X, c. 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 303 



The species is apparently very rare in the Philippines, but although Blanco's 

 specimens were from Pasig, near Manila, I have seen but a single Philippine 

 specimen that I consider referable to the genus and species : Luzon, Province 

 of Pampanga, Arayat, Merrill H62, March, 1903, erroneously placed under 

 Mollugo. 



RANUNCULACEAE 



CLEMATIS Linnaeus 

 CLEMATIS LESCHENAULTIANA DC. var. SUBGLABRIFOLIA var. nov. 



A typo diff ert foliolis glabris vel subglabris, subtus parcissime 

 breviter hirsutis. 



Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polls, Bur. Sci. 19813 McGregor, 

 February, 1913: Subprovince of Lepanto, Mount Malaya, For. Bur. H.U96 

 Darling, January, 1909, 



The typical form of the species, which is well represented in the Bureau 

 of Science herbarium by a large series of specimens from Mountain 

 Province, Luzon, has rather densely ciliate-hirsute leaves. In the variety 

 above proposed the leaves are nearly glabrous; otherwise the form is 

 very similar to typical Clematis leschenaultiana DC. 



MENISPERMACEAE 



HYPSERPA Miers 



ZANTHOXYLUM ? TRIPLINERVE Turcz. in BulL Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36 = 



(1863) 597; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 35; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. 



Filip. (1886) 74; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1905) 161 = HYPSERPA 



CUSPIDATA (WalL) Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. II 7 (1851) 40; 



Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 206. 



The status of Turczaninow's species has been doubtful, as from his 



description it is at once evident that the plant he described, having simple 



leaves, could not be a Zanthoxylum, as indicated by Perkins 1. c. Doctor 



Perkins indicates that such a Province as "North Hows," cited by Turc- 



zaninow, does not exist in Luzon, and suggested that the plant may have 



come from Lord Howe's Island. Through the kindness of the director of the 



Botanical Institute of the University of Kharkoff, I have been able to 



examine Turczaninow's type which is preserved in the herbarium of that 



institution. The original label reads "Runner No. 2, Ilocos Norte, Island 



of Luzon, April, 1839, H. C," with notes on the dissection of the flowers by 



Turczaninow. The plant is identical in all respects with Cuming 1252, 



localized by Cuming himself as from the Province of North Ilocos ( = Ilocos 



Norte), which is Hypserpa cuspidata Miers; the specimen in Turczaninow's 



herbarium, type of Zanthoxylum ? triplinerve Turcz., is unquestionably 



a part of the same collection. 



CAPPARIDACEAE 



CAPPARIS Linnaeus 

 CAPPARIS AFFINIS sp. nov. 



Species C. sepiariae affinis, differt foliis majoribus, usque ad 

 9 cm longis, coriaceis, nervis utrinque magis numerosis, utrinque 

 circiter 8. 



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