NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 2G7 



FLEMINGIA Roxb. 



Flemingia lineafa (Linn.) Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 56; Fl. Ind. 3:341; 

 Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (187G) 228; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 07. 



Hedysarum lineatum Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1054. 



Flemingia blancoana Llanos Fragm. (1851) 80; Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4 I :62. 



Luzon, Province of Bnlacan, near Malolos, Mrs. Templeton, February, 1909. 



A species previously known from tbe Philippines only by F.-Villar's record, 

 and to which he reduced, and apparently correctly so, Flemingia blancoana Llanos. 



India to Siam, the Malay Archipelago and northern Australia. 



DESMODIUM Desv. 



Desmodium retroflexum (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 33G; Baker in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1870) 170; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 

 (1887) 176. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, Cabanatuan, Bur. Sci. 5278 McGregor, Sep- 

 tember, 1908. 



Himalayan region to Tenasserim and southern China ; new to the Philippines. 



ERYTHROPHLOEUM Af/.el. 



Erythrophloeum densiflorum (Elm.) comb. nov. 

 Cynometra densiflora Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 222. 



Arbor glabra, inflorescentiis exceptis, usque ad 25 m alta; foliis alternis 

 abrupte bipinnatis, pinnis 1- vel 2-jugatis; foliolis oppositis, abrupte 

 pinnatis, 3- ad 5-jugatis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, in sicco brunneis vel 

 pallidis, usque ad 15 cm longis, valde acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel 

 acutis, leviter inaequalibus ; floribus parvis, spicatis, spicis pubescentibus, 

 in paniculis terminalibus vel subtenninalibus dispositis ; petalis 5, im- 

 brieatis, circiter 4 mm longis; ovarium stipitatum, 4-ovulatum; legumi- 

 nibus ligneis, oblongis vel anguste oblongo-obovatis, obtusis, eompressis, 

 basi angustatis, longitudinaliter laxe reticulato-striatis, rectis vel leviter 

 falcatis, dehiscentibus, usque ad 18 cm longis, 4.5 cm latis; seminibus 1 

 ad 4, eompressis, orbiculnribus, circiter 3 cm diametro. 



The type of this species was collected by Mr. Elmer No. 0013, near Lucban, 

 Province of Tayabas, Luzon, in flower, and described by him as Cynometra densi- 

 flora. It is represented by the following additional material; LUZON, Province of 

 Tayabas, Bulin, For. Bur. 10272 Curran, with nearly mature fruit; Guinayangan, 

 For. Bur. 12507 Rosenbluth ; Dugatan, For. Bur. 10215 Curran; Apad, For. Bur. 

 11513 Whitford. A sterile specimen from Mindanao, For. Bur. 9163 Whitford & 

 Hutchinson, may be referable here. Locally known to the Tagalogs as Camatog 

 or Calamantao. 



A most interesting addition to our knowledge of the Philippine flora, the genus, 

 up to the present time consisting of about six species, mostly in Africa and 

 Madagascar, one in Australia and one in China. 



KINGIODENDRON Harms. 



Kingiodendron alternifolium ' (Elmer) Merrill & Rolfe. comb. nov. 

 Cynometra alternifolia Elmer Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 22.3. 

 Hardwichia alternifolia Elmer 1. c. (1908) 362. 



Arbor magna, glabra ; foliis imparipinnatis, alternis, rariter oppositis, 



