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Melicope luzonensis Eiigier, in Engl, und Prantl, Xat. Pflanzenfam. 3*: 

 122. 1897, nomen; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 161. 190.5. 



The following synonomy should be added: Fagara octandra Blanco, Fl. 

 Filip. ed. 1. 67. 1837; cd. 2, 48. 1845; ed. .3, 1 :90; Merrill, Govt. Lab. Publ. 

 27:27. 1905, non Linn. Melicope ternafa Vid. Cat. PI. Prov. Manila 21. 

 1880; Sinopsis, Atlas, t. 2Jf. f. A. 1883; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 34. 1880, non 

 For St. 



A specimen of Cuming's No. 1819 exists in our herbarium, and the species 

 is also represented by the following material : Luzon, Province of Benguet 

 (6282 Elmer), May, 1904; Province of Rizal, Bosoboso (2787 Merrill), 

 July, 1903. Mindoro, Pola (2397 Merrill), May, 1903. Island of Ticao 

 (1069 Clark), May, 1904. Blanco's description applies very closely to the 

 above species, and specimens from the same province from which he received 

 his material bear the same Tagalog name, Matanf/ arao. 



Melicope obtusa, sp. nov. 



An entirely glabrous shrub or small tree with opposite trifoliate leaves, 

 the small leaflets obtuse, retuse, the inflorescence axillary. Branches grayish 

 brown, glabrous. Petioles 1 to 2 cm. long; leaflets subcoriaceous, obovate- 

 elliptical to oblong elliptical. 3 to 6 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, usually 

 three, or by abortion two. raiely only one. gradually narrowed to the acute 

 base, the apex rounded or obtuse, usually more or less retuse; nerves 7 to 

 8 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions lax; petiolules 3 to 4 mm. long, that of the terminal leaflet scarcely 

 exceeding those of the lateral leaflets. Panicles racemose, 1 to 3 cm. long, 

 the branches spreading, less than 1 cm. long, many flowered, the flowers 

 yellowish white, 3.5 mm. long, their pedicels about 2 mm. long, fasciculate. 

 Calj^ glabrous, the lobes short, rounded. Petals 4, membranous, glabrous, 

 oblong ovate, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, acute or obtuse. Stamens 8, all 

 fertile, unequal, four with filaments 3 mm. long, the alternating ones about 

 2 mm. long. Ovary subglobose, glabrous. 



Type specimen: Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon (6370 Elmer). May. 

 1904. 



Paramigyna longipedunculata, sp. nov. 



A scandent shrub, unarmed or with few short axillary spines, with pubes- 

 cent branches and axillary solitary or fascicled flowers about 2 cm. long, 

 the peduncles densely pubescent, 2.5 to 3 cm. long. Branchlets dark green 

 when dry, densely pubescent, the solitaiy spines, when present, stout, pubes- 

 ceHt, about 5 mm. long. Leaves 7 to 10 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wude, 1-foliate, 

 the joint obsolete or nearly so, elliptical-ovate, the apex abruptly acute or 

 broadly short acimiinate. the base rounded, the margins slightly crenate 

 towards the apex, the upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower surface 

 pubescent throughout, the midrib densely so; petioles 8 to 10 mm. long, 

 densely pubescent. Flowers 1 to 3, fasciculate, white. Calyx cupular, 

 densely pubescent, about 7 mm. in diameter, 5-lobed, the lobes erect, broadly 

 ovate, 2,5 mm. long. Petals 5, linear-oblong, obtuse, 2 cm. long, 5 mm. 

 wide, thick, pubescent on the outside. Stamens 10, the filaments pubescent, 

 about 12 mm. long, the anthers 5 mm. long. Ovary 5-celled; stylo about 

 1..") (111. long, densely pubescent. 



