184 ROIUNSON. 
A vine with blackisli bark, the youngest shoots, petioles, petiolules, and 
the under side of the leaves ferruginous-tonientose, older shoots and upper 
side of leaves less markedly but still distinctly pubescent; petioles 2.5-5.2 
cm long, lateral petiolules 3-6 mm long, terminal petiolules 1.2-1.3 em 
long; stipels linear, acute, 3.5-5 mm long; leaflets 3, the lateral 
broadly ovate, obtuse at the apex, 9-9.2 em long, 6.1-6.3 cm wide, with 
4 or 5 pairs of alternate lateral veins, terminal leaflet rhomboid, 7.2 cm 
long, 4.7 cm wide. 
Type collected at Baguio, Province of Beiiguet, Luzon, by R. S. Williams, 
no. 1292, in flower, July 13, 1904. 
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SMITH lA Aiton. 
Smithia ciliata Roylo Illust. Bot. Ilimal. (1839) 201. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Williams 070, September 28, 1904; 
Merrill 4267, October 22, 1905; Bur. Sci. 2502 Mearns, April, 1907. 
Not hitherto reported from the Philippinea. Less widely distribiitod in the 
Archipelago than 8. sensitiva Aiton, which has been collected in both Luzon and 
Mindanao. 
STRONG YLODON Vogel. 
( 
Strongylodon pulcher sp. nov. 
Seandens, lignosus; floribus fascicnlatis in rhachidibus tuberculatis 
dispositis, pulchris, 3.5 cm longis, omnibus florum partibus pnrpureo- 
lineatis; foliis trifoliolatis, petiolo longo suffultis, foliolis lateralibus 
)blongis, valde inaequilateralibus, apice acuminatis, 11.5-13.3 cm longis, 
foliolo terminali laneeolato-ovato^ 14.5-15 cm longo. 
Flowers in fascicles of 1-3, borne on more or less persistent tubercles 
1 mm long and 1.5 mm wide and usually winged by the ovate, 1.5 mm 
long^ somewhat persistent bracts; the fascicles arranged on green or 
brown, glabrous rachises 6-7 cm long and 1.5 mm in thickness, apparently 
only on leafless stems or branches; peduncles of mature flowers 1.5-2.5 
cm long, 0.2 mm thick, gradually decreasing in length towards the apex 
of the rachis; bracteole inserted at the base of the calyx, suborbicular, 
truncate at the base, 5-7-lined, the margins subhyaline, ciliate, the 
bracteoles at the tips of the flowering shoots especially conspicuous: 
calyx cylindric-campanulate, 7 mm long, 5.5 mm wide, green, villose, its 
lobes very short, ciliate, rounded; corolla attaining a length of 3.5 cm, 
varicolored; keel scimitar- shaped, 3.2 cm long, 3.5 mm wide, acute at 
the apex, contracted at the base into a claw 6-7 mm long ; wings rather 
less than 2 cm long^ including a claw 7 mm long, beyond it suddenly 
expanded into an oblong limb 6.5 mm wide rounded at the apex and 
auricled on the lower side of the base; standard 3.5 cm long, 1 em wide, 
elliptic-lanceolate; staminal tube 4 cm long^ marked like the calyx and 
petals with purplish longitudinal lines; pistil at anthesis ciliate-tomentose. 
