XI - C ' 6 Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianae 287 



Amboina, Hatiwe, Rel. Robins. 1773, September 15, 1915, on hillsides, 

 altitude about 150 meters locally known as sapar. 



Borneo and the Philippines to northeastern Australia and Polynesia. 



ZIZYPHUS Linnaeus 



ZIZYPHUS HORSFIELDII Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 ■ (1856) 643 ? 



Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 177 U, November 1, 1913, climbing 

 over trees at an altitude of about 100 meters. 



The identification has been made with Miquel's species from the published 

 description alone, the specimens agreeing fairly well with the characters 

 assigned to it by him. The specimen presents only immature fruits, 

 so that the identification cannot be considered certain; Miquel's species has 

 been reported from Sumatra and Java. The Amboina specimen rather 

 closely resembles the Philippine Zizyphus crebrivenosa C. B. Rob., but 

 differs in its pubescent fruits and in its much less prominent transverse 

 nerves which are reticulate-interrupted, not straight and continuous as 

 in Robinson's species. 



VENTILAGO Gaertner 

 VENTILAGO FASCICULIFLORA sp. nov. 



Frutex scan dens, ramulis junioribus floribusque leviter ciliato- 

 hirsutis exceptis glaber; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis in 

 siccitate pallidis, nitidis, usque ad 11 cm longis, acuminatis, dis- 

 tanter glanduloso-denticulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5 ; floribus 

 fasciculatis, axillaribus, pedicellatis, pedicellis calycibusque cilia- 

 to-hirsutis, petalis latissime obovatis, late retusis, lobis patulis, 

 rotundatis. 



A scandent shrub, the young branchlets, pedicels, and calyces 

 more or less ciliate-hirsute, the hairs on the branchlets subap- 

 pressed, those on the pedicels and calyces spreading. Branches 

 very slender, terete, smooth, dark reddish-brown, the younger 

 ones greenish. Leaves oblong-ovate, chartaceous, pale and 

 shining when dry, 7 to 11 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, apex rather 

 prominently acuminate, the acumen rather broad, apiculate, base 

 subacute to somewhat rounded, somewhat inequilateral, margins 

 distantly and minutely glandular-denticulate ; lateral nerves about 

 5 on each side of the midrib, slender, curved-ascending, distinct, 

 the reticulations close, fine; petioles 3 to 4 mm long, glabrous. 

 Flowers yellowish-green, about 3 mm in diameter, all in axillary 

 fascicles, 8 to 12 flowers in a fascicle, their rather prominently 

 ciliate-hirsute pedicels 3 to 4 mm in length. Calyx-segments 

 triangular-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, externally ciliate-hirsute 

 with scattered hairs. Petals glabrous, broadly obovate, base 

 narrowed, apex broadly retuse, the lobes spreading, rounded, the 

 petals wider at the apex than long. Stamens glabrous, about 1.3 

 mm long. Ovary glabrous ; styles 2, short. Fruit not seen. 



