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subobtusely acuminate, acumen broad, + 2 cM. long; both 

 sides glabrous, or the lower one somewhat puberulous on 

 the midrib; pairs of nerves in the terminal leaflets 5—6, 

 in the lateral ones 3—4; 10-12 by 6V2— 7V2 cM. (7 by 

 2V2-5 cM., Merrill); petiolules 1 — 1.3 cM. (0.4—1 cM., 

 Merrill); petioles 7 cM. (3—4 cM., Merrill); interpetiolar 

 margins present; panicles large, terminal, 20—40 cM. long, 

 leafed below; flowers purple; calyx puberulent within and 

 without, tube in anthesis 0.4 cM., lobes 0.4 cM., oblong- 

 lanceolate; in fruit tube 1 cM., the lobes oblanceolate, 

 3-nerved, 1.5—2 by 0.5—0.7 cM."; corolla equalling the 

 calyx; tube 0.5 cM., narrowly funnel-shaped, puberulous 

 without and slightly so at the throat inside; lobes oblong- 

 ovate, 0.3 cM., rounded; stamens 4; filaments somewhat 

 puberulous, 0.4 cM.; anthers 0.1 cM. 



Palawan: Merrill no. 12892, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 

 Pulgar). 



Distribution : Mindanao? 



Merrill remarks that the same or a very closely allied species 

 has been discovered by Hallier in 1904, S. Ramon, Mindanao. 

 This makes it possible that the species is identical with P. 

 ternata Hall. f. (q. v.) 



2. P, ternata Hallier f., Meded. s Rijks Herb. Leid. 

 no. 37, 85, (1918) — A shrub, climbing by means of 

 the petioles; branchlets quadrangular, densely, rather 

 minutely ferruginous-pubescent, with interpetiolar margins; 

 leaves 3-foliolate, opposite; leaflets ovate, base rounded 

 or somewhat cordate, apex acuminate; margins entire; 

 chartaceous, when young with sparse simple hairs on both 

 sides, adult glabrous except for some plumose hairs on 

 the lower surface near the base, present in all stages of 

 age; pairs of nerves 4; 3— 6'/2 by 1.6—4.2 cM.; petiolules 

 0.3—0.8 cM.; petioles 1.7—5 cM.; petiolules, petioles 

 and inflorescences ferruginous-pubescent; cy mules or cymes 

 composing a large, leafed, terminal panicle, each of them 



