229 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [ Vor. I, Arr. 12 
from the axils of fallen leaves or from the axils of branch- 
lets, glabrous; main pedicels slender, 1 cm. long, bearing 
solitary flowers, or giving rise to an umbel of 2 to 3 flow- 
ers; secondary pedicels as long as the main ones, slender 
and divaricately spreading, subtended at the base by minute 
bracts, frequently half nodding near the apex; flowers scat- 
tering, somewhat succulent, whitish with a little pink, de- 
ciduous; calyx glabrous, cup shaped, 4 mm. deep, 4 mm. 
wide across the top, subtended at the base by 2 or 3 very 
minute bracts, truncate or at least the lower one half only with 
an evident tooth, saccate, margin on the inside finely ciliate; 
banner 18 mm. long, about 10 mm. wide, oblong, abruptly 
contracted at the base into a short claw, apex round, oft- 
en emarginate; wings 15 mm. long, spurred at the base 
and the lower one third contracted into a very slender claw, 
4 mm. wide near the base, gradually tapering toward the 
obtuse apex; keels equalling the wings, the lower one third 
extended into a slender straight claw; the lamina oblong, 
with a rounded apex, 4 mm. wide above the middle; mono- 
delphous stamens glabrous, the free filaments inflexed and 
unequal in length; anthers elliptic, 1 mm. long; ovary slender, 
stipitate, pubescent; style thick, also pubescent, strongly recurved 
at the apex; stigma capitate, sparsely hairy; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 7448, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. It is found here and there 
climbing tall trees in the woods at 800 meters on Mount 
Banahao. The flowers are much visited by Hymenopterous 
insects. More recently it was found in Mindanao. 
Bauhinia whitfordii n. sp.—A liana like shrub, climb- 
ing by loops; stems flattened, longitudinally grooved on each 
side, the size of a man's wrist; wood soft, reddish, watery; 
old bark checked, that on the branches smooth and yellow- 
ish brown. Young twigs and petioles soft densely reddish 
brown pubescent; petiole 6 to 10 em. long, ascending, straight; 
average leaf 15 cm. long and 13 cm. wide, widest above 
the middle, subcoriaceous, shining above, finely reticulate, 
similarly pubescent beneath especially along the radiat- 
ing 9 to 11 nerves and along the rather coarse reticula- 
tions, the central nerve protruded into a 3 mm. long 
