650 
LEAFLETS Or PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 36 
C. discolor is apparently related to the species of group 
V. of my Monograph, and must be placed in proximity to 
C. tonkinensis and allied species, though rendered quite distinct 
from any other by several characteristic features which are 
not very frequently met with in other species, especially by 
the female flowers spirally arranged all round the rachis of the 
spikelets and not bifarious; moreover I do not know of any 
other species of Group V (with noncirriferous leaves and 
flagelliferous leaf-seaths) having the leaflets green above and 
so distinctly covered on the under surface with a white chalky 
coating. 
The following is Elmer’s field note on No. 9299: ‘‘Scandent 
climbers in jungles along stream gulches at 650 metres: stems .5- 
inch thick, smooth, green, with rings 3 to 5 inches apart, wiry; 
upper portion of stem clothed with persistent sheaths densely 
_ beset with thin, very slender, brown spines; leaves 3 to 5 feet 
.. long, leaflet bearing for the upper two thirds; leaflets dark and 
shining, green above, glaucous beneath, very thin; flagella al- 
ternating with the leaves, andtwice the length of the foliage." 
