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A scandant shrub, the branches and branchlets pale when 

 dry, distinctly about 9-angled, sulcate, sparingly armed with 

 widely scattered, short, straight, rather stout spines that do 

 not exceed 2 mm in length. Leaves firmly chartaceous to sub- 

 coriaceous, subolivaceous when dry, prominently shining on 

 both surfaces, oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 8 to 16 cm long, 

 3.5 to 10 cm wide, all with a stout apiculate-acuminate apex, 

 the smaller ones rounded at the base, the larger ones prominently 

 cordate, 5- or 7-nerved, the inner pair of nerves much stouter 

 than the outer ones, reaching the apex, the reticulations rather 

 lax, prominent ; petioles 1 to 2 cm long, the lower part somewhat 

 sheathing, the tendrils attaining a length of about 10 cm. Um- 

 bels axillary, solitary, their peduncles 2.5 to 3 cm long, the 

 pedicels in fruit 1.5 to 2 cm long. Fruits globose, numerous, 

 nearly black when dry, somewhat wrinkled, prominently shining, 

 8 to 10 mm in diameter; seeds usually 3. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, vicinity of Dingalan, on the Pacific coast, 

 Btir. Sci. 26611 Ramos & Edano, August 27, 1916, on dry slopes at medium 

 altitudes. 



A species well characterized by its inflorescences being reduced to a 

 simple umbel. In vegetative characters it somewhat resembles SMILAX 

 ELMERI nom. nov. {Smilax reticulata Elm. Leafl, Philip. Bot. 8 (1815) 

 2740, non Desv., nee Heer), but Smilax elmeri has racemosely arranged 

 umbels, and its leaves are acute at the base. 



PIPERACEAE 



ZIPPELIA Blume 



ZIPPELIA BEGONIAEFOLIA Blume in Roem. & Schultes Syst. 7 (1830) 

 1614, 1651. 

 Zippelia lappacea Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. (1838) 76, t. 16. 

 Piper zippelia C. DC. Prodr. 16' (1869) 256. 

 JOLO, Mrs. Clemens 9335, October 15, 1915, in damp forests, altitude 

 about 600 meters. 



This monotypic genus is new to the Philippines. Indo-China, Mekong 

 River, Thorel, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java. 



FAGACEAE 



QUERCUS Linnaeus 

 QUERCUS CAGAYANENSIS sp. nov. § Cyclobalanus. 



Arbor circiter 12 m alta, partibus junioribus densissime 

 f errugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad ovato-lanceo- 

 latis, integris, coriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi acutis, 

 apice caudato-acuminatis, supra costa exceptis glabra, nitidis, 

 subtus pallidioribus, ad costa nervisque pubescentibus, nervis 

 utrinque 7 ad 9, subtus prominentibus, curvato-adscendentibus, 



