NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 173 



Not previously reported from the Philippines, and the second species deanitely 

 known to occur in the Archipelago; India to Burma, the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. 



LILIACE^. 



SMI LAX Linn. 



Smilax verruculosa sp. nov. § Eusmilax. 



Species S. bracteatae Presl valde affinis, dift'ert ramis ramulisque dense 

 verruculosis et spinis plus minus numerosis armatis. 



Scandent, the branches and branchlets yellowish or brownish, rather 

 slender, terete, or the latter slightly sulcate, densely verruculose and with 

 numerous, straight or slightly curved, sharp spines 1 to 3 mm long. 

 Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, shining, 6 to 10 cm 

 long, 4 to 7 cm wide, the base rounded or acute, the apex shortly and 

 abruptly apiculate-acuminate, the acumen thickened ; nerves 5, the outer 

 pair faint, submarginal, the inner three stout, prominent, the inner pair 

 leaving the middle one just above the base, the reticulations lax, 

 prominent ; petioles about 1 cm long, the lower half inflated, somewhat 

 clasping the stem, some tendril-bearing at about the middle, others simply 

 auriculate. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, the rachis emerging from 

 between two, ovate, coriaceous, 4 to 5 mm long bracts, each inflorescence 

 consisting of from 1 to 4 racemosely disposed, peduncled umbels, the 

 peduncles to the umbels subtended by small bracts, solitary. Flowers 

 10 to 20 in each umbej, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the perianth-segments reflexed. 

 Ovary-cells 1-ovuled. * Fruit ovoid, about 3.5 long, 1-seeded. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Topping 13 (type), Elmer 5820, 8512, 

 WUliams 10Jf6, Bur. Sci. 2810, 3378 Mearns, For. Bur. 15611 Currmi. 



Most of the above specimens have been distributed as Smilax braeteata Presl, 

 from which the present species is at once distinguished by its densely verruculose 

 and more or less spiny branches and branchlets. The terminal undeveloped bud is 

 sometimes present on the racemes, but more often absent, or developed into an 

 umbel. 



Smilax wiliiamsii sp. nov. § Eusmilax. 



Frutex alte scandens, ramis ramulisque teretibus vel leviter striatis, 

 verruculosis, vix spinosis ; f oliis amplis, late elliptico-ovatis, chartaceis vel 

 subcoriaceis, basi acutis vel subcordato-rotundatis, apice abrupte apiculatis, 

 nervis 5 vel 7; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, umbellis 1 vel 2, 

 racemoso-dispositis. 



A scandent shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, or slightly 

 striate, pale-brown, densely verruculose, not spiny. Leaves alternate, 

 ample, broadly elliptic-ovate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 9 to 15 cm 

 long, 5 to 11 cm wide, shining, base acute or subcordate-rounded, the 

 apex shortly and abruptly apiculate; primary ner\'es 5, basal, prominent, 

 with an additional pair of fainter submarginal nerves, the reticulations 

 distinct; petiole 1.5 to 2 cm long, the lower half inflated, clasping the 

 stem, auriculate or tendril-bearing at about the middle, curved. Eacemes 



