NOTES ()\ riiiLirnxE p.otaxy. 101 



appears to be the same as Cardaininc ih'bilis Banks & Solander, and this may 

 not improbably have been Forster's typical Hisynihrium heterophyllum, but the 

 Mindanao form ditTers from the Tasmanian {Gunn MUi) in the size of the 

 flowers and otherwise. It does not appear where Forster's var. a was met with, 

 but the probability is that it was in New Zealand. The material is hardly 

 sulHcient to warrant the establishment of a new species, even if the plant 

 discovered on Mount Malindang by ^Nlcarns & Hutchinson l)i' identical with 

 Forster's single gathering. (J. R. D.) 



CAPPARIDACE.E. 



CAPPARIS Linn. 



Capparis Cumingii Merrill & Rolfe sp. nov. 



Scandens, glabra; spiriis nullis vel mimitis; foliis oblongis, subcoriaceis, 

 usque ad 11 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice breviter et late acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque 7 vel 8; panieulis terminalibus, floribus ad apices ramu- 

 lorum subvimbellatis dispositis; l)accis globosis. 



.Scaiident, glabrous tlirougliout. Branches terete, at least the upper 

 portions spineless, the panicle-ljranches sometimes sul)tended 1)V two 

 small spines. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 9 to 11 cm long, 3 to 5 cm 

 wide, the base rounded, the apex short, broadly acuminate ; nerves 7 or 8 

 on each side of the midril) ; i)etioles 2 to 2.5 cm long. Inflorescence a 

 terminal panicle about 20 cm long, the primary branches stout, spread- 

 ing, the lower ones 5 to 7 cm long, the flowers su1)uml)ellately disposed 

 at the ends of the branches, 3 to 10 flowers on each l^ranchlet, tlieir 

 pedicels 1 to 2.5 cm long. Buds globose. Flowers rather large. Sej^als 

 ■1, concave, iml)ricate, ovate, rounded, 1 cm long or less. Petals obovate 

 or oblong, 2 cm long or less. Stamens indefinite, their filaments 2.5 

 cm long; the stij^e to the ovary 3 to 3.5 cm long. Fruit globose, glabrous, 

 2 cm in diameter, the jjedicel thickened above. 



Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming 123Ji. 



A characteristic species, distinguishable by its oblong subcoriaceous leaves and 

 terminal panicles of rather large flowers, the flowers being long-pedicelled and 

 fascicled at the ends of the branches. 



CUNONIACE^. 



SPIRAEOPSIS Miq. 



Spiraeopsis celebica Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. V (18.57) 71!t; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. 

 (1892) .57. 



Luzox, Province of Camarines Sur, Mount Isarog, Yidal 211'.), in Herb. Kew. 



This monotypic genus is, so far as is known, confined to Celebes and Luzon, 

 and has previously been credited to the Philippines in the rather obscure "Cata- 

 logo de las Plantas del Herbario," published in Manila in 1892. In view of its 

 special interest in adding a species belonging to a monotypic genus to the already 

 long list known only from Celebes and the Philippines, it is again enumerated 

 here. 



