NEW OB NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 265 



LEGUMINO&&2. 



ALBIZZIA Durazz. 

 Albizzia scandens sp. nov. 



Frutex scandena, subglabra, usque ad 10 m alta; Eoliia bipinnatis, 

 circiter 20 cm longie 4- vol 5-jugatis; foliolis oblongua vel elliptico- 

 oblongig, 1 ad 2 em longis, acutie vel apiculatis, leviter inequilateralibufl : 

 paniculis circiter 80 cm longis, parce pubeseentibus ; floribua Bessilibus, 

 capitnlatis, extus parce pubeseentibus ; staminibus circiter 20, filament is 

 liberie. 



A seandent shrub aboul 10 m high, Bubglabrous. Branches dark- 

 colored when dry, terete, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, about 20 cm 

 long, evenly 1- or 5-jugate, the common rachis slightly pubescent, 12 to 

 15 cm long, with a single large gland on the upper surface near the base, 

 the stipules, if any, caducous, the base of the petiole subtended by a stout, 

 somewhat recurved, thickened puvinus about 4 nun long; leaflets S to 12 

 pairs, crowded, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 1 to 2 cm long, 5 to 7 mm 

 wide, chartaceous, somewhat inequilateral, the base broad, acute, the apex 

 acute or apiculate, the lower surface paler than the upper, slightly pubes- 

 cent. Panicles axillary and terminal, 20 cm long or less, slightly pubes- 

 cent. Flowers white, sessile, in small capitate heads at the ends of the 

 ultimate branchlets. Calyx about 1.5 mm long, slightly cinereous-pubes- 

 cent outside, obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla slightly cinereous-pubescent 

 outside, 4.5 mm long, the tube very slender below, widened above, the 

 lobes oblong-ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide. Stamens 20 

 or more; filaments about 12 mm long, free; anthers 0.2 mm long. 



Palawan, [wahig, liur. Sri. 829 Foxworthy, May, L906. 



A species growing near the sea, climbing over Xylocarpus, allied to Albizzia 

 myriophylla Rozb., of the Malay Peninsula, but with much fewer jugate leaves, 

 less numerous and differently shaped leaflets, and free filaments. 



BAUHINIA Linn. 



Bauhinia monandra Km/, in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. 42- (1873) 73: forest, 

 Fl. Brit. Hni ma 1 ( 1877 | 395. 



Bauhinia richardiana Wall, in Voigt. Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. (1845) 255, non 

 DC. fide Praia 



Phanera maculata Rich, ex Teysm. & Binn. Cat. Hort. Bog. (lsiid) 268, non 

 Bauhinia maculata Tenore. 



Bauhinia krugii Urban in Her. Deutsch. Bot. Oes. 3 (1885) 83. 



Bauhinia kappleri Sagot in Ann. Sci. Nat. VI 13 (1882) 317; Urban Bymb. 

 Antill. 1 (1899) 83; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1004) 13; Merr. in C.ovt. Lab. 

 Pnl.l. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 17. 



Luzon, Manila. Merrill s. n. November. 15)03: Province of Pampanga, Arayat, 

 Warburg, in Herb. Berol.. Merrill .{US',. October, 1904, Holster 51, May. 1905s 

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