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obtusis, margine minute ciliatis, extus sparsissime puberulis, 0.1 cm. 

 longis j corollae tubo late campanulato, calyci aequilongo, extus glabro, 

 intus minute et sparsim puberulo, lobis oblongis obtusis utrinque glabris, 



patentibus, tubo vix longioribus; coronae foliolis in sinubus corollae 

 earnosis, facie oblongis apice uncinato incurvulis; gynoategio in tubo 

 corollae incluso; anthcris oblongis, appendice hyalina scmiorbiculari, 

 obtusissima; pollinii oblique oblongoideis, subsessilibus, retinaculo oblong- 

 oideo, polliniis plus tluplo minore; stigmatis capite obtuso. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River (3201 Merrill) October, 1903; Prov- 

 ince of Rizal, Bosoboso (1898 Ahern's collector) October, 1904. 



Allied to Gymnema Schlechterianum Warb., but well distinguished by its 

 corona. 



TYLOPHORA B. Br. 



Tylophora Elmeri Schltr. sp. nov. 



Volubilis, alte scandens, ramosa, rami's ramulisque filiform i bus elon- 

 gatis, teretibus, subglabris, laxe foliatis, flexuosis; foliis petiolatis ereeto- 

 patcntibus, lanceolatis vel anguste oblongis, acuminatis vel apiculatis, 

 utrinque glabris, textura coriaceis, subtus reticulato-nervosis, 3-6 cm. 

 longis, infra medium 0.8-2.2 cm. latis, petiolo teretiusculo 0.3-1 cm. 

 longo; cymis perlaxis, plurifloris, usque ad 8 cm. longis, pedicellis 

 gracillimis filiformibus, glabris, circ. 0.8 cm. longis; floribus illis T. 

 silvaticae Dene, fere aequimagnis, ut videtur purpureis; calycis segmentis 

 ovatis acutiusculis, glabris, 0.1 cm. longis; corolla subrotata, alte 5- 

 lobata, lobis oblongis extusis, extus glabris, intus minutissime papillosis, 

 0.2 cm. longis; coronae foliolis earnosis, tubo gynostegii usque ad apicem 

 adnatis late ovoideis, obtusis, basi truncato-obtusatis, basin antherarum 

 attingentibus ; antheris quadratis, marginibus cartilagineis bene cons- 

 picuis utrinque truncatis, appendice hyalina scmiorbiculari ; polliniis late 

 oblongoideis obliquis, translatoribus tenuibus duplo brevioribus retinaculo 

 oblongoideo fere aequilongis. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bagnio (5980 Elmer) March, 1904. 



The affinity of this species is with Tylophora tenuis BL, but the leaves are 

 longer and narrower and the Sowers larger. Externally it closely resembles 

 T. luzonica Schltr. 



Tylophora luzonica Schltr. sp. nov. 



Volubilis, scandens, ramosa, ramis ramulisque filiformibus elongatis, 

 flexuosis, glabris vel subglabris, laxe foliatis; foliis petiolatis patentibus 

 vel erecto-patentibus lanceolato-oblongis, apiculatis vel breviter acumin- 

 atis, glabris, textura coriaceis, 2.4-4.5 cm. longis, infra medium 0.9-1.7 

 cm. latis, petiolo 0.3-0.8 cm. longo; cymis elongatis, perlaxe plurifloris 

 usque ad 13 cm. longis, pedicellis gracillimis filifonnibus, sparsim 

 pilosulis, 0.4 cm. longis; floribus illis T. Elmeri Schltr. simillimis 

 aequimagnisquc ; calycis segmentis minute et sparsim pilosulis, margine 

 ciliatis, ovatis, obtusiuseulis, corollae fere duplo brevioribus; corolla sub- 

 rotata alte 5-fida, lobis oblongis obtusis apice minute excisis, utrinque 



