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shallow, the lobes rounded to subacute; lateral nerves above the 
basal pair 2 or 3 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, 
the reticulations lax; petioles 2 to 4 cm long; tendrils 5 to 21 
cm long. Inflorescences slender, solitary, from the axils of 
fallen leaves, 20 to 30 cm long, the flowers racemosely arranged 
in the upper part, in the lower part usually few and scattered, 
primary branches up to 2 cm in length. Buds rather thickly 
club-shaped, about 7 mm long. Fruits brown when dry, sessile 
or subsessile, truncate, smooth, 3.5 cm long, about 1.5 cm wide, 
base acute. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 37397 
Ramos & Edaio, November 3, 1919. In forests along streams 
at low altitudes, locally known as lalapid. 
This species is manifestly most closely allied to Alsomitra 
timorana (Spanog.) Roem., from which it differs, among other 
characters, in its entire and very shortly acuminate leaves. 
GYNOSTEMMA Blume 
GYNOSTEMMA LAXUM (Wall.) Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 914. 
Zanonia laxa Wall. Cat. (1831) no. 8727, nomen, Pl. Rar. As. 2 
(1881) 29. 
MINDANAO, Bukidnon Subprovince, Mahilucot River, Bur. Sci. 
88648, 38669 Ramos & Edafo, July, 1920. Altitude about 1,000 
meters, in forests along streams. Local name pogsot. 
India to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
LONICERA Linnaeus 
LONICERA MINDANAENSIS sp. nov. § Nintooa, Breviflorae. 
Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque ex- 
ceptis glaber; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, 
utrinque glabris, oblongo-ovatis vel oblongis, 3.5 ad 6 cm longis, 
basi late rotundatis, apice acutis; floribus terminalibus et in 
axillis superioribus, 2.8 ad 2.5 cm longis, bracteis triangulari- 
ovatis, acuminatis, bracteolis orbiculari-reniformibus, late ro- 
tundatis, 1 mm diametro, corolla extus adpresse villosa. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the sparingly pubescent 
younger parts and the inflorescences and flowers, Branches 
terete, smooth, reddish brown, glabrous, the branchlets slightly 
appressed-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 
oblong-ovate to oblong, 3.5 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 8 cm wide, 
olivaceous and shining on both surfaces, glabrous, base broadly 
rounded, apex acute; lateral nerves slender, about 8 on each 
