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beneath ; lateral veins very oblique, obscure ; stipular sheath lax, 

 ^ in. long, the mouth fringed when young with a few stout unequal 

 deciduous processes, when old truncate ; Howers in terminal loose 

 pyramidal paniculate cymes, on slender pedicels rather longer than 

 the calyx ; calyx-limb glabrous, campanulate, veiny, with shallow 

 broad-triangular teeth ; capsule small, not protruded beyond the 

 enlarged calyx. 



Hab. Wattekelle Hill, Kallebokka District, Central Province, 

 Sept., 1868. (C. P. 3984 in Hb. Perad.). 



Apparently a small shrub with ascending slender whitish 

 branches. Leaves 2-3 in. long, quite glabrous. Flowers medium- 

 size of the genus, white ; corolla-lobes puberulous within. Seeds 

 not seen. 



This is a distinct species of the small group allied to the very 

 variable H.. Lesscrtiana, all of which are found only in Ceylon. 11. 

 LawsonicB, to which it also bears a superficial resemblance, differs 

 completely in the capsule and stipule. 



(To be Gontinued.) 



SUPPLE MENTAKY LIST OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 

 By B. a. Eolfe, A.L.S. 



In the recently published third or folio edition of Blanco's 

 'Flora de Filipinas ' a "Novissima Appendix" is given, the object 

 of which is to include all that is known of the Flora of the Islands 

 up to the date of publication. In this Appendix the widely scattered 

 references have been carefully brought together, and, so far as 

 plants actually known from the Philippines are concerned, it is a 

 great convenience to have them collected together in this way. In 

 one respect, however (as I have pointed out in my paper in the 

 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' xxi., p. 288), the Appendix is 

 especially disappointing. It is this — that in several orders where 

 very little has been published respecting Philippine plants, the 

 authors identify nearly all their plants with descriptions of species 

 from India or the Malay Archipelago, with the result that large 

 numbers are wrongly identified, and the endemic element is almost 

 entirely ignored. This fact especially shows up the difficulty of 

 satisfactorily working out a Flora without the material having been 

 carefully compared with existing types. The fact is a most un- 

 fortunate one, and can only be remedied gradually as the materials 

 come to hand. 



The following list consists of plants which have been omitted in 

 the above-named Appendix, and under the circumstances it may 

 perhaps be worth while to publish it in the present form : — 



Clematis Leschenaultiana DC. Syst. Veg. i. 151. — Luzon, Dist. of 

 Benguet ; ]'idal. 



Tetracera bornecnsis Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. iv. 70. — Luzon, Bagag, 

 Prov. Bataan ; Vidal. Hitherto known only from Borneo. 



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