680 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 39 
CAPPARIDACEZE 
Capparis copelandii Elm. n. sp. 
A scandent shrub; stem scatteringly branched; branches 
rather long, terete, tough, green, brown puberulent, the free 
ends slender and drooping, hooked; spines stout but rather 
short, slightly recurved, the thickened basal portion pubes- 
cent, usually along the lower side or taking the place of 
the leaf stipules. Leaves alternatingly scattered, coriaceous, 
divaricately spreading, drying light green, slightly recurved, 
smooth and deep green on the upper surface, a trifle paler 
and soft pubescent beneath, oblong, the larger blades 15 cm, 
long, 5.5 cm. wide across the middle, apex gradually acuminate, 
rounded at the base, slightly emarginate at the insertion of 
the petiole, the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state; 
midvein smooth and sunken on the upper side, beneath 
dirty brown pubescent, with 7 to 9 arcuate lateral pairs, 
reticulations not evident; petiole stout, 5 to 8 mm. long, 
densely brown tomentose. Flowers not seen; fruits nearly 
5 cm. in diameter, globose, hard, shining green, several- 
seeded, pendulous; peduncle 5 to 8 cm. long, only sparingly 
branched, terete, glabrous; pedicels also glabrous and terete, 
usually somewhat thickened, 3 to 5 em. long, green as are 
also the stalks. 
Type specimen 10943, "u DR Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
A woody tree climber on wooded banks along the Bara- 
catan creek at 1500 feet. Named after Dr. Copeland who 
first collected it in March, i904. The natives or Bagobos 
call it *Sulo-sulo’’, ; 
THYMELEACE AG 
Wikstroemia linearifolia Elm. n. sp. 
_ Shrub; stem 3 to 4 m. high, 8 em. thick, branched 
from the middle or below. use the main branches ascending, 
finally very. numerously rebranched ; twigs lax and relatively. 
= short; wood whitish, very tough, slightly bitter, odorless; 
bark smooth, tough and easily sae gray and brown 
