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2 to 3.5 cm wide, the base acute, the apex rather slenderly 

 and very sharply acuminate, the margins in the upper one-half 

 or two-thirds with distant, small, usually appressed, sharp teeth, 

 dull, the upper surface pale-yellowish to olivaceous when dry, 

 the lower surface paler and more or less glaucous, the nerves 

 and reticulations distinct ; petiolule of the middle leaflet 7 to 10 

 mm long, the common one of the lateral leaflets usually a little 

 longer, their petiolules proper 3 to 4 mm long. Peduncles leaf- 

 opposed, slender, 7 to 9 cm long, forked, bearing the inflorescence 

 and a slender, usually forked tendril. Cymes subumbellate, the 

 flowers few, 6 to 15 in the material examined, umbellately 

 arranged, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, the bracteoles oblong- 

 ovate, 1 mm long. Calyx shallow, very obscurely 5-toothed, 

 1.2 mm in diameter. Petals 5, free, purple, oblong, obtuse, 2 

 mm long, cucullate. Filaments about 1 mm long, more or less 

 flattened; anthers orbicular-ovoid, 0.5 mm long. Ovary ap- 

 parently purple, ovoid, distinctly 5-angled, 1 to 1.2 mm long, 

 the style none. Fruit dark-purple or nearly black, fleshy, globose, 

 7 to 9 mm in diameter when dry and often somewhat glaucous, 

 containing three or four seeds. Seeds narrowly obovoid, 6 mm 

 long, smooth and shining, the base acute, the apex rounded, the 

 two internal faces concave, the back convex, with a median, 

 longitudinal, shallow depression bearing the linear-oblong 

 chalaza ; albumen T-shaped in cross-section. 



Luzon, Province of Zambales, Baquilin River, For. Bur. 6957 Curran 

 (type), May 9, 1907, clambering over shrubs in dry river bed: Province 

 of Bataan, Lamao River, Merrill S280, October, 1903, in thickets on bluffs 

 along the seashore: Province of Union, San Fernando, Bur. Sci. 21116 

 Escritor, June, 1913. Cuyo, Bur. Sci. 21863 Escritor, July, 1913. Pala- 

 wan, Taytay, Merrill 9377, May, 1913, in thickets along the seashore. 

 Calusa, Bur. Sci. 15659 Fenix, July, 1912. 



A species well characterized by its pedately 5- to 7-foliolate leaves, its 

 sharply acuminate leaflets which are more or less glaucous beneath, and its 

 slenderly peduncled, few-flowered inflorescences. 



AMPELOCISSUS MULTIFOLIOLA sp. nov. § Kalocissus. 



Frutex scandens subtus foliis petiolis ramulis inflorescentiisque 

 dense rufo-tomentosis, vel ramulis pallide tomentosis, foliis 

 pedatim 13-foliolatis, foliolis anguste oblongis vel oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acuminatis supra repando- 

 dentatis; inflorescentiis pedunculatis, spicis numerosis, patulis, 

 gracilis, 2 ad 5 cm longis; floribus 5-meris, glabris, brevibus; 

 fructibus carnosis, ellipsoideis, 2 cm longis. 



A scandent tendril-bearing shrub, the branches terete, tomen- 

 tose with rather long, matted hairs which in age become nearly 



