PLANTS FItOM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 411 



L trifoliata Linn. 

 Sabtax, 3724 Fhiix. 



Not common in tlie Philippines; tropical Asia to southern C'liina, Malaya and 

 Australia, hut not known from Formosa. 



I. teysmanni Miq. 



Batax, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3W0 Mearns. 



Rather common and widely distributed in the Philippines; southern China and 

 Formosa through Malaya to New Caledonia. See Prain and Baker in Journ. 

 Bot. 40 (1902) 143. 



VIGNA Savi. 



V. luteola (Jacq.) Benth. 



Camiguin, JfOGJf Fenix. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



OXALIDAOE^. 



ox A LIS Linn. 

 O. repens Thunb. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3209 Mearns; 3591 Fenix. N. v., Pichic. 

 Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical and temperate parts of the 

 World, closely allied to Oxalis coniicnhtta Linn. 



ZYGOPHYLLACE^E. 



TRIBULUS Linn. 

 T. cistoides Linn. 

 FuGA, 32Jf7 Mearns. 



Not common in the Philippines; widely distributed in tropical and warm 

 regions of the World. 



RUTAOE^. 



FAGARA Linn. 

 F. integrifoliola Merr. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 8584 Fenix. N. v., Baroc. 

 Rather widely distributed in the central and northern Philippines; endemic. 



ME LI COPE Forst. 

 M. luzonensis Engl. 



Batax, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3215, 3235 Mearns; 3603 Fenix. N. v., 

 Ydacacayo. 



Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 



LUNASIA Blanco. 



Lunasia babuyanica sp. nov. 



Differt a Lunasia amara fructibus processibus mollibus dense stellato- 

 tomentosis circiter 5 mm longis obtectis. 



A shrub, with the general appearance of Lunasia amara Blanco, but 

 with quite different fruits. Branches, branchlets, inflorescence, the lower 

 surface of the leaves and midril) above rather densely pale-stellate-pubes- 

 eent. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblong, 20 to 30 cm long-, 8 to 12 cm 

 wide, submembranous, shining, the ape.x shortly and ahruptly blunt-acu- 

 minate, narrowed 1)elow toward the acute base, entire, the upper surface 



