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densely appressed-pubeseent with short, shining, tawny hairs, 
the teeth broad, subacute, 0.5 mm long. Corolla and stamens 
straw-colored, the petals free quite to the base or merely slightly 
connate below, about 6 mm long, 2 mm wide, acute or obtuse, 
pubescent externally. Stamens indefinite, the filaments at least 
1 cm long, the lower 2 mm united into a tube. Pods unknown. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, railroad grade west of Baguio, Phil. PL 
1779 Merrill May, 1914, in ravines along small streams, altitude about 
1,300 meters. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Pithecolobium ellipticum Hassk., 
from which its differs in its very differently shaped, smaller, more numer- 
ously nerved leaflets, its petals free or nearly so, and other characters; 
the duplicates were erroneously distributed as Pithecolobium platycarpum 
Merr., to which species the present form is not closely allied. 
NEPTUNIA Loureiro 
NEPTUNIA OLERACEA Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 664. 
Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Bunauan, E. H. Taylor, September, 
1913. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
This species was credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar, 5 but was 
excluded by me 0 as at the time I revised the Philippine Leguminosae as 
F.-Villar’s record was based on Cuming 2352, which was from Malacca, 
not from the Philippines. Taylor’s specimen is the first collection of the 
species in the Philippines. 
KOOMPASSIA Maingay 
KOOMPASSIA EXCELSA (Becc.) Taubert in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflan- 
zenfam. 3 s (1891) 166; Bericht Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 10 (1892) 641, 
t. 32, f. IS. 
Abauria excelsa Becc. Malesia 1 (1877) 169; Nelle Foreste di Borneo 
(1902) 172, /. 3%. 
Palawan, Alphonso III, For. Bur. 21580 Danao, May 10, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 20 meters, flowers fragrant, light-yellow, locally 
known by the Tagbanuas as manggis. 
Beccari proposed the genus Abauria for this plant, but Taubert has 
reduced it to Koompassia, although the fruits are not definitely known. 
The Palawan specimen is manifestly identical with the Bornean species, 
agreeing in all essentials with Beccari’s description and figure, and with 
a Sarawak specimen, Foxworthy 33U, collected under the native name 
tapang, the same native name cited by Beccari. Dr. Foxworthy’s spec- 
imen is sterile, but with it is a detached fruit, picked up from the ground, 
which may or may not belong to the species; this fruit is the characteristic 
winged one of Koompassia, strongly resembling that of Koompassia bec- 
cariana Taubert. A very interesting addition to the few known species 
confined to the Philippines and Borneo, most of which are not found in 
the Philippines proper but in Palawan and in the Sulu Archipelago. 
5 Novis. App. (1880) 73. 
' Philip. Jour-n. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 136. 
