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cence being reduced to a short simple raceme, a character very different 

 from most of the other species in the genus. It is apparently not very 

 closely allied to any previously described form. 



LILIACEAE 



SMI LAX Linnaeus 

 SMILAX ERECTA sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, glaber, leviter aculeatus, simplex vel parce 

 ramosus, circiter 1 m altus, , ecirrhiferus ; foliis oblongis, in 

 siccitate brunneis, nitidis, usque ad 20 cm longis, utrinque 

 aequaliter angustatis, apice prominente acuminatis, basi cune- 

 atis, perspicue 3-nerviis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, simpliciter 

 umbellatis, breviter pedunculatis ; fructibus ovoideis vel ellip- 

 soideis, circiter 8 mm longis. 



An erect shrub about 1 m high, glabrous, simple or at most 

 once dichotomously branched above, without tendrils, the stems 

 terete, pale-brownish, 5 to 6 mm in diameter below and armed 

 with widely scattered, stout, short, straight spines 2 mm in 

 length or less, the upper parts of the stem unarmed. Leaves 

 oblong, subcoriaceous, brown and shining when dry, of nearly 

 the same color on both surfaces, 12 to 20 cm long, 4 to 6 cm 

 wide, equally narrowed to the rather prominently acuminate 

 apex and the acute base, the base prominently 3-nerved, the 

 lateral nerves extending to the tip of the leaf, the reticulations 

 lax, fairly prominent; petioles about 2 cm long, the inflated 

 basal part 1 cm long or less, cucullate. Umbels in the upper 

 axils, solitary, simple, their peduncles 1.5 cm longer less, the 

 pedicels 6 to 10, about 8 mm long. Fruits black when dry, 

 ovoid or ellipsoid, wrinkled, shining, about 8 mm long. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Scl 28560 (type) , 28^72 

 Ramos & Edano, May, 1917, on forested slopes. 



This most characteristic species is readily distinguished by its erect, 

 simple or but once branched stems which are aculeate below; by its pro- 

 minently 3-nerved leaves; by the entire lack of tendrils; and by its simple 

 umbels. 



SMILAX LUCIDA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramis leviter armatis, distincte circiter 

 9-angulatis, sulcatis; foliis firme chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, 

 oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 16 cm longis, bre- 

 viter apiculato-acuminatis, basi in foliis minoribus rotundatis, 

 in majoribus distincte cordatis, utrinque nitidis, 5- vel 7-nerviis ; 

 umbellis axillaribus, solitariis, pedunculo 2.5 ad 3 cm longo; 

 fructibus globosis, in siccitate subnigris, nitidis, 8 ad 10 mm 

 diametro. 



