698 : LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Anr. 40 
forests on the trail to Apo. Only observed once during my 
six month's stay in the woods. The Bagobos call it “Lipe”. 
Differentiated from S. coerulea Merr. by the much shorter 
and thinner spikes; by the finer pedicels, longer calyx and 
other floral characters. 
SPATHOLOBUS Hassk. 
Spatholobus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, terete, more or less 
flexible, looping; branches toward the top only, slender, 
the free portions hanging, otherwise forming interlaced masses; 
wood soft, odorless and tasteless, yellowish especially toward 
the center; bark grayish brown, smooth or only sparsely 
lenticelled. Leaves alternating, scattered along the branch- 
lets; petiole 5 to 8 cm long, ascendingly curved from the 
base, in the young state short brown pubescent or only pub- 
erulent, ultimately glabrous, 1 to 3 cm. extended beyond 
the lateral pair of leaves; petiolule thickened, similarly pub- 
escent, falliag with the blade, subtended by mere vestiges 
of bracts; leaflets 3, entire, descending, folded upon the gla- 
brous upper slightly darker green surface, drying brown, sub- 
lucid on both sides but especially on the upper, very min- 
utely puberulent on the upper as well as on the lower side, 
diverse in size, the lateral pair usually smaller, elliptic or 
the smaller ones ovately so, the larger blades 15 cm. long, 
9 cm. wide across the middle, apex short obtuse, base broadly 
obtuse or rounded; midvein prominent beneath, as are also 
the 7 to 9 ascending lateral pairs, more or less puberulent, 
retieulations quite evident. Panicle terminal and from the 
uppermost leaf axils, profuse, yellowish strigose pubescent, 
3 to 5 or even 8 dm. long; main branches slender, widely 
spreading, alternate, usually branched from near the base, 
subtended by a pair of rigid deflexed 5 mm. long bracts; 
the bracts of the secondary branches triangular and acute, 
those subtending the pedicels short and subsetaceous; ped- 
icels 2 mm. long, densely ferruginous pubescent; calyx cam- 
panulate, 4 mm. long, nearly 8 mm. wide across the top, 
 Subglabrous, distinctly stipitate at the base, apex entire or 
