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one species is represented. There is some variation in the shape of the 

 leaves, ani in the pubescence, sometimes the leaves being quite glabrous, 

 sometimes villous on the midrib beneath. 



Echites affinis R. & S. Syst. 4 (1819) 393 {E. caryophyllata Roth Nov. 

 Sp. PI. (1821) 133, non Roxb.) would supply the oldest specific name for 

 this species were Hooker f. correct in the reduction of Echites affinis to 

 Jchnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC." Finding, however, that the description 

 given by Roemer & Schultes did not agree at all well with specimens of 

 De Candolle's species, I asked Herr J. Martin, director of the Natural 

 History Museum at Oldenburg, Germany, to examine Roth's specimen, 

 the type both of Echites affinis R. & S., and of E. caryophyllata Roth. 

 This he has kindly done and informs me that Ichnocarpus ovatifolius 

 A. DC. is certainly not the same as E. caryophyllata Roth {E. affinis 

 R. & S.) in Roth's herbarium. The sketch he has kindly supplied me 

 shows Echites affinis to have broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic leaves with 

 but two pairs of lateral nerves, the latter character entirely at variance 

 with Ichnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC. 



Ichnocarpus frutescens R. Br., has been reported from the Philippines 

 by several authors, but I have seen no material from the Archipelago 

 that I would refer to that species. Ichnocarpus navesii Rolfe is typified 

 by plate 97 of the third edition of Blanco's "Flora de Filipinas;" in fact 

 the species was based solely on the plate. The figure is manifestly a 

 very poor representation of 7. ovatifolius, and hence I. navesii Rolfe is 

 reduced. 



Three species enumerated by F.-Villar^* under this genus are not species 

 of Ichnocarpus, but 7. velutinus F.-Vill. is Aganosma velutina A. DC, 7. 

 acuminatus F.-Vill. is Aganosma acuminata G. Don, and 7. macrocarpus 

 F.-Vill. is a synonym of A. acuminata G. Don. 



MICRECHITES Miq. 



MICRECHITES SCHRIECKII (Huerck & Muell.-Arg.) Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 

 23 (1885) 214; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 126. 

 Ecdysanthera schrieckii Huerck & Muell.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 191. 

 Trachelospermum sp. Merrill in Forestry Bureau (Philip.) Bull. 1 



(1903) 49. 

 Trachelospermum philippinense Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 488. 

 Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 9135 (cotype of Trachelo- 

 spermum philippinense Elm.), in flower, May, 1907: Province of Camarines 

 Sur, Pasacao, Ahem 300, January, 1902, in fruit: Province of Albay, 

 Cuming 910 (cotype of Ecdysanthera schrieckii Huerck & Muell.-Arg.). 

 Negros, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. A250 Everett, April, 1906, in fruit. 

 Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Dumanquilas Bay, For. Bur. 12360 Hut- 

 chinson, previously determined as Ichnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC. Locally 

 known in Camarines as bayacto. 



The cotypes of Trachelospermum philippinense Elm., and Micrechites 

 schrieckii Rolfe, both in flower, are identical in all respects, hence the 

 necessity of reducing the former species. 

 Endemic. 



"Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) 670. "Novis. App. (1880) 131. 



