XIV, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 381 



and rather coarsely toothed, at least in the upper part, below 

 often entire or nearly so, nerves prominent, arched, anastomosing, 

 the primary ones above the basal pair 3 or 4 on each side of 

 the midrib. Staminate cymes axillary, sessile, about 1.5 cm in 

 diameter, the flowers numerous, crowded, the subtending brac- 

 teoles oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, pubescent; pedicels 

 pubescent, about 1.5 mm long. Perianth segments of the stami- 

 nate flowers 5, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 2 mm long, somewhat 

 ciliate, some of them distinctly corniculate or keeled-corniculate 

 at the apex. 



Samar, Yabong, Bur. Set. 17^68 Ramos, March 16, 1914, in 

 damp forests near small streams at low altitudes. 



The alliance of this is manifestly with Elatostematoides manil- 

 lense C. B. Rob., from which it is especially distinguished by 

 its prominently pilose midrib, nerves, and reticulations on the 

 lower surface of the leaves. 



BOEHMERIA Jacquin 



BOEHMERIA ZOLLINGERIANA Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. IV 1 (1854) 

 201, DC. Prodr. 16' (1869) 208. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Nagapatan, Bur. Sci. 

 83129 Ramos, August, 1918; Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27Jf78 Ramos, 

 March, 1917: Pangasinan Province, Umingan, Bur. Sci. 18322 

 Otanes, May, 1914, in ravines and on open slopes, ascending to 

 an altitude of 550 meters. 



Weddell's species was based on a Javan specimen. It has 

 been also recorded from Formosa by C. H. Wright,^ who, how- 

 ever, identified the Formosan material from the description alone. 

 The Philippine specimens agree closely with our rather full 

 series of Formosan ones. 



ARISTOLOCHIACEAE 



ARISTOLOCHIA Tournefort 

 ARISTOLOCHIA MEMBRANACEA sp. nov. § Diplolobtis. 



Frutex parvus, ut videtur erectus, ramulis 1 ad 2 mm dia- 

 metro ; f oliis membranaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 8 ad 

 15 cm longis, acuminatis, basi cordatis, lobis rotundatis, utrinque 

 ad costa nervisque leviter pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 8 ad 

 10, tenuibus; inflorescentiis axillaribus, paucifloris; floribus cir- 

 citer 3 cm longis, leviter pubescentibus; capsulis obovoideis, 1 

 cm longis, glabris. 



'Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1899) 488. 



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