352 MERRILL. 



This species is common along the trail through the mossy forest on 

 Mount Tonglon, above an altitude of 1,700 m; in Mindanao it grows along 

 small streams in very damp shaded ravines at an altitude of about 800 m.^ 



It is allied to Solanuni blumei Nees, and some of the specimens cited above 

 have been determined as that species, and the duplicates so distributed. 

 Among other characters it differs in its habit, being an erect, dichotomously 

 branched herb, not a suffrutescent or w^oody plant, with longer petioles 

 than in Nees' species. It is not certain that the plant described as Solanum 

 blumei by Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74^ (1905), Extra Number 330, 

 is the same as S. blumei Nees, as Nees describes the calyx as entire and 

 truncate, while Prain describes it as subtruncate, with 5 subulate and 5 

 intervening minute teeth. 



BIGNONIACEAE. 



RADERMACHERA Hassk. 

 RADERMACHERA WHITFORDII sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra, novellis resinosis; foliis pinnatis, usque 

 ad 35 cm longis, foliolis 5 vel 7, subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 

 acuminatis, basi acutis, 11 ad 15 cm longis; paniculis quam folia 

 longioribus, diffusis, floribus 2.5 cm longis. 



A small tree, glabrous throughout, the young parts more or 

 less resinous. Ultimate branches somewhat compressed, with 

 few, large, scattered lenticels. Leaves simply pinnate, 25 to 35 

 cm long, the basal part of the petiole more or less lenticellate. 

 Leaflets 5 to 7, oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, subequally narrowed 

 at both ends, the base acute, apex acuminate, 11 to 15 cm long, 

 3.5 to 6 cm wide ; lateral nerves spreading, about 12 on each side, 

 the reticulations lax; petiolules of the lower leaflets 1.5 to 2 cm 

 long, of the upper ones half as long or shorter. Panicles longer 

 than the leaves, up to 40 cm in length, rather lax, open, the 

 branches distant, spreading, the lower ones up to 15 cm long. 

 Flowers rather few, 2.5 cm long, the corolla slightly pubescent 

 externally in the upper part. Calyx not ribbed. Immature 

 follicles 25 cm long, 4 mm wide, somewhat compressed. 



Mindanao, District of Cotabato, Lebak, For. Bur. 11817 Whitford, March 

 7, 1912, in dry river bottoms at low altitudes. 



Well characterized by its simply pinnate leaves; among the Philippine 

 species most closely allied to Radermachera elliptica Merr., but with very 

 different leaves and inflorescence, and smaller flowers. 



CUCURBITACEAE. 



ALSOMITRA Roem. 



ALSOMITRA SARCOPHYLLA (Wall.) Roem. Syn. 2 (1846) 118; Cogn. 

 in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 929. 

 Zanonia sarcophylla Wall. Cat. (1831) no. 3724, nomen, PI. As. Rar. 

 2 (1831) 28, t. 133. 

 Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Copeland 255, January, 1904. 



