2600 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
Collected in moist fertile soil of a humid and rather 
densely wooded ravine at 2000 feet altitude. 
Rourea volibilis (Blco.) Merr. but leaves not so broadly 
rounded and with much smaller fruits. Compare with my 
number 11057 from Mount Apo. Neither is it the same 
species as my. number 14309 which I have just describe un- 
der another name. 
Y! Rourea subvolubilis Elm. n. sp. 
A small shrubby tree climber; stem 2 cm thick, terete, 
branched; branches widely reaching, the ultimate rather short; 
twigs somewhat drooping, the green and glabrous portion 
dull reddish brown when dry; wood tough, whitish, with- 
out odor or taste; bark smooth, chiefly brown but with 
some gray blotches. Leaves spreading, mostly descending, 
well scattered along the branchlets, 3 dm long, normally 
with 5 leaflets; rachis including the peduncle 1.5 to 2 dm 
long, likewise glabrous, subterete, minutely caniculate along 
the upper side, reddish brown when dry; petiole proper 
one third as long, similar to the rachis, much thickened 
at the ascendingly curved base which turns nearly black 
while drying; leaflets subopposite, odd pinnate, thinly coria- 
ceous, flat or only the abrupt short bluntly rounded tip 
recurved, sublucid and a trifle darker green on the upper 
surface, dull brown on both sides when dry, the terminal 
leaflet frequently much larger and broadly elliptic, the basal 
or ‘smaller ones broadly ovate and 7 cm long, the middle 
ones obtusely rounded only at the base, entire although 
edges rugose; petiolule 3 to 5 mm long, thick, black in the 
dry state at least; midrib conspicuous beneath, a trifle 
sunken on the upper side especially toward the base; lateral 
nerves about 5 pairs, the basal pair relatively faint, the 
others ascendingly curved and more prominent beneath, 
coarsely reticulated toward their distal ends, reticulations 
much less prominent beneath but equally seen from above. 
Inflorescence usually clustered from the uppermost leaf axils 
or from the axils of specialized stalks, chiefly ascending; 
the individual stalks varying from a few to 10 cm in 
length, whitish when fresh, dark reddish brown when dry, 
