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shallow, the lobes rounded to subacute; lateral nerves above the 

 basal pair 2 or 3 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, 

 the reticulations lax; petioles 2 to 4 cm' long; tendrils 5 to 21 

 cm long. Inflorescences slender, solitary, from the axils of 

 fallen leaves, 20 to 30 cm long, the flowers racemosely arranged 

 in the upper part, in the lower part usually few and scattered, 

 primary branches up to 2 cm in length. Buds rather thickly 

 club-shaped, about 7 mm long. Fruits brown when dry, sessile 

 or subsessile, truncate, smooth, 3.5 cm long, about 1.5 cm wide, 

 base acute. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 37397 

 Ramos & Edano, November 3, 1919. In forests along streams 

 at low altitudes, locally known as lalapid. 



This species is manifestly most closely allied to Alsomitra 

 timorana (Spanog.) Roem., from which it differs, among other 

 characters, in its entire and very shortly acuminate leaves. 



QYNOSTEMMA Blume 



GYNOSTEMMA LAXUM (Wall.) Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 914. 

 Zanonia laxa Wall. Cat. (1831) no. 3727, nomen, ?1. Rar. As. 2 

 (1831) 29. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, Mahilucot River, Bur. Sci. 

 38643, 38669 Ramos & Edano, July, 1920. Altitude about 1,000 

 meters, in forests along streams. Local name pogsot. 



India to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE 



LONICERA Linnaeus 

 LONICERA MINDANAENSIS sp. nov. § Nintooa, Breviflorae. 



Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque ex- 

 ceptis glaber; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, 

 utrinque glabris, oblongo-ovatis vel oblongis, 3.5 ad 6 cm longis, 

 basi late rotundatis, apice acutis; floribus terminalibus et in 

 axillis superioribus, 2.3 ad 2.5 cm longis, bracteis triangulari- 

 ovatis, acuminatis, bracteolis orbiculari-reniformibus, late ro- 

 tundatis, 1 mm diametro, corolla extus adpresse villosa. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the sparingly pubescent* 

 younger parts and the inflorescences and flowers. Branches 

 terete, smooth, reddish brown, glabrous, the branchlets slightly 

 appressed-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 

 oblong-ovate to oblong, 3.5 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 8 cm wide, 

 olivaceous and shining on both surfaces, glabrous, base broadly 

 rounded, apex acute; lateral nerves slender, about 8 on each 



