266 MERRILL. 



Province of Rizal, For, Bur. 32 'fS Muni's collector, August, 1905: Province of 

 Bataan, Lamao, For. Bur. 7350 Curran, June, 1907. Bohol. Bur. Sci. 1230 Mc- 

 Gregor, May, 1906. 



There is no doubt but that Bauhinia monandra Kurz is the oldest valid name 

 for this widely distributed species, and it is accordingly here adopted. Material 

 supplied me by Mr. Craib of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, as representing 

 Kurz's species is unquestionably the same as our Philippine specimens. In order 

 to verify this I wrote to Dr. Prain, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kcw. who has kindly examined all the material in the Kew herbarium, and 

 wlio informs me that Bauhinia knujii, and B. kapplcri are unquestionably iden- 

 tical with B. monandra of Kurz. the reductions being also verified by Mr. \Y. B. 

 llcmsley. and Mr. N. K. Brown. My reduction of Phanera maculata Rich., is 

 based on a specimen so named received from Buitenzorg, taken from a tree in 

 (lie botanic garden so labelled, and said to have been received from Bourbon 

 under that name. I suspected that it might be the same as B. maculata Tenore, 

 but this is not the case, as Tenore's description docs not at all apply to the 

 present species, although Dr. R. Pampanini of Florence, who kindly supplied 

 me with a copy of the original description, informs me that Tenore's type does 

 not appear to be extant. The species is now widely distributed in the tropica 

 of the World, and is probably a native of tropical America; it is certainly an 

 introduced species in the Philippines. 



CYNOMETRA Linn. 



Cynometra luzoniensis sp. now 



Arbor glabra, circiter 15 in alta; foliis unifoliolatis, foliolis eoriaceis 

 vel subcoriaceis, in sicco brunneis, nitidis, oblongis, nsque ad 12 cm longis, 

 reticulars, apicc acute acuminatis, basi late rotundatis vel subcordatis; 

 fructibus axillaribus, racemosis, compressis. brunneis, circiter 2 cm longis, 

 verrucoso-lenticellatis, obtusis. 



A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Brandies light-brown, terete, lenti- 

 cellate. Leaves alternate, unifoliolatc, the petiole stout, rugose, 3 to 1 

 mm long, the single leaflet sessile, oblong, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 

 brown and shining when dry, 5 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, the apex 

 sharply acuminate, the base rather broad, rounded or slightly cordate: 

 primary nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, the 

 secondary ones and reticulations nearly as distinct, the latter netted, 

 rather close, distinct on both surfaces. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence 

 of axillary, solitary racemes, the rachis about 1 cm long, marked by 

 numerous pedicel-scars, the pedicels about 8 mm in length. Fruits 

 (immature) compressed, inequilateral, the dorsal suture nearly straight, 

 the ventral semicircular, about 2 cm long, 11 to 13 mm wide, brown, 

 lenticellate-verrucose, apex and base rounded. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Laguimanoc, Merrill 2128, April, 1903. 



A species closely allied to Cynometra simplicifolia Harms, but with larger 

 much more sharply acuminate leaves which are broad and rounded or subcordate 

 at the base and with quite different, much more prominent venation and retic- 

 ulation. The inflorescence of C. simplicifolia is fasciculate and the fruits are 

 usually somewhat falcate, the dorsal suture being frequently incurved. 



