PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 35I 
the lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute or somewhat obtuse, about 4 
mm long. Stamens 5, equal; anthers 2 mm long. Style 5 mm 
long. Berry globose, fleshy, at first white, becoming orange or 
red when mature, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, containing but 2, rarely 
3 seeds, the seeds obovate, somewhat compressed, about 5 mm 
long, pale, minutely pitted-rugose. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming 873 (type) : Province of Cagayan, 
But. ScL 7^82 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Ehner 749^. MiN- 
DORO, Alag River, Merrill 6157; South of Lake Naujan, For. Bur, 6895 
Merritt. Mindanao, Butuan Subprovincc, Merrill 7307, Weber 1207: Dis- 
trict of Davao, Copela7id 329: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 428, e. n. 
This species is well characterized by its epiphytic habit, its pale-gray, 
more or less thickened stems, its leaves in very unequal pairs, its solitary 
or fascicled, pedicelled, 5-merous flowers with truncate calyces, and its 2- 
or 3-seeded berries. It has been determined at times as Solanum blumei 
Nees, and at other times as S. parasiticum Blume. It is, from its habit, 
a very different plant from Solanum blmnei Nees, and is at once dis- 
tinguished from jS. parasiticum Bl. by its geminate, not solitary leaves. 
SOLANUM PHILIPPINENSE sp. nov. 
Herba annua, erecta, glabra, dichotoma, inermis, ramis tere- 
tibus, in siccitate plus minusve sulcatis; foliis geminis, membra- 
naceis, acuminatis, basi decurrento-acuminatis, ovatis vel pblong- 
ovatis, altero subdimidio minore; pedunculis filiformibus, uni- 
floris, axillaribus, solitariis geminis temisve; calycis truncatis, 
integerrimis. 
An annual, erect, glabrous, dichotomously "branched herb 1 m 
high or less, the branches terete, more or less sulcate when dry. 
Leaves membranaceous, entire, in pairs at each node, the smaller 
of each pair half as large as the other or smaller, of the same 
shape, acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, the larger ones 7 to 
12 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, their petioles up to 2 cm in length, 
the smaller ones of each pair 2 to 5 cm long, short-petioled. 
Pedicels axillary, slender, solitary, in pairs, or in threes, 1.5 to 3 
cm long, somewhat thickened upward, 1-flowered. Flowers pale- 
yellowish. Calyx cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, 3 mm in diame- 
ter, truncate, not at all toothed. Corolla 6 to 7 mm long, the lobes 
ovate, 2 to 3 mm long, acute or somewhat obtuse. Stamens 
equal; anthers broadly ovoid, about 1.2 mm long. Fruit globose, 
fleshy, red when mature, about 7 mm in diameter. Seeds num- 
erous, pale, somewhat translucent, orbicular-elliptic, flattened, 
smooth, about 1.2 mm long. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas), Elmer 
6561, June, 1904, WilliaTus 1275 (type) July 1, 1904, Bur, Sci. 5406 Ramos, 
December, 1908, Merrill 8003, May, 1911. Mindanao, Sax River MounUins 
back of San Ramon, Merrill 8164, November, 1911. 
