NOTIOS OX PHILIPPINE P.OTANY. 121 



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CHONEMORPHA (I. J)oii. 



Chonemorpha elliptica (Phnico) Merrill & Rolfe conih. iiov. 



T(ihrrn(iciii(>iit(iH(t clliptu'd Blanco Fi. Filip. (IS37) ll")-, ed. 2 (1845) 8:5; vd. 

 3, 1:152; F.-Viil. Nov. App. (1883) 132. 



Vhonoiiorpha iiuici Ojihi/Ua Mew. in Govt. Lab. Piihl. 29 (1905) 45, non Don. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 270'/; For. Bur. ll.'/l Ahcni'.'i 

 collector; Bur. Sci. 1065 Ramos; Loher SS81; San Mateo, Vidal S265. 



The Philippine form cannot with propriety be referred to Vhonemorpha nincro- 

 phylla G. Don, as it has flowers about one-half the size of those of the latter and 

 differs in some other characters. As the specimens above cited represent a 

 different species, Blanco's specific name is here adopted, because this is certainly 

 the plant that Blanco described under the name Tahenmcinontava elliptica. 



ALYXIA R. Br. 



Alyxia lucida Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. C!arey & Wall. 2 (1824) 540; Hook. 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) ()35 ; King & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74= 

 (1007) 418. 



CuLiON, Merrill 61J/, December, 1902. 



Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo; new to tlie Philippines. 



WRIGHTIA R. Br. 



Wrightia calyclna A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 406; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (185(5) 

 433. 



GuiMARAS, For. Bur. 228 Ga nun ill. Mashate, Merrill 30S2, SOJ/U. Palawan, 

 For. Bur. -'pjlO Curran. 



The above specimens agree very closely in all essential characters with authen- 

 tic specimens of this species from Timor, in Herb. Kew. 



Timor. 



AS(;LEPIA1)ACE3]. 



ISCHNOSTEMMA King & Gand)le. 



Ischnostemma carnosum ( R. Br.) Merrill & Rolfe comb. nov. 



Oxystelnia carnosum R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 402. 



Vincetoxicum. carnosum- Bentli. Fl. Austral. 4 (18()9) 331. 



Gynanchum carnosum Schltr. in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 120. 



Ischnostemma selangoriea Ring & Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74- (11)07) 

 532. 



Luzon, Loher JiO.iU, .'iU',0: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams ,iS7, 

 December, 1903. 



In 1907 King and Gamble described the above monotypic genus, based on 

 specimens collected in Selangor by Ridley and the specimens collected bj?^ Loher 

 in Luzon, cited above. In 1904, however, Schlechter had identified the second of 

 Loher's two nmnbers as Oxystelma carnosum R. Br., and transferred the species 

 to Gynanchum. In working over the material at Kew. the same lunnber of Loher's 

 collection being found cited under both tlie above genera, Mr. N. E. Brown, 

 sj)ecialist on Asclepiadacea' at Kew, was asked to compare the specimens with 

 Robert Brown's type of Oxysielma earnosun}. Botli the type in the British 



