NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 173 
Not previously reported from the Philippines, and the second species definitely 
known to occur in the Archipelago; India to Burma, the Malay Peninsula and 
Archipelago. 
LILIACEA. 
SMILAX Linn. 
Smilax verruculosa sp. nov. § Husmilax. 
Species 8S. bracteatae Pres! valde affinis, differt ramis ramulisque dense 
verruculosis et spinis plus minus numerosis armatis. 
Scandent, the branches and branchlets yellowish or brownish, rather 
‘slender, terete, or the latter slightly sulcate, densely verruculose and with 
numerous, straight or slightly curved, sharp spines 1 to 3 mm long. 
Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, shining, 6 to 10 cm 
long, 4 to 7 em wide, the base rounded or acute, the apex shortly and 
abruptly apiculate-acuminate, the acumen thickened; nerves 5, the outer 
pair faint, submarginal, the inner three stout, prominent, the inner pair 
leaving the middle one just above the base, the reticulations lax, 
prominent; petioles about 1 cm long, the lower half inflated, somewhat 
clasping the stem, some tendril-bearing at about the middle, others simply 
auriculate. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, the rachis emerging from 
between two, ovate, coriaceous, 4 to 5 mm long bracts, each inflorescence 
consisting of from 1 to 4 racemosely disposed, peduncled umbels, the 
peduncles to the umbels subtended by small bracts, solitary. Flowers 
10 to 20 in each umbel, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the perianth-segments reflexed. 
Ovary-cells 1-ovuled. Fruit ovoid, about 3.5 long, 1-seeded. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Topping 13 (type), Elmer 5820, 8572, 
Williams 1046, Bur. Sci. 2810, 3378 Mearns, For. Bur. 15617 Curran. 
Most of the above specimens have been distributed as Smilaw bracteata Presl, 
from which the present species is at once distinguished by its densely verruculose 
and more or less spiny branches and branchlets. The terminal undeveloped bud is 
sometimes present on the racemes, but more often absent, or developed into an 
umbel. 
Smilax williamsii sp. nov. § Husmilaa. 
Frutex alte scandens, ramis ramulisque teretibus vel leviter striatis, 
_ verruculosis, vix spinosis ; foliis amplis, late elliptico-ovatis, chartaceis vel 
subcoriaceis, basi acutis vel subcordato-rotundatis, apice abrupte apiculatis, 
nervis 5 vel 7; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, umbellis 1 vel 2, 
racemoso-dispositis. 
A scandent shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, or slightly 
striate, pale-brown, densely verruculose, not spiny. Leaves alternate, 
ample, broadly elliptic-ovate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 9 to 15 cm 
long, 5 to 11 em wide, shining, base acute or subcordate-rounded, the 
apex shortly and abruptly apiculate; primary nerves 5, basal, prominent, 
with an additional pair of fainter submarginal nerves, the reticulations 
distinct; petiole 1.5 to 2 em long, the lower half inflated, clasping the 
stem, auriculate or tendril-bearing at about the middle, curved. Racemes 
re 
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