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proiiilnont beneath, anastomosing, tlie reticulations lax; petioles 1.5 to 3.5 

 cm. long, densely pubescent, becoming glabrous. Racemes erect, the rhachis 

 pubescent. Flowers 10 to 12 mm. long, numerous, white or slightly pink, 

 faintly fragrant, the pedicels about 2 mm. long, densely pubescent, the 

 bracteoles very small. Calyx 2 to 3 mm. long, pubescent, the teeth 4, 

 acute, less than 1 mm. long. Corolla densely pubescent outside, the 

 petals valvatej 10 to 12 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, much recurved above 

 in anthesis. Stamens 4, about 10 mm. long. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, 

 many-ovuled. Fruit immature, 5 to mm. long, pubescent. 



Specimens examined, all from iloimt ilariveles. Province of Bataan, 

 Luzon: No. 828 (Forestry Bureau), collected by T. E. Borden, June,, 

 1904, flower (type) ; No. 1509 (Forestry Bureau), Ahern's collector, July, 

 1904, flower; No. 3877 (Merrill), August, 1904, flower. 



A species apparently most closely related to Polyosma ilicifoUa Blume, 

 from Java and Sumatra, diff'ering especially in its leaf characters, shorter 

 pedicels, etc., reaching a height of about 10 m., growing in dense Hill 

 forests at an elevation of from 600 to 800 m. above the sea. No species 

 of this genus lias previously been reported from the Philippines. 



LEGUMINOSE.E. 



Bauhinia kappleri Sagot. 



This species is discussed at length by Dr. J. Perkins,' having been collected 

 at Arayat, Province of Pampanga, Luzon, by Dr. 0. Warburg in the 

 year 1888, No. 13743. As the home of the species is not definitely kno^vn, 

 and Dr. Warburg's notes did not show whether the species was cultivated 

 or native at Arayat. Dr. Perkins off"ered the suggestion that it might be a 

 native of the Philippines. Recently I had an opportunity to collect 

 botanical material at Arayat, and discovered the species in question in 

 a small "barrio" at the foot of Blount Arayat, about one and one-half 

 miles distant from the town, and can definitely state that the plant is 

 not a native of the Philippines, but that it has been introduced from some 

 ether country, probably tropical America, and is only cultivated in the 

 Philippines for ornamental purposes, although it is apparently now some- 

 what spontaneous. The Arayat plant, No. 3934 (Merrill), was in flower, 

 also with innnature fruit, in October, 1904, and was observed only in the 

 vicinity of houses Careful inquiry of the natives brought out the 

 information that the species was to be found only in the town, and that 

 it did not grow on the neighboring mountain, or in the thickets or forests. 

 The residents of the little villiage, where the plant was found, speak the 

 Pampangan dialect, and not one was found who had even a rudimentary 

 knowledge of the Spanish language, yet they have no name for this very 

 striking species other than one of Spanish origin, "Rosas de Francia.'' In 

 addition to the Arayat locality I also have this species from Manila, 

 a single unnumbered specimen in fruit, collected in November, 1903. 



■ Frag. Fl. Philip.. 13. 1904. 



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