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Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3U7UU (type), Sh77B 

 Ramos & Pascasio, June 20, 1919, along streams in forests at 

 low altitudes. 



This characteristic species is as closely allied to Medinilla fur- 

 furacea Merr. as to any other described form, but differs radically 

 in its sessile, entirely differently shaped leaves, and different 

 inflorescences. 



ARALIACEAE 



ANOMPANAX Harms 



ANOMPANAX PHILIPPIN ENSIS Harms in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 19 

 (1904) 15. 



Pentapanax sp. Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. Manila (1892) 89. 



The type of this species is Warburg 1^^70, from Davao, Min- 

 danao, and it is by no means certain that the species is really 

 different from the type of the genus, Anompanax celebicus Harms. 

 Regarding the latter, I examined Koorders's Celebes material in 

 the Buitenzorg herbarium in January, 1914, noting that the Cel- 

 ebes material looks exactly like the Philippine specimens and 

 that the two species were either identical or very closely allied. 

 Anompanax philippinensis is now known from a number of local- 

 ities in the central and southern Philippines, as follows : Samar, 

 Bur. Sci. 17^51/. Ramos. Negros, For. Bur. 17355 Curran, 7269, 

 12329 Everett, Merrill 703 Jf. Panay, Vidal 2930 in Herb. Kew., 

 Yoder, Bur. Sci. 30798 Ramos & Edano, 32354^ McGregor. Min- 

 danao, Merrill 8293, Clemens 1058, For. Bur. Jf686 Mearns & 

 Hutchinson. Basilan, For. Bur. 18936 Miranda. A species 

 widely scattered on damp forested slopes at medium altitudes. 



ANOMPANAX CUM INGI AN US (Presl) comb. nov. 



Paratropia cumingiana Presl Epim. (1851) 250; Walp. Ann. 2 (1852) 



725. 

 Panax cumingiana Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 310. 

 Polyscias cumingiana F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 102. 

 Nothopanax cumingii Seem, in Journ. Bot. 4 (1866) 295. 



Mindoro, Cuming 1553. 



Seemann, 1. c, records this species also from Borneo, but I 

 have seen no material representing it other than Cuming's col- 

 lection, the type of the species. My specimen is incomplete, but 

 the ovary is always 2-celled and, although the calyx is truncate, 

 not at all toothed or lobed, I feel confident that Anompanax is 

 its correct generic position. It certainly cannot properly be 

 placed in any of the other genera to which it has been assigned 

 by various botanists. 



