PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 411 
L trifoliata Liun. 
Sabtan, 3724 Fenix. 
Not common in the Philippines; tropical Asia to southern China, Malaya and 
Australia, but not known from Formosa. 
I. teysmanni Miq. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3190 Mearns. 
Rather common and widely di^stributed in the Philippines; southern China and 
Formosa through Malaya to New Caledonia. See Prain and Baker in Journ. 
Bot. 40 (1902) 143. 
VIGNA Savi. 
V. luteola (Jacq.) Benth. 
Camiguin, 4064 Fenix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
OXALTDACE^. 
OXALIS Linn. 
O. repens Thunb. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3209 Mearns; 3691 F4nix. N. v., Pichic. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical and temperate parts of the 
World, closely allied to Oxalis corniculata Linn. 
ZYGOPHYLLACE^. 
TRIBULUS T^inn. 
T. cistoides Linn. 
Fug a, 3247 Mearns, 
Not common in the Philippines; widely distributed in tropical and warm 
regions of the World. 
KUTACE^. 
FAGARA Linn. 
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F. integrifoliola Merr. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3584 F4nix. N. v., Baroc. 
Rather widely distributed in the central and northern Philippines; endemic. 
M ELI COPE Forst. 
M. luzonensis Engl. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, S215, 3235 Mearns; 3603 F^nix. N. v., 
Ydacacayo. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
LUNASIA Blanco. 
Lunasia babuyanica sp. nov. 
Differt a Lunasia amava fructibus processibns mollibiis dense stellato- 
tomentosis circiter 5 mm longis obtectis. 
A shrub, with the general appearance of Lunasia amara Blanco, but 
with qnite different fruits. Brandies, branchlets, inflorescence, the lower 
surface of the leaves and midrib above rather densely pale-stellate-pubes- 
cent. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblong, 20 to 30 cm long, 8 to 12 cm 
wide, submembranous, shining, the apex shortly and abruptly blunt-acu- 
minate, narrowed below toward the acute base, entire, the upper surface 
