VITACEAE 9AT7 
Cissus acida Blanco Fl, Filip. (1837) 69; ed. 2 (1845) 50; ed: 3, 1 (1877) 
94, t. 24, non Linn. =COLUMELLA TRIFOLIA (L.) Merr. (Cissus 
carnosa Lam., Cissus trifolia K. Sch., Cayratia carnosa Gagnep.). 
This species presents considerable variation in the size of 
its leaflets and in the character of its indumentum, varying from 
practically glabrous to distinctly pubescent. It is common and 
widely distributed in the settled areas in the Philippines, but 
is not a sylvan species. Gagnepain is certainly correct in his 
segregation of Cayratia as a genus distinct from Cissus, but the 
oldest generic name for the group is Columella Lour. (1790), 
which will have to be taken up unless it is excluded by some 
future list of generic nomina conservanda. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
August, 1912 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 296). 
TETRASTIGMA Planchon 
Cissus pedata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 71; ed. 2 (1845) 52; ed. 8, 1 (1877) 
96, t. 398, non Lam.=TETRASTIGMA HARMANDI|I Planch. 
This species is common and widely distributed in central Luzon 
at low altitudes, the fruits edible. It has erroneously been 
referred to Tetrastigma lanceolarium Roxb. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, December, 1913, 
here known as ayo (Tagalog) (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
No. 326). 
LEEA Linnaeus 
Aquilicia sambucina Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 178, non Linn.—Leea sambu- 
cina Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 126; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 226, t. 60, non 
Willd. =LEEA MANILLENSIS Walp. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. 19 
(1843) Suppl. 1: 314. 
This species is common and widely distributed in Luzon at 
low and medium altitudes, growing in thickets on open slopes, 
etc. The form Blanco described was reduced by Fernandez- 
Villar to Leea rubra Blume, but Walpers’s species is apparently 
distinct from that described by Blume. ; 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914, there known as caliantang (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
No: 587). 
Ticorea aculeata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 85 (sp. nov.)=Leea aculeata 
Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 127 (comb. nov.) ; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 227, ¢. 
306 (as L. biserrata Miq.) =LEEA ACULEATA Blume. 
Blanco transferred his Ticorea aculeata to Leea as Leea acu- 
leata Blanco without reference to the earlier Leea aculeata Blume. 
The forms described by Blanco and by Blume under the same 
specific name are apparently identical. The species is widely 
