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Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 
303 
The species is apparently very rare in the Philippines, but although Blanco’s 
specimens were from Pasig, near Manila, I have seen but a single Philippine 
specimen that I consider referable to the genus and species : Luzon, Province 
of Pampanga, Arayat, Merrill H62, March, 1903, erroneously placed under 
Mollugo. 
RANUNCULACEAE 
CLEMATIS Linnaeus 
CLEMATIS LESCH EN AULTI AN A DC. var. SUBGLABRI FOLIA var. nov. 
A typo differt foliolis glabris vel subglabris, subtus parcissime 
breviter hirsutis. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polis, Bur. Sci. 19813 McGregor, 
February, 1913: Subprovince of Lepanto, Mount Malaya, For. Bur. H4.96 
Darling, January, 1909. 
The typical form of the species, which is well represented in the Bureau 
of Science herbarium by a large series of specimens from Mountain 
Province, Luzon, has rather densely ciliate-hirsute leaves. In the variety 
above proposed the leaves are nearly glabrous; otherwise the form is 
very similar to typical Clematis leschenaultiana DC. 
MENISPERMACEAE 
HYPSERPA Miers 
ZANTHOXYLUM ? TRIPLINERVE Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36 2 
(1863) 597; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 35; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 74; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1905) 161 = HYPSERPA 
CUSPIDATA (Wall.) Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. II 7 (1851) 40; 
Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 206. 
The status of Turczaninow’s species has been doubtful, as from his 
description it is at once evident that the plant he described, having simple 
leaves, could not be a Zanthoxylum, as indicated by Perkins 1. c. Doctor 
Perkins indicates that such a Province as “North Hows,” cited by Turc- 
zaninow, does not exist in Luzon, and suggested that the plant may have 
come from Lord Howe’s Island. Through the kindness of the director of the 
Botanical Institute of the University of Kharkoff, I have been able to 
examine Turczaninow’s type which is preserved in the herbarium of that 
institution. The original label reads “Runner No. 2, Ilocos Norte, Island 
of Luzon, April, 1839, H. C.,” with notes on the dissection of the flowers by 
Turczaninow. The plant is identical in all respects with Cuming 1252, 
localized by Cuming himself as from the Province of North Ilocos (=: Ilocos 
Norte), which is Hypserpa cuspidata Miers; the specimen in Turczaninow’s 
herbarium, type of Zanthoxylum ? triplinerve Turcz., is unquestionably 
a part of the same collection. 
CAPPARIDACEAE 
CAPPARIS Linnaeus 
CAPPARIS AFFINIS sp. nov. 
Species C. sepiariae affinis, differt foliis majoribus, usque ad 
9 cm longis, coriaceis, nervis utrinque magis numerosis, utrinque 
circiter 8. 
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