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Leaflets ok Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



apex, the upper side tabulate at the base of the lamina, abrupt- 

 ly constricted into an 8 mm long very narrow claw, also 

 glabrous and similarly streaked; keel 3.5 cm long, the 2.5 

 cm long by 1.5 cm wide lamina portion broadly lanceolate, 

 slenderly acute and ascendingly curved toward the apex, the 

 ventrally folded sides terminated at the base by a blunt 

 point and abruptly extended into a 1 cm long claw, quite 

 membranous, glabrous, purple streaked; stamineal tube enclos- 

 ed by the keel, equalling it in length, glabrous; the free 

 filaments one half as long, purple; anthers 1 mm long, twice 

 as wide across the base than at the apex, basifixed; stipe 

 6 mm long, puberulent; ovary compressed, less in length, 

 5-ovuled, its thread-like neck nearly 3 cm long; stigma very 

 small, terminal. 



Type specimen number 13461, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



Rx>ted in wet stony ground and climbing with other vines 

 along a tree trunk partly extending over the dry Catang- 

 an creek bed at about 750 feet elevation. In Manobo "Pa- 

 nidehidon." 



Tbe flower bearing spike3 are much shorter, flowers 

 larger and individual parts differently shaped than in Strongy- 

 lodon mindanaensis Elm. More distantly related to Strongy- 

 lodon pidcher C. B. Rob. 



LILIACEAE 



S mi I ax reticulata Elm. n. sp. 



A sprawling and climbing vine; stem 1 cm thick, green- 

 ish, rigid and wiry, occasionally branched, the free portion 

 hanging, terete, the young twigs glabrous. Leaves pendant 

 or descending, widely scattering, alternate or arising from 

 the point of branching, the everage blades 16 cm long by 

 one half as wide below the middle, ovately oblong or ovately 

 elliptic, the smaller ones elongated, conduplicate at the broad- 

 ly rounded base and at the abruptly rounded callously thick- 

 ened acute apex, entire, glabrous, shining on both sides and 

 drying similarly brown, thinly chartaceous; veins 3, the 



