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densely appressed-pubescent with short, shining, tawny hairs, 

 the teeth broad, subacute, 0.5 mm long. Corolla and stamens 

 straw-colored, the petals free quite to the base or merely slightly 

 connate below, about 6 mm long, 2 mm wide, acute or obtuse, 

 pubescent externally. Stamens indefinite, the filaments at least 

 1 cm long, the lower 2 mm united into a tube. Pods unknown. 



Luzon, Ben^et Subprovince, railroad grade west of Baguio, Phil. PL 

 1779 Merrill May, 1914, in ravines along small streams, altitude about 

 1,300 meters. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Pithecolohium ellipticum Hassk., 

 from which its differs in its very differently shaped, smaller, more numer- 

 ously nei-ved leaflets, its petals free or nearly so, and other characters; 

 the duplicates were erroneously distributed as PithecolobiuTti platycarpum 

 Merr., to which species the present form is not closely allied. 



NEPTUNIA Loureiro 



NEPTUNIA OLERACEA Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 654. 



Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Bunauan, E. H. Taylor, September, 

 1913. 



Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



This species was credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar,° but was 

 excluded by me' as at the time I revised the Philippine Leguminosae as 

 F.-Villar's record was based on Cuming 2S52, which was from Malacca, 

 not from the Philippines. Taylor's specimen is the first collection of the 

 species in the Philippines. 



KOOMPASSIA Maingay 



KOOMPASSIA EXCELSA (Becc.) Taubert in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflan- 

 zenfam. 3» (1891) 156; Bericht Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 10 (1892) 641, 

 t. S2, f. IS. 



Abauria excelsa Becc. Malesia 1 (1877) 169; Nelle Foreste di Borneo 

 (1902) 172, /. SJ^. 



Palawan, Alphonso III, For. Bur. 21580 Danao, May 10, 1914, in 

 forests, altitude about 20 meters, flowers fragrant, light-yellow, locally 

 known by the Tagbanuas as manggis. 



Beccari proposed the genus AhauHa for this plant, but Taubert has 

 reduced it to Koompasaia, although the fruits are not definitely known. 

 The Palawan specimen is manifestly identical with the Bornean species, 

 agreeing in all essentials with Beccari's description and figure, and with 

 a Sarawak specimen, Foxworthy S34, collected under the native name 

 tapang, the same native name cited by Beccari. Dr. Foxworthy's spec- 

 imen is sterile, but with it is a detached fruit, picked up from the ground, 

 which may or may not belong to the species; this fruit is the characteristic 

 winged one of Koompassia, strongly resembling that of Koompassia bec- 

 cariana Taubert. A very interesting addition to the few known species 

 confined to the Philippines and Borneo, most of which are not found in 

 the Philippines proper but in Palawan and in the Sulu Archipelago. 



'Novis. App. (1880-) 73. 



•Philip. .Tour.n. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 136. 



