48 MALriGHIACE-E. 



Malpighiaceae. 



Ryssopteris BLUME. 



Ryssopteris Cumingiana A. Juss. in YroAL Phanerog. Cum. Pliilipp. 

 p. 99. 



HAS. Kotosho, leg. T. KAWAKAMI et S. SASAKI, Juli. 1912. 



Determined by Mr. T. KAWAKAMI at Manila in his trip to the 

 Archipelago. 



Hiptage 



Hiptage leptophylla HAYATA sp. iiov. Kami fusco-purpurascentes vel 

 fuscentes, recti, graciles. Folia opposita membranacea, ovata vel ovato- 

 oblonga, rarius obovata, maxima 8 cm. longa 4 cm. lata, apice abrupte acuta 

 vel apiculato-acuta, basi late cmieata vel rotundato-acuta, costis venis et venulis 

 utraque pagine tenuissime elevatis distinctis, supra glabra, subtus ad et prope 

 costam adpresse hirsuta, petioHs 5 mm. longis adpresse hirsutis. Racemi 

 axillares vel terminales, oppositi, plerumque ad axillas gemini, 5-6 cm. 

 longi dense vel laxe florati, rhachidibus et pedicellis adpresse pubescentibus, 

 bracteis subulato-lanceolatis 2-3 mm. longis, pedicellis 5-10 mm. longis. Sepala 

 5, insequalia oblonga vel oblongo-rectangularia, apice rotundata, basi sequilata, 

 circ. 4 mm. longa 2^ mm. lata, extus adpresse pubescentia intus glabra, sed 

 basi hirsuta. Petala 5 rotundato-oblonga, 13 mm. longa 9 mm. lata, apice 

 rotundata, basi brevissime unguiculata, (unguibus angustissimis f mm. latis 

 2 mm. longis) extus adpresse hirsuta intus glabra margine fimbriata multiner- 

 vata. Stamina 10, declinata, omnia fertiha, unum cetris multo majus. Stylus 

 1 fih'formis primum circinnatus, stigmate capitellato rarius truncate. 



HAB. Tandaisha, Jyogesha, leg. U. MORI, Aprili. 1910. 



Near H. Madablota GJERTN. ; but differs from it in having much shorter 

 racemes, smaller flowers and very much thinner and smaller leaves. It 

 differs also from H. obtusifdia DC., by the ovate acute leaves. 



