill & Rolfe sp. nov. § Eudicha petalum. 
Fnitex scaiidens; raiuis juuioribus dense fulvo-pubeseetitibus; foliis 
ellii)tico-ovati8, aciitis vel obscure acuminatis, sUpra nervis exceptis 
elabris, subtus praesertiin ad nervos dense olivaceo-pubescentibus; cymis 
