422 MKUUILL. 



CYPEKACE^l^. 



M ARAN I A Aul)l. 



Mapania macrocephala (Gaudicli.) K. Scli. I'x Warh. in JJot. .lalirli. 13 

 (l.SiU) 205. HypoJytrum macroccplmhtm Gaudich. In Freyc. Voy. But. (1820) 

 414. Lepironia macrocephala j\li(j. 111. (1871) 64. pi. 27. 



JiAi.UT Island (540!) Merrill) October 8, 1900. In wet forests at 700 ni. alt. 



^Moluccas and the Bismarck Archii>ela<io. 



Mapania kurzii C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. I'.rit. Ind. 6 (1004) 081. 



Lrzox, Province of Tayabas. Atinioiian (4001 Mrnill) March. 190.'). In 

 forested ravines. 



Malayan Peninsula. 



This species was so identiticd by the hitc <'. B. Vlarkf, but omitted from 

 his list of Philippine Cyperaceae.^ Mr. CUnhv observes that the specimen 

 might be the closely allied M. multiftpicata, but it agrees well with No. 11476 

 Ridley from Singapore, determined by Clarice as M. kurzii, and also with the 

 description of that species. 



SCIRPODENDRON Kurz. 



Scirpodendron costatum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 38= (1869) 85; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6 (1894) 684. 



Palawan, San Antonio Bay (5257 Merrill) October 17, 1906. Forming dense 

 thickets along a small stream at about 10 m. above sea level. The genus new 

 to the Philippines. 



Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula. Java. Australia and Samoa. 



ARACEJ^. 



CYRTOSPERMA Griff. 



Cyrtosperma griffithii (Hassk.) Schott. in Oest. Bot. Wochonbl. (1857) 61; 

 Engler in DC. Monog. Phan. 2 (1879) 271. Lasia merlcusii Hassk. Cat. Bog. 

 (1844) 59; PI. Jav. Bar. (1848) 161; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1855) 177. 



MiNDORO, Bulalacao (B. S. 1515 Bermejos) September, 1906. Samar, Boron- 

 gan (5218 Merrill) October, 1006. 



Java, Borneo and the Fiji Islands. 



This species is rather abundant in the Visayan Islands and was observed 

 by the author at several localities on the east coasts of Samar and Mindanao in 

 October, 1906. It is extensively cultivated in some places, notably Borongan, 

 and probably does not occur strictly wild in the Philippines. At Borongan 

 and other places wlicrc it was observed it was grown in ravines in coconut groves, 

 the petioles often ])eing 8 feet in length and .'5 to 4 inches in dinmotor and the 

 leaf-blades 5 feet in length. The genus is new to the Piiilipiiines. 



ma(}N()LTA(;e.i-:. 



KADSURA Kai'Mipfcr. 



Kadsura scandens liluiiic l''l. .liiv. Sclii/.iiiidn'iic (1S;?0) !t /. / ,■ Miq. I'l. hid. 

 B:it. 1= (1859) 19; King in Journ. .As. Soc. Beng. 58= (1889) :{75 ; Ann. JJot. 

 Gard. Calcutta 3 (1891) 221. pi. II. Sariorarpon urandois Bhune Bijdr. 

 (1825) 21. 



■This Journal, Mot. Sec. V. (1907), 2, 100. 



