NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 243 



Mussaenda villosa Wall. Cat. (1832) no. (1254; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Iiid. 3 

 (1880) 01; King in Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng. 72 ^ (1903) 184. 



What is apparently this species has been collected at Camp Keithley, Lake 

 Lanao, Mindanao, by Mrs. Clemens, no. 562, and two specimens without number. 

 The material agrees with Wallich's species as interpreted by Sir George King I. c, 

 except that the pubescence is pale rather than rusty. It is the only scandent 

 species at present known from the Philippines; widely distributed in* the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



OLDENLANDIA Linn. 



Oldenlandia pterita (Bl.) Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 193. 



Jledyotis pterita Bl. Bijdr. (1826) 972. 



Gonotheca hlumei DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 429. 



Oldenlandia alata Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 70; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 

 107, non Koenig ex Roxb. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. 8ci. 182Jf Ramos, April, 1909. Negros, 

 Cabancalan, Merrill 6Jf30, March, 1910. Palawan, Puerto Prineesa, Bur. Sci. 

 21S Bermejos, December, 1905. Mindanao, District of Davao, DeVore & Hoover 

 12Ji, April, 1903, Copeland 596, March, 1904: District of Zamboanga, Hallier 

 s. n., February, 1904. 



Previously credited to the Philippines by Hooker f., and by F.-Villar. What 

 is apparently the oldest valid specific name is adopted, for according to Hooker 

 f., the species originally published by Roxburgh, ascribed to Koenig, is a synonym 

 of Oldenlandia paniculata Linn. 



Widely distributed. India to China, and Malaya. 



PRISMATOMERIS Thwaites. 



Prismatomeris tetrandra (Roxb.) K. Sch. in Engl. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanzen- 

 fani. 4^ (1891) 138. 



Coffea tetrandra Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1 (1832) 538. 



Prismatomeris albidiflora Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ. 7 (1855) 268, t. 7; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 159; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 355: King in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 73= (1904) 90; Valeton in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenzorg 8 

 (1901) 5. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 7365 Ramos, For. Bur. IS.'fOd Bernardo, 

 For. Bur. 16592, 17166, 17260 Curran, For. Bur. 14721, U747 Darling, For. Bur. 

 18452 Alvarez, February, March, 1909, in forests at from 30 to 200 m altitude. 



Some of the specimens cited above differ from the species as described in 

 having somewhat larger flowers and larger leaves, while others are almost an 

 exact match for a specimen of Thwaites' Ceylon plants no. 728 in our herbarium. 

 All the Luzon material has 5-merous flowers and is much closer to the Ceylon 

 plant than to several sheets in our herbarium from Perak, Penang, Singapore, and 

 Java. 



No representative of the genus lias previously been reported from the Pliilip- 

 pines; Ceylon, Burma, Khasia Mountains, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 



Psychotria phanerophlebia sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, ramiilis, inflorescentiis, subtus foliis, plus minus dense 

 castaneo- vel snbnibiginoso-pubescentibus ; foliis coriaceis,. late oblongo- 

 oblanceolatis, usque ad 29 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 22, pro- 

 minontibus; C3'mis dense congestis, pedunculatis. 



