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Amboina, Paso, Rel. Robins. 1818, October 31, 1913, in thickets near the 

 beach. 



A species well characterized by its axillary fascicled flowers, the fascicles 

 constantly solitary, never arranged in racemes as in most of the other 

 species of the genus. 



VITACEAE 



LEE A Royen 

 LEEA sp. 



Amboina, Hitoe lama, Mahija, and Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 1879, 20U, 

 August and November, 1913, on forested limestone hills, altitude 150 to 

 225 meters, locally known as tatahel ayer and tatahel ayoo. 



A robust species, 6 to 8 m high, with large compound leaves and ample 

 leaflets, the larger leaflets up to 30 cm in length. It closely resembles the 

 Philippine Leea negrosensis Elm., but further identification of the specimens 

 is not possible except by comparison with authentically named specimens, 

 as they are in fruit only. 



TILIACEAE 



GREW I A Linnaeus 



GREW1A ACUMINATA Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 4 (1805) 91, t. 48, f. 2. 



Grewia pedicellata Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 43, nomen nudum, Fl. 

 Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 585. 



Grewia umbellata Roxb. 1. cc. 42, 591. 

 Amboina, Eri, Rel. Robins. 1807, September 22, 1913, in thickets near 

 the strand. 



This is a topotype of Grewia pedicellata Roxb., and agrees with the 

 short original description of that species. It also agrees with the original 

 description and figure of the older Grewia acuminata Juss., to which 

 Hochreutiner has reduced Grewia umbellata Roxb. It is to be noted, 

 however, that King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng 60 2 (1891) 109, retains Grewia 

 umbellata Roxb. as a distinct species, limiting it to the Malay Peninsula 

 (it was originally described from Sumatran material), and does not con- 

 sider it to be identical with the Amboinese Grewia pedicellata Roxb. Abund- 

 ant material available here from various parts of the Malay Archipelago 

 and the Philippines leads me to suspect that Grewia acuminata, G. pedi- 

 cellata Roxb., and G. umbellata Roxb. are all forms of the same species. 



GREWIA CERAMENSIS Boerl. ex Hochr. PI. Bogor. Exsicc. (1904) 30. 



Amboina, Wae, Rel. Robins. 1805, in light forests, altitude about 20 

 meters; locally known as sokolat titan, that is, wild chocolate. 



Previously known only from Ceram, and from specimens cultivated in 

 the botanic garden at Buitenzorg, Java. 



TR1CHOSPERMUM Blume 



TRICHOSPERMUM QUADRIVALVE sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, ramulis petiolisque dense ferrugineo stellato- 

 pubescentibus ; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 24 

 cm longis, supra parce, subtus densissime pallide stellato-pubes- 

 centibus, acuminatis, basi profunde cordatis, aequilateralibus vel 



