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MERRILL. 
CUCURBITACEAE. 
MELOTHRIA L. 
Melothria lobata sp. nov. § Solena, 
Species M. mucronatae valde affinis, differt foliis profunde 
palmato-lobatis. 
A slender, herbaceous, dioecious vine reaching a length of 2 m 
or more, the stems slender, sulcate, glabrous or with very few 
scattered hairs. Leaves ovate in outline, deeply palmately 5- 
lobed, 3.5 to 6 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, membranaceous, dark- 
colored when dry, both surfaces punctate-scabrid with small 
protuberances, slightly hispid on the nerves, the lobes extending 
two-thirds to three-fourths to the base, oblong, obovate, or 
oblong-obovate, acute or obtuse, usually mucronate, sparingly and 
irregularly toothed, the sinuses narrower or about .as broad as 
the lobes, rounded or subacute; nerves 5, palmate; petioles 1.5 
to 3 cm long, glabrous or with few scattered hairs; tendrils 
slender, simple, 5 to 15 cm long, Male flowers not seen. Female 
flowers in axillary, short-peduncled, few-flowered umbels, whitish, 
the peduncles 5 mm long or less, the pedicels usually about 5, 
2 to 2.5 mm long. Ovary oblong-elliptic, about 3 mm long, con- 
stricted below the limb, the cal^-x above the ovary 2.5 to 3 mm 
long. Calyx teeth 5, narrow, short, less than 1 mm long. 
Corolla villous inside, the lobes oblong, acute or obtuse, 2.5 to 
3 mm long. Disk fleshy. Style 3 mm long, 3-lobed at the apex ; 
stigmas flattened, cleft. Fruit not seen. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, along trails, Vanoverbergh 1H1> 
June 11, 1911, altitude about 1,300 m. 
CAMPANULACEAE. 
CAMPANUMOEA Blume. 
Campanumoea truncata (Wall.) Endl. Gen. PI. 1 (1836) 515. 
Codonopsis truncata Wall. Cat. (1829) no. 1301, nomen; A. DC. 
Monogr. Camp. (1830) 122, Prodr. 7 (1839) 423. 
Campanumoea axillaris Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Ill 8 (1888) pi. 1775; HemsL 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1889) 7. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 965, October 27, 1910, 
altitude about 1,450 m, growing in wet places, flowers red. 
Burma and southern China; not previously reported from the Philippines. 
The second species of the genus for the Archipelago, and of special interest 
as it adds another species to the long list of continental types found in 
northern Luzon. 
I can see no valid reason why Wallich's specific name should not be 
accepted for this plant, as Hemsley states, 1. c, that Wallich's plant is 
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