OcroszR 3, 1910] THE Genus SOLANUM From Mount Apo 733 
vening reticulations coarse and quite evident beneath; petiole 
| to 2 em. long, short fulvous pubescent in the young state. 
Flowers odorless, pendulous in small axillary fascicles or upon 
short tubercles; pedicels slender, subglabrous, nearly 8 em. 
long; calyx green, also subglabrous, broadly cup-shaped, 3 mm. 
high, 5 mm. wide across the top, truncate, with 4 apiculate 
points attached on the outside below the thin rim; corolla 
fleshy, creamy white, 7.5 mm. long, 4-segmented, the basal 
two thirds united into a broad tube; segments broadly oblong, 
obtuse, curvingly reflexed, the inflexed margins and apical 
tooth finely puberulent; anthers 4, inserted upon the corolla, 
their filaments 1.5 mm. long and flattened, 3mm. long, very 
thick and fleshy, opening by oblique slits at the apex; style 
2mm. long, columnar, glabrous, bearing a small stigma; 
fruit upon 8 to 5 cm. long green stalks, smooth, green when 
collected, 1.25 em. thick, subglobose or short ellipsoid, subtended 
by the small persistent calyx, with numerous flattened seeds 
averaging 2.5 mm. across. 
Type specimens 10489 in flower and 11693 in fruit, 
A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Min- 
danao, May and September respectively, 1909. 
Both specimen were collected in a fertile densely forested 
humid flat at 4000 feet. The Bagobos know it as ''Manu- 
caling’’. 
Not S. blumei Nees which is a shrub, has different leaf 
.and flower characters and much smaller fruits. 
Solanum lianoides Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent upon lofty trees; stems loosely hanging about 
the tree trunks, terete, 7.5 cm. thick, heavy; wood porous, very 
soft, the outer portion reddish, the middle region yellow, the 
greater central bulk whitish, odorless but with a slight bitter 
taste, pith minute; bark brown, smoothish; branchlets sub- 
: pendulous, rebranched, greenish and prickly, rather short and 
forming masses, covered with fulvous hairs; spines short but 
sharp, retrorse, more numerous along the lower side. Leaves 
alternate, widely scattering along the branchlets, quite variable, 
flat, somewhat membranous, yellowish green, paler beneath, 
nearly of the same color when dry, the larger blades 1 dm. 
