The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany, 
Vol. X, No. 4, July, 1915. 
PLANTAE WENZELIANAE, III 
By E. D. Merrill 1 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, 
Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The second paper under the above title was published in 1914, 2 
and the present one is in all respects similar to it, being based 
primarily on botanical material collected by Mr. C. A. Wenzel, 
in Leyte. In the first two papers seventy-one new species were 
proposed, while in the present one twenty-one new species are 
described and the new genus Wenzelia of the family Rutaceae . 
The genera Trigonopleura and Sarcostigma are new to the Philip- 
pine flora. New forms are described in the following families: 
Rutaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Moraceae, Commelinaceae, Urticaceae, 
Fagaceae, Barseraceae, Araceae, Sytnplocaceae, Myristicaceae, 
Flacourtiaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Lauraceae, Melastomataceae, and 
Icacinaceae. A few notes on nomenclature are included. 
ARACEAE 
RHAPHIDOPHORA Hasskarl 
RHAPHIDOPHORA ACUMINATA sp. nov. 
Scandens, ramis circiter 0.5 cm diametro ; foliis oblongis, sub- 
coriaceis, integris, oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, inaequilate- 
ralibus, usque ad 23 cm longis, tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, basi 
subacutis, nitidis, nervis utrinque numerosis, dense dispositis, 
primariis quam secundariis paullo distinctioribus ; spadicibus 
cilindricis, circiter 10 cm longis, 1 cm diametro. 
Scandent, glabrous, about 4 m high, the stems about 1 cm in 
diameter, the branchlets 5 mm thick. Leaves subcoriaceous, 
dark olivaceous when dry, shining, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
12 to 23 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, apex slenderly caudate- 
acuminate, base subacute, distinctly inequilateral, one side one- 
third to one-half wider than the other; lateral nerves very 
numerous, slender, dense, the primary ones more distinct than 
‘Associate professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
2 Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1904) Bot. 353—389. 
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