114 MKIMMr.L. 



71. STRONGYLODON \ ng. 



Kixcemes very luii;^', peudfiit, exceedinj,' 1 iii in Icii^tli 1. <S'. macrobotii/s 



Kacemes less than 40 cm in length, scanely pendulous. 

 Ovary densely pubescent. 



Flowers 3 cm long or soinewliat loss 2. S. clmeri 



Flowers 4 to 5 cm long '. 3. S. zschokkei 



Ovary glabrous. 



Flowers red 4. .S'. lucidus 



Flowers green (color unknown in S- crassifolius) . 



Nodes of tlie intloresfeme produced into 1 to 2 cm long branchlets. 



5. 8. caerulcus 

 Nodes of the inflorescence only very sliglitly produced. 



Ovules 1 or 2 6. S. crassifolius. 



Ovules 5 7. -S'. pulcher 



1. Strongylodon macrobotrys A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. 

 (1854) 44S. t. ',!>: :\[err. in riiili]). .To<nn. Sci. 1 (inOfi) Suppl. 66. 3 (1908) 

 Bot. 81. 



HtroiKjylodon Karbiirgii Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1004) 85? 



Luzox, Province of Laguna, Los Bauos, Wilkes Expedition (type in U. S. 

 National Herbarium). Merrill 51 tJ,, Slarch, 1906; Paete-Piapi, For. Bur. 9565 

 Currm, March, 1908: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 6235, 6524 Curran, Williams 

 633, Whitford 67, 160, For. Bur. 2S0S Meyer, Copeland s. n.: Province of Tayabas, 

 Merrill JfOlO, Elmer 9336. ]\riNDORO, McGregor 190, For. Bur. 12015 Merrift. 



Native names: Tayabac, hayo-u (Bataan); btiracan (Mindoro). 



Known only from Luzon and Alindoro, and a most striking species, growing 

 usually in liumid forests, ravines, etc., extending from slightly above sea level 

 (Laguna, ^lindoro), to an altitude of 1,000 m (Mount Mariveles. Bataan). The 

 long, pendent, many-flowered racemes exceed 1 m in length, and the flowers are 

 variously described as greenish-blue, nile-green, green, and verdigris; they are a 

 very peculiar pallid greenish or bluish-green shade difficult to describe. Dried 

 flowers appear as though they were tinged with purple, although in reality there 

 is no trace of pvirple in the fresh flowei's. The original description calls for 

 reddish or purplish flowers, but as indicated by Gray, there were no notes with 

 the specimen, and the color was probably estimated from the dried specimens. 

 Fully grown flowers vary from 4 to 5 or 6 cm in length, or, if the keel be straight- 

 ened out, sometimes 7 cm long. Doctor Perkins has described the flowers of 8. 

 anrburyii as 8.5 cm long, but T have seen none as large as this, and the measure- 

 ment may be due to a typographical error. I can not otherwise distinguish the 

 latter species from 8. macrobotrys. I have examined the type of 8. macrobotrys, 

 but not that of 8. tcarburgii. 



2. Strongylodon elmeri Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 20. 

 lA-Ao^. I'rnviiKc of Bcnguet, Elmer 6260, S98'i : Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 



1(!67(> Itaraiii. 



Endemic. 



li. Strongylodon zschokkei Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 297. 



Lrzo.x, Province of Bcnguel, IHmrr 9,7'/'^ (coiyiu'l. 



Apparently very closely allied to (he ])n'ieding. and jicrhaps not speciflcally 

 distinct; my material of 8. zschokkei is .so jtnor fliat it is difficiilt to determine 

 the exact difTerences between it nn 8. clmeri. 'I'ln' llowcrs arc described as having 



