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4. Freycinetia luzonensis Pre«l Epim. But. (1851) 238; \V:irb. in PHanzen- 
reich 3 (1900) 3o; Miq. FI. Iml. Bat. 3 (1859) 172; Vidal Phati. Cummg. Philip 
(1885) 154; Kev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 280. 
Freycinetia cumingiana Gaudicli. Bot. Voy. Bonite (1843) /. GO et t. 31, f. 
12-iJ,, sine descr.; C. B. Robinson in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 35 (1!*(>8) 04. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines Rur, Cuming Ur,5; Mount Tsarog, For. Bur. 
11301 Curran, May, 1908. 
I have examined the nundx-r collected by Cuming, cited above, in the Kew 
and Berlin Iierbaria, and find tliat PresPa species is distinct from the form 
previously determined by me as F, luzonensis Presl.=' It is possible that moi-e 
than one form is included by Presl in the original description of the species, but 
this can only be determined by an examination of the material in Presl's her- 
barium. The specimens I have seen of Cimiing's number, seem to agree perfectly 
Avith the figure of F. cumingiana Gaudich., which, following Warburg, is here 
considered to be a synonym of F. luzonensis. Although the plate representing 
Gaudichaud^s species was published some years earlier than Presl's species, still 
the description of the plate, but no description of the plant, was not published 
until 1806 in Charles d' AUeizette's explanation of the plates, 3: 133. Dr. 
Robinson considered that the Freycinetia luzonensis of recent botanists, including 
Warburg, was diflferent from F. luzonensis of Presl, but I am inclined to consider 
that Warburg correctly interpreted PresFs species, and also correctly reduced 
to it Gaudichaud's F. cumingiana. The material that has been considered as 
F, luzonensis Presl, in this office, and distributed as such, certainly does not 
represent Presl's species, and is below described as new. 
5. Freycinetia vidalii Hemsl. in Kew Bull. (1890) 106; Warb. 1. c. 30. 
Freycinetia confusa Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1007) 213; non Ridley, Mater. 
Fl. Malay Penin. 2 (1907) 233. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Viscaya, Bayombon, Vidal 3D6.'f in Herb. Kew 
(type) : Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer i)001, type, of F. confusa Elm. 
I have examined the type of this species in the Kew Herbarium, and Elmer's 
Freycinetia confusa is manifestly identical. The species belongs in the section 
OUgostigma, although Warburg placed it in the section Pleiosfigma. The type 
is an immature specimen, and there is notliing in the original diagnosis from 
which the proper section can be determined. 
0. Freycinetia robtnsonii sp. nov. § Oligosiiyma. 
Scandens, 2 ad 4 m alta; raiuis 1.5 ad 2 cm diametro, rainulis 3 ad o 
nun crassis; foliis subnioiiibraiiaceis, angiiste lanceolatis, circiter 20 cm 
longis, 1 ad 2 cm latis, basi plus minus angustatis vaginantibusque, apice 
sont^jm acmuinatis, vulgo toto margine et subtus in costis spinuloso- 
serratis; inflorescentiis tcrminalilnis, spadicibus fomineis 4 vel 5, bracteis 
multis rubris 6 ad 7 cm longis oblongo-ovatis candato-acuminatis, acumi- 
nibud spinuloso-serratis, exterioril>ns foliaceis, cireumdatis; spadicibus 
fructiforis cylindraceis, oblongis, 3 ad 3 cm longis, 1 a<l 1.5 cm crassis; 
fructilms circiter 5 mm longis, apice angiilato-pvraniidaiis; stigmatibus 
2 vel 3; pcduncnlis 3 cm longis, scabris. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Merrill 37!U, January, 1004; B'i7- 
liams ,UH, Deceml)er, 1003; For. Hur. 210',, 2H21 Meyer; For. Bur. Lu! 2'tiiii, 
3031 (typo) Bonlen; Whitfor^l 13/1, June, 1005 and s. n., July, 1004; Copeianit 
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Phiiip. Jonrn. 8cL 1 (1006) Siippl. 25. 
