PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 351 



the lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute or somewhat obtuse, about 4 

 mm long. Stamens 5, equal; anthers 2 mm long. Style 5 mm 

 long. Berry globose, fleshy, at first white, becoming orange or 

 red when mature, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, containing but 2, rarely 

 3 seeds, the seeds obovate, somewhat compressed, about 5 mm 

 loftg, pale, minutely pitted-rugose. 



Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming 873 (type) : Province of Cagayan, 

 Bur. Sci. 7482 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 7^94. MiN- 

 DORO, Alag River, Merrill 6157; South of Lake Naujan, For. Bur. 6895 

 Merritt. Mindanao, Butuan Siibprovince, Merrill 7307, Weber 1207: Dis- 

 trict of Davao, Copeland 329: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Cletnens U28, s. n. 



This species is well characterized by its epiphytic habit, its pale-gray, 

 more or less thickened stems, its leaves in very unequal pairs, its solitary 

 or fascicled, pedicelled, 5-merous flowers with truncate calyces, and its 2- 

 or 3-seeded berries. It has been determined at times as Solanum blumei 

 Nees, and at other times as S. parasiticum Blume. It is, from its habit, 

 a very different plant from Solanum blumei Nees, and is at once dis- 

 tinguished from S. parasiticum Bl. by its geminate, not solitary leaves. 



SOLANUM PHILIPPINENSE sp. nov. 



Herba annua, erecta, glabra, dichotoma, inermis, ramis tere- 

 tibus, in siccitate plus minusve sulcatis; foliis geminis, membra- 

 naceis, acuminatis, basi decurrento-acuminatis, ovatis vel oblong- 

 ovatis, altero subdimidio minore; pedunculis filiformibus, uni- 

 floris, axillaribus, solitariis geminis temisve; calycis truncatis, 

 integerrimis. 



An annual, erect, glabrous, dichotomously branched herb 1 m 

 high or less, the branches terete, more or less sulcate when dry. 

 Leaves membranaceous, entire, in pairs at each node, the smaller 

 of each pair half as large as the other or smaller, of the same 

 shape, acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, the larger ones 7 to 

 12 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, their petioles up to 2 cm in length, 

 the smaller ones of each pair 2 to 5 cm long, short-petioled. 

 Pedicels axillary, slender, solitary, in pairs, or in threes, 1.5 to 3 

 cm long, somewhat thickened upward, 1-flowered. Flowers pale- 

 yellowish. Calyx cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, 3 mm in diame- 

 ter, truncate, not at all toothed. Corolla 6 to 7 mm long, the lobes 

 ovate, 2 to 3 mm long, acute or somewhat obtuse. Stamens 

 equal; anthers broadly ovoid, about 1.2 mm long. Fruit globose, 

 fleshy, red when mature, about 7 mm in diameter. Seeds num- 

 erous, pale, somewhat translucent, orbicular-elliptic, flattened, 

 smooth, about 1.2 mm long. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas), Elmer 

 6561, June, 1904, Williams 1275 (type) July 1, 1904, Bur. Sci. 5^.06 Ramos, 

 December, 1908, Merrill 8003, May, 1911. Mindanao, Sax River Mountains 

 back of San Ramon, Merrill 816j^, November, 1911. 



