304 ^he Philippine Journal of Science ms 



A scandent, armed shrub, apparently entirely glabrous. 

 Branches pale greenish-yellow when dry, terete, stout, slightly 

 zigzag, glabrous, or the younger ones very slightly pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong, coriaceous, 8 to 9 cm long, 3 to 4 cm 

 wide, pale yellowish-green when dry, brittle, the upper surface 

 very smooth and strongly shining, the lower paler, dull, base 

 rounded, apex retuse; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of 

 the midrib, slender, indistinct, scarcely anastomosing, the retic- 

 ulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 5 to 7 mm long; spines 

 stout, recurved, about 2 mm long. Inflorescence fascicled or 

 umbellate, axillary, apparently few-flowered. Flowers not 

 seen. Peduncles in fruit 3 mm long or less, each bearing from 

 2 to 4, long-pedicelled fruits, the pedicels about 1 cm long, the 

 androgynophore as long as the peduncles. Fruit globose, about 

 8 mm in diameter when dry, the pericarp somewhat wrinkled, 

 glabrous, pale, shining. 



Palawan (Arricife Island, near the southern end of Palawan), Bur. Sci. 

 21583 Escritor, August 14, 1913. 



A species with much the appearance of Capparis sepiaria Linn., but 

 with much larger, quite glabrous, coriaceous, more numerously nerved 

 leaves. 



CAPPARIS PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex suberectus, 2 ad 3 m altus, partibus junioribus plus 

 minusve pubescens, ramis ramulisque inermis vel subinermis; 

 foliis oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 

 rotundatis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12; floribus subterminalibus, 

 solitariis vel b.inis ; f ructibus longissime pedunculatis, ellipsoideis 

 ad globoso-obovoideis, circiter 1.5 cm diametro, extus pube- 

 scentibus. 



A suberect shrub, 2 to 3 m high, the branches somewhat droop- 

 ing or subscandent, unarmed, or with only few, scattered, short 

 spines. Branches terete, glabrous, dark-colored, the branchlets 

 yellowish-olivaceous, terete, slender, rather densely pubescent 

 with short hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, 9 to 11 cm 

 long, 3.5 to 4.5 cm wide, chartaceous, base broadly rounded, 

 narrowed in the upper one-third to the rather sharply acuminate 

 apex, pale olivaceous, rather dull, and glabrous or very slightly 

 pubescent on the upper surface, the lower surface much paler, 

 slightly pubescent on the midrib and nerves; lateral nerves 10 

 to 12 on each side of the midrib, spreading, anastomosing, the 

 reticulations lax; petioles densely pubescent, 2 to 4 mm long. 

 Flowers subterminal, in the uppermost axils, solitary or in pairs, 



