NOTES ON PHTTJPPINE BOTANY. Ill 
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TRIUMFETTA Plumier. 
Triumfetta repens (Blume) Merrill & Kolfe comb. nov. 
Porparepcns Blume Bijdr. (1825) 198; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1= (1859) 198. 
Triumfetta suhpalmata Soland. ex Hemsl. in Journ. Bot.. 28 (1890) 2, pi. 
293, f. 1, 
Triumfetta procumtcns Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1903) 17, non 
Forst. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines Sur, Merrill 3313, November, 1903; Province 
of Pangasinan, For. Bur. SJiOl Mcrritt. d Gurran, December, 1907. MinoorOj 
Pola, Merrill 2387, May, 1903. 
Hemsley 1. c. has shown that this form is distinct from Triumfetta procumhens 
Forst., but Blume's specific name is much the earlier and is here retained for 
the species. It is the type of the genus Porpa Blume. A cotype of Blume's 
species is in the herbarium of Columbia University, and Dr. C. B. Robinson who 
has examined it informs us that it is identical with the material cited above. 
Seashores, Java, Borneo, islands off the coast of Cochin Cliina, Keeling Islands 
and some groups of islands off the coast of Queensland. 
HIBISCUS Linn. 
Hibiscus syriacus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 695; Masters in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 1 (1874) 344; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 25; Naves 1. c. t. 3^6. 
MiNDORO, Calapan, Bur. Sci. 930 Mangubat, June, 1906. 
The only previous record for this species as a Philippine plant is that of 
F.-Villar, and his work being in general so untrustworthy, it is again recorded 
here. The species occurs in the Philippines only as a cultivated plant, as is the 
case with TJihisciis rosa-sinensis L., If. mutahilis L., and H. sohizopetalus Hook. 
SI DA Linn. 
Sida corylifolia Wall. Cat. (1828) no. 1805; Masters in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind.'l (1874) 342; E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 30 (1892) 240. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Vidal 2169, 2180; For. Bur. 2W7 Ahern's collector. 
The species is not common in the Philippines, and is apparently local, the only 
previous record of the species from the Archipelago being that of Baker, 1. c. 
Burma to southern China, Java and the Pliilippines. 
Sida balabacensis Merrill & Rolfe sp. nov. 
Suffruticopa, erecta; ramis ramulis pedicellis calycibnsque plus minTis 
dense cinereo-stellato-puberulis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, basi rotundatis, 
apice acuminatis, niargine dentatis, subtus leviter puberulis; fioribus 
axillaribus solitariis^ pedicellis circiter medium articulatis, geniculatis, 
usque ad 3 cm longis; earpellis 8, 5 mm longis, verrucosis, apice biros- 
tratis, rostris 4 mm loiigis, retrorso-pilosis. 
Erect, more or less brauclied, suffrute?eeut. Branclic- -omewliat com- 
pressed, densely gray-stoHatc-puberulent or pubescent. Loaves oblong- 
ovate, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the base broad, rounded or 
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