436 MERRILL. 



OLDENLANDIA l.inn. 

 O. paniculata Liiui. 



Batan, J/yj M earns; 3621 Fenix. Babuyan, 396G Fcnix. 



A coinnion and widely distributed weed in tbe Philippines ; British India to 

 Formosa, Malaya and Polynesia. 



HEDYOTIS Linn. 



H. radicans (Bartl.) .Mi(i. I'l. In. I. Bat. 2 (1856) 181. 

 Metaholus radicam DC. Prudr. 4 (1830) 435. 

 Sclerococcus radicans Bartl. Herb, ex DC. 1. c. 

 Batax, Mount Iraya, 3799 Fenix. 



Known only from the Philippines; the specimen cited above agrees closely with 

 the original specimen, which I have examined in Herb. Prague. 



OPHIORRHIZA Linn. 



O. mungos lAnn. 



Batax, Santo Domingo de Basco, 36S2 Fenix. Sabtan, 37.'i9 Fenix. Babuyax, 

 391.'f Fenix. Camiguix, 396.'i, .^082 Fenix. 



British India to the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra and the Philippines; 

 not rpjiortod from fliina or Formosa. 



ARGOSTEMA \\all. 



A. solaniflorum Kim. j-eall. Philip. Bot. 1 (190G) 2. 

 Bata.x, near ^Nlount Iraya, 3790 Fenix, a luxuriant form. 



A species of doubtful value, described from Luzon material; no representative 

 of the genus is reported from Formosa or China. 



WENLANDIA Bartl. 



W. brachyantha Mcrr. 



Batax. Santo Domingo de Basco, 3723 Fenix; 3139, 320S Mcarns. Camiguix, 

 J,120 Fcni.v. 



Luzon; doubtfully distinct from U'. yiuhrata DC 



UNCARIA Schreb. 



U. setiloba lU-nth. in Hook. Loud. Jonrn. Bot. 2 (1843) 223; ITavil. in .Tourn. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 33 (18!)7) 8.-). 



L'. florida Vid. Phan. Cuming. I'liilip. (1885) 170; Mats. & Ilayata Knnin. PI. 

 Formo.sa (190G) 182. 



Camiglix, Ii0o2 Fenix. 



Formosa, the Philip|)ines, and Amboina. 



SARCOCEPHALUS Af/cl. 



S. orientalis i Linn, i comb. nov. 



Vephtdnnthus orientuUs J.,inn. 8p. PI. (1753) 95. 



Naurlea oricn talis Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (17G2) 243. 



yaurU;, cordata Roxl). Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 509. 



Sarriice}ihalus eordatvs Micp Fl. Ind. liat. 2 (185(1) 133: ilavil. in Jonrn. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 33 (1897) 27. 



('AMKiilN, 3992 Fenix. 



Wiflrjy distributed in the I'liilippincs ; I'.ritisli ln<lia to Ceylon, snnthfin Cliina, 

 Mabiva. Pohnesia. and noitlii-in Austialia. 



