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oblong, obtusely acuminate, base cuneate or rotundatc-cuneate, 

 entire, subcoriaceous, on both surfaces clothed with minute 

 adpressed yellow-brown hairs, 3,5 — 6,5 cm long, 1,5 — 2,5 cm 

 wide, rachis brown-pubescent, petiolules 5 mm long, stout, 

 pubescent; lateral nerves 6 — 8 pairs, spreading, ascending, 

 like' the midrib depressed above and prominent beneath. Flowers 

 in ample terminal and axillary panicles 15 — 20 cm long, their 

 branches 4 — 10 cm long, spreading, slender; branchlets forming 

 few-flowered (3 — 6-fld.) short racemes; rachis pedicels and bracts 

 pubescent; the pedicels 5 — 8 mm long, slender, bracteate at 

 their base and with 2 small lanceolate bracteoles very near the 

 base of calyx. Calyx campanulate, 3 mm long, 5 mm wide, 

 brown -puberulous, shortly, broadly, but distinctly toothed. Corolla 

 white, about 8 mm long, standard-limb orbicular, puberulent 

 externally, 7 mm diam. Vexillary filament united with the 

 others as far as the middle, except at the base. Ovary villous. 



Mindoro Isl., Palauan, in dry thicket (Merrill no. 953; 

 in April in flower). 

 Derris multiflora Benth. 

 Luzon Isl., Prov. Tayabas, Pagbalao (Merrill no. 1969, in flower 

 in April 1903). 

 Dorris polyaiitha Perk. n. sp. Flowers in long, copious, axil- 

 lary, simple or compound racemes reaching 24 cm in length, 

 sometimes produced into short branches, each bearing a cluster 

 of unequal slender pedicels, sometimes the flowers in fascicles; 

 the pedicels 2-bracteolate under the calyx, the bracteoles ovate, 

 minute; pedicels, bracts rachis and peduncles densely clothed 

 with long, spreading, hirsute, rusty hairs. Calyx 2,5 mm deep, 

 widely campanulate, the upper side shorter than the lower, 

 rusty- pubescent, the teeth unequal, the two upper shorter and 

 broader than the lower, triangular. Corolla 7 mm long, glabrous, 

 the standard -limb orbicular. Vexillary filament free. Ovary 

 silky, 2 — 3 seeded. 



Luzon Isl, Prov. Pampanga, Arayat (Merrill no. 1457; 

 in flower in March 1903); Prov. Kizal, Antipolo (Merrill no. 1692; 

 in flower in March 1903). 



Very near Derris scandens Benth. It is, however, easily 

 distinguished by the hirsute -pubescent calyx and rachis. The 

 ovary is 2 — 3 seeded in Dermis polyantha and King gives 

 6 — 8 seeds for D. scandens. 



.I.Perkins, Eragmenta florae Pliilippinae. • 



