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CHONEMORPHA 0. Don. 
Chonemorpha eiliptica (Blanco) Merrill & Rolfe comb. nov. 
Tahcrnacmontami elHptira Blanco Fl. Kilip. (1837) 115; ed. 2 (1845) 83; c.l. 
3, 1:152; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1SS3) 132. ly U 
Chonemorpha ma<ytophylJa Meir. in Govt. Lab. TubL-d* (lOQ^) 45, imn Don. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 37t)^; For. Bur. 11)1 Ahern's 
collector; Bur. Set. 1065 Ramos; Loher 3881; San Mateo, Vida.1 3265. 
The Pliilippine form cannot with propriety be referred to Chonemorpha macro- 
phtjlla G. Don, as it has flowers about one-lialf the size of those of the latter and 
differs in some other characters. As the specimens above cited represent a 
different species, Blanco's specific name is here adopted, because this is certainly 
the plant that Blanco described under the name Ta:berruiemontana cWpiica. 
ALYXIA R. Br. 
. Alyxia lucida Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. 2 (1824) 540; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. lud. 3 (1HS2) 635; King & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74= 
(1907) 418. 
CULION, Merrill GJJf, December, 1902. 
Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo; new to the Philippines. 
WRIGHTiA R. Br. 
Wrightia calycina A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 406; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1856) 
433. 
GuiMARAS, For. Bur. 228 Gammill. Masbate, Merrill 3082, 30^0. Palawan, 
For. Bur. ffSlO Curran. 
The above specimens agree very closely in all essential characters with authen- 
tic specimens of this species from Timor, in Herb. Kew. 
Timor. 
ASCLEPIADACEyE. 
ISCHNOSTEMMA King & Gamble. 
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Ischnostemma carnosum (R. Br.) Merrill & Rolfe comb. nov. 
Oxyslclma carnosum R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 462. 
Vincctoxicum carno,si/w Bentb. Fl. Austral. 4 (1860) 331. 
Cijnaurhum cornosum Schltr. in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 120. 
Isch7iostcmma s€Un<joriea King & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74= (190O 
532 
" Lrzox, Loher ^OSfl, ¥>¥>: Province of Hataaii, Lamao River, ^VilUams 387, 
December, 1903. . v i „ 
In 1907 King and Gamble described the above monotypie genus, based on 
specimens colle<.ted in Selangor by Ridley and tbe specimens collected by Loher 
in Luzon, cited above. In 1904, however, Schlechtcr had identified the second of 
Loher-s two numbers as Oxysichm, carnosnm K. Br., and transferred the species 
to Cynanohnm. In working over the material at Kew, the same number of Loher s 
collection being found cited under both the above geneva, Mr. N. E. Brown 
specialist on AscWunlacew at Kew, was asked to compare the specimens with 
Robert Brown's type of Oxysichn,i carnosum. Both the type in llie British 
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