225 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Anr. 12 
frutescence upon slender terminal or subterminal spikes, the 
rigid stalk gradually tapering into a small tip, pubescent; 
flowers not seen, but judging from the persistent 4 mm. long 
tubercles they are sessily clustered; pods upon 1 cm. long 
and 5 mm. thick recurved woody stalks, about 15 cm. long, 
5 em. wide, the ventral suture grooved and 5 mm. thick, 
apex abruptly tapering into a rather sharp point, base ob- 
tuse, the sides thick and rigid, strongly compressed between 
the 3 to 5 beans, densely and permanently clothed. with 
soit 3 mm. long umber colored hairs; bean 2.5 em. in dia- 
meter, nearly 2 em. thick, lenticularly marble like, shining 
brown, place of attachment extending three fourths around 
and marked by a double band of white. 
Type specimen 9015, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. The genus Dioclea contains 
about 18 species, all tropical American except two or three. 
Ours differs primarily from D. javanica Benth. in having 
pods with long persistent hairs, with the upper suture much 
narrower, and with smaller but more numerous beans. 
More recently it was again collected at Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon. 
Dumbaria merrillii n, sp.—Subscandent vine, forming 
tangled masses, short cinereous pubescent and with resin 
colored glands; the younger stems and branches green. 
Leaf petiole 4 cm. long, extended beyond the first leaves; 
petiolule 4 mm. long, articulate; leaflets 3, the terminal 
larger and symmetric, broadly ovate, very variable in size, 
from 3 to 7 em. long, about as wide, apex acute, base 
rounded, canescently white tomentose and glandular beneath, 
subglabrous above; nerves usually 3 from the base. Inflores- 
cence erect, 8 to 13 em. long, simple or sparingly branched, 
slender, often subflexuose, from the axils of the leaves or 
from the axils of the branchlets, velvety pubescent; pedicels 
ascending, 1 cm. long; calyx quite thick, 8 mm. long, 6 
mm. thick, subglabrous, cup shaped, terminating into 4 broad 
teeth, the lateral ones a trifle shorter; banner 3 em. long, 
2.5 em. wide, orbicular or broadly obovate, the 5 mm. long 
claw provided with 2 recurved spurs at the distal end, 
yellow with dark purplish streaks, much recurved; wings 
