98 MERKILL AND KOLl'K. 



Polygonum praetermissum Ih^ok. f. Fl. lirit. Iiul. 5 (188(5) 47; Forbes & 

 Henisl. in Journ. Linn. 800. But. 26 (1891) 347. 



Lvzox, Province of Ik-iijiuet. Lohrr Jj~)!>S : l)i:^tri('t of Li'])anl(), Mount Data, 

 Merrill .'/li/. 



p]astern India and ('cylon to central (liina, also in Tasmania; new to tiic 

 Philippines. 



Polygonum Posumbu liamilt. in 1). Don Prodr. Fl. Nepal. (1S23) 71; 

 Forbes (S: Ilenisl. in Joiun. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1891) 34(i. 



Luzox, Province of Benguet, MerrUl JjSOo ; Elmer 517 (! ; Williavis I'/oO. 



Eastern Tlimalavan region to China, .Taj)an, Formosa and Java; new to the 

 Philippines. 



RANUNCULACE.15. 



CLEMATIS Linn. 



Clematis Meyenlana ^^■alp. in Nov. Act. Nsn. C\ir. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 

 297; Forbes iV llenisl. in -lonrn. Linn. Soc. 'Bot. 23 (1880) 5; Hook. f. in C'urtiss' 

 Bot. Mag. III. 59 (1903) ?>/. 7891. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Lohcr: Suyoc to Pauai, Merrill Ji777, November, 

 1906, alt. 2,000 m. 



A species e.xtending from southern China to the Riu Kiu Islands and Formosa, 

 not previously reported from the Philippines. 



NARAVELIA DC. 



Naravelia Loheri Merrill & Ivolfe sp. nov. 



tScandeiis; foliis op})ositis, petiolatis, intcgris, in('iiil)r;uiaceis, acumi- 

 natis, basi 5-nei'viis; lioribus solitariis, tenninalihiis, lunge ijcdtineulatis; 

 sepalis 4, ovatis; petalis circiter 12, lineari-spatulatis, circiter 2 cm longis, 

 2 mm latis; ovario villosissimo ; aclicnis laiuri)lalis. |)lus minus liirsutis, 

 2 cm longis, ecaudatis. 



iScandcnt, tlio stems slender, leddisli or straw coloi'ed. striate, sj)aringly 

 jjilose, becoming nearly glalirous, tlie young shoots rather densely fer- 

 rnginons-])ubepCPnt. Leaves ()p|)osite, tlie petiol(> nboiit 2 cm long, 

 slightly i)ilose or ])ubescent; leaHi'ts 2, o\ale or ol(loiig-o\ate, meiuliraii- 

 ous, glabrous or nearly so, entire or raivly with one or two large or 

 small teeth, base rounded or acute, apex acuminate and tipped with a 

 small mucro, 5 to 8 cm h)ng, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide; nerves 5, basal, promi- 

 nent, ascending, the reticulations lax, rather ])rominent; petiolules 



1 cm long or less, usually densely pubescent, the tendril elongated, 

 slender, glabrous, 3-partite at the a])ex. Flowers few, solitary, at the 

 apices of the lateral biniiches. the pciliincles 4 cm long or more, somewhat 

 ])ul)escent, elongated in liuil. Se])als 4, 8 to 1) mm long, ovate, some- 

 what pubescent, deci<luoiis. i'etals about 12, linear-spatulatc, glabrous, 



2 cm long, or less, 2 mm wide above. Stamens ahoiil ."> mm long. 

 C!arpels densely hirsute. Achenes 10 to 15, about 2 cm long, narrowly 

 lanceolate, ajipn^ssed-birsute but not densely so, gradually narrowed above 

 to a slender beak, not tjiiled. 



