89 



Meyer) December, lu thickets below 100 ui., widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. British India and Malaya. T., Ayo. 



2. T. sp. (?) 



(700-t Elmer) November; (71 Homes) November. Specimens with fruit only. 



2. CISSUS Linn. 



1. C. adnata (Roxb.) Planch. 1. c. 404. 



(512 Whit ford) July; (2519 Merrill) .Tune. In thickets below 100 m. British 

 India to southern China and Malaya. 



2. C. japonica Willd.; Planch. 1. c. 561. 



(G672 Elmer) November; (2170 Meyer) December; (23 Whitford) April; 

 (2535 Merrill) June. In thickets below 100 m. .Ja])an to China, Java, New 

 Caledonia, and Australia. T., Calit-calit. 



3. C. geniculata Blume, Planch. 1. c. 572. 



(6700 Elmer) November; (1786 Borden) August; (2531 Merrill) June. In 

 thickets below 100 m. Cochin China and Malaya. 



4. C. rostrata (Miq.) Korth.; Planch. 1. c. .500. 



(6660 Elmer) November; (1927, 2122 Borden) October, November; (3793 

 Merrill) January; (1056 Whitford) January; (2193 Meyer) December. In 

 thickets below 100 m. Java and New Guinea. 



5. C. repens (Lam.) Planch. 1. c. 504. 



(3151 Merrill) October; (1785, 1795 Borden) August, September; (6708, 6751 

 Elmer) November. In thickets below 100 m.. widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. British India, Malaya, and Australia. 



6. C. sp. (?) 



(2495 Borden, 2510 Meyer) January. In thickets at GOO m., staminate flowers 

 only. T., Latgitic. 



3. LEE A Linn. 



1. L. manillensis Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 314. 



(14 Whitford) April; (2552, 3163 Merrill) June, October; (2187 Meyer) De- 

 cember; (721 Borden) May. Along the river, and in thickets below 200 m., the 

 whole inflorescence bright red, previously identified by the author and distributed 

 as L. rubra Blume. Endemic. Caliantang, Taliantang. 



2. L. sambucina Willd.; King, Mat. Fl. Malay. Benin. 700. 1896. 



(3883 Merrill) August; (6651 Elmer) November. In forests at about I.OOO m. 

 British India and ]\Ialaya. 



3. L. philippinensis Merrill, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree, sometimes 10 m. high, witli glabrous pinnate leaves, 

 lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, long acuminate leaflets, the flowers greenish white, 

 yellowish, or sometimes tinged with pink. Branches light brown, lenticellate, 

 not at all pubescent, terete. Leaves 20 to 50 cm. long, simply pinnate, the leaflets 

 5 to 13; rhachis glabrous, terete, the petiole channeled above; leaflets 8 to 

 20 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. wide, glabrous, dull, subcoriaceous, the base acute, the 

 apex long acuminate, the acumen bhmt, the margins rather coarsely crenate- 

 dentate; nerves 9 to II on each side of the midrili, usually not prominent; 

 petiolules I cm. long, that of the terminal leaflet longer. Cymes up to 10 cm. long 

 on stout peduncles 6 cm. long or less, the branches and especially the branchlets 

 ferruginous pubescent or puberulent, often 20 cm. across, but frequently much 

 smaller. Calyx green, glabrous, or when young puberulent, the buds obovoid, 

 the teeth broad, short, acute. Petals oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous, about 4 mm. 

 long, yellowish or greenish white, sometimes slightly pink. Staminal tube notched, 

 about 5 mm. long. Fruits brown, glabrous, depressed globose, about 1.5 cm. 

 thick, 1 cm. long, wrinkled when dry; seeds three, subglobose, about 6 mm. in 

 diameter, glalirous, reticulate. 



