NOTES ON 1'I1II.IIM'IM0 I'.OTANY. Ill 



TRIUMFETTA riiimier. 



Triumfetta repens (Blume) ALeirill & Kolfe comb. nov. 

 Porpa rcpcus Blume Bijdr. (1825) 198; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1= (1859) 198. 

 Triumfetta suhpahnata Soland. ex Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. 28 (1890) 2, pi. 

 293, f. 1. 



Triumfetta procumhens Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1903) 17, non 

 Forst. 



Luzon, Province of Caniarines Siir, Merrill 3313, November, 1903: Province 

 of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 8401 Merritt d Curran, December. 1907. Mindoro, 

 Pola, Merrill 2381, May, 1903. 



Hemsley 1. c. has shown that this form is distinct from Triumfetta j)rocumbens 

 Forst., but Blume's specific name is much the earlier and is here retained for 

 the species. It is the type of the genus Porpa Blume. A cotype of Blume's 

 species is in the herbarium of Columbia University, and Dr. C. B. Robinson who 

 has examined it informs us that it is identical with the material cited above. 



Seashores, Java, Borneo, islands oflF the coast of Cochin China, Keeling Islands 

 and some groups of islands off the coast of Queensland. 



MALVAOE.E. 



HIBISCUS Linn. 



Hibiscus syriacus Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 695; Masters in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 1 (1874) 344; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 25; Naves 1. c. t. 346. 



Mindoro, Calapan, Bur. Sci. 930 Manguhaf, June, 1906. 



The only previous record for this species as a Philippine plant is that of 

 F.-Villar, and his work being in general so untrustworthy, it is again recorded 

 here. .The species occurs in the Philippines only as a cultivated plant, as is the 

 case with UiMsciis rosa-sinensis L., H. r)iutaUlis L., and H. schisopetalus Hook. 



SI DA Linn. 



Sida coryiifolia Wall. Cat. (1828) no. 1805; Masters in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 1 (1874) 342; E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 30 (1892) 240. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Vidnl 2169, 2180; For. Bur. 2441 Ahern's collector. 



The species is not common in the Philippines, and is apparently local, the only 

 previous record of the species from the Archipelago being that of Baker, 1. c. 



Burma to southern China, Java and the Pliilippines. 



Sida balabacensis IMerrill & Polfe sp. nov. 



Siiffruticosa, erecta; ramis ramulis pedicellis calycibiisque plus minus 

 dense cinereo-stellato-pubenilis; foliis oblongo-ovatis, basi rotundatis, 

 apice acuniinatis, margine dentatis, subtus leviter puberulis; floribus 

 axillaribus solitariis, pedicellis circiter medium articulatis, geniculatis, 

 usque ad 3 em longis; carpellis 8, 5 mm longis, verrucosis, apice biros- 

 tratis, rostris 4 mm longis, retrorso-pilosis. 



Erect, more or less branched, suffrutescent. Branches somewhat com- 

 pressed, densely gray-Rtellate-pii1)erulent or pubescent. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the base broad, rounded or 



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