OCTOBER 14, 1907] FREYCINETIA FROM LUCBAN 216 
Type specimen 7902, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It is extremely common 
from 800 to 2000 meters on Mount Banahao, forming dense 
jungles with other shrubs and small trees. It is nearest 
related to F. scabripes Warb. but with larger leaves which 
are less toothed and more slenderly tapering; with thicker 
peduncles and apex of fruit not subclavate nor sulcately 
angular. 
7. F. palawanensis Merr. (in Mss.)—Scandent upon 
trees, 7 m. high. Stems beset with short scattered spi- 
nes, 2.5 em. thick, rather soft in texture but quite tough, 
numerously branched and forming tangled bushes; branchlets 
subdeflexed, light gray or yellowish, heavy. Leaves succu- 
lent, equally green on both sides, heavy and pendulous, 3 
dm. long, 8 mm. wide, margins involute, slightly attenuate 
toward the base, apex slenderly tapering into a fine point, 
entire, linear; stipules lacerate, 15 mm. long or longer, one 
half that in width, quite thin, clasping and rather persist- 
ent to the stem. Staminate spadices 3, cylindric, 3 to 5 
mm. thick, 2 to 3 em. long, upon 1 to 2 em. long peduncles, 
cream color, with a faint burned leather odor; subtending 
bracts of the same color, very thick, with broad bases and 
acute to acuminate apices; immature pistillate spadices also 
9, upon triangular 5 mm. thick and 1 to 2 cm. long sec- 
ondary peduneles, cylindric or columnar, 2 to 3 cm. long, 
6 to 10 mm. thick; fruits 3 to’ 5 mm. long, about 2 mm. 
thick, the upper one third free; circular truncate apex bear- 
ing 3 to 5 or even as many as 7 stigmas. 
Staminate specimen represented by 9009 and pistillate 
specimen by 8226, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It was only here and there 
noticed in damp woods at 700 meters on Mount Banahao, 
along water courses especially in the vicinity of cataracts. 
In the field it is easily recognized by its heavy succulent 
foliage and by the profuse subpersistent lacerated stipules. 
8. F. merrillii n. sp.—A tall climber. Stems wiry, 12 
mm. thick, smooth, yellowish brown; branches few but rather 
long and widely spreading, usually deflexed; rings 2 to 5 
em. apart. Leaves scattering along the branches but more 
