DECEMBER 14, 1908] Taree Score or New PLANTS 493 
VITACEJZE. 
CISSUS Linn. 
Cissus suberosa Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent; stéms flexible, 1 5 cm. long; its wood porous, 
soft, odorless; bark brown, or when old covered with soft 
corky grayish excrescences. Leaves alternate, scattered, easi- 
ly breaking, subcoriaceous, trifoliate; petiole suberect, rugose- 
ly thickened and much twisted or curved at the base, glab- 
rous, strict, sprinkled with whitish lenticels, 3 to.8 cm. long; 
petiolule 3 to 5 mm. long, the terminal one twice as long; blade 
recurved, dark green above, yellowish green beneath, glabrous, 
the terminal one symmetrical and usually larger, the lateral 
| ones have the lower side broader, lanceolate, apex acuminate 
| in.all, the. base. of the terminal leaflet cuneate, that of the 
| lateral ones obtusely rounded, with. minute serratures except 
around the base; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, ascendingly curved, the tips 
anastomosing, the reticulations obscure. Infrutescence dichote- 
mously branched, 8 to 15 cm. long and fully as wide; peduncles 
very short, stout, solitary or several from the same leaf axils or 
clustered along the twigs; branches subtended by minute bracts 
especially toward the base, short rusty brown puberulent, the 
ultimate ones subumbellate; pedicels at least 5 mm. long, strict; 
fruit green, turning light red and when fully ripe becoming very 
dark purple or nearly black, mealy and rathér.sweet, glabrous, 
subglobose or obscurely obovoid,.7 mm. thick; seeds 3, unequal 
in size, 5 mm. long, obovately triquetrious, apex shallowly 
emarginate, base pointed, ventral sides plane, back and occa- 
sionally the lateral edges :rugolose, brown, stony. 
Type specimen 9500, A.-D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
‘This looping climber was only once seen in damp moss- 
covered woods at 4500 feet, on the north side of the lesser peak. - 
In September to October of 1906, Mrs. ‘Clemens appar- 
ently collected this same species in flower at lake Lanao, 
central Mindanao. . The inflorescence of her specimens is entire- 
ly covered with a yellowish gray puberulence. Flowers 2 mm. E 
long, the outer lower portion sparsely bracteolate; corolla 4- 
— ovules also 4. s d TA - 
