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The species is apparently most closely allied to Nepenthes copelandii 
Merr., of Mindanao, differing, however, in many characters. It resembles 
Nepenthes alata Blanco, at least the form I take to be a juvenile stage, 
but the type number has quite wingless pitchers. Good differential charac- 
ters are its comparatively short capsules and its short-petioled flowers, 
together with its very obscurely nerved leaves, the lateral nerves, at times, 
being quite obsolete. 
ROSACEAE 
ANGELESI A Korthals 
ANGELESI A SPLENDENS Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 3 (1854) 384; 
Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3 (1867) 236; Boerl. & Koord. in 
Ic. Bogor. 1 (1901) t. 96. 
Licania angelesia Blume Mel. Bot. (1855) no. 2, Flora 41 (1858) 256. 
Trichocarya splendens Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 358. 
Chrysobalanus splendens Miq. 1. c. in syn. 
Parinarium nitidum Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 310; King in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 1 (1897) 284. 
Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Piper 249, April, 1911. Samar, Bur. 
Sci. 17481 Ramos, April, 1914, Phil. PI. 1696 Ramos. Palawan, Phil. 
PI. 1224 Merrill, Elmer. Sibuyan, Elmer 12180, 12214, distributed as a 
new species of Parinarium. 
I have examined the following extra-Philippine material: Penang, 
Curtis 14a, 147, Ridley s. n. Malay Peninsula, Setul, Ridley 1503. 
Borneo, Sarawak, Tabuan, Native collector 784 Bureau of Science. 
I think that there can be no doubt as to the validity of Korthals’s genus, 
which is well figured by Boerlage and Koorders 1. c. The species and 
genus were based on material collected in Borneo by Korthals, and as 
Boerlage and Koorders explain, were joined by Miquel 4 with Diemenia 
racemosa Korth. to form the genus Trichorcarya Miq. Later Miquel 
himself 5 6 separated the two genera, which, as Boerlage and Koorders note, 
has been overlooked by later authors. Bentham and Hooker f.“ retain 
Miquel’s Trichocarya with two species, and Focke 7 maintains the genus 
Angelesia with 2 or 3 species. Trichocarya splendens Miq., the type of 
the genus Trichocarya, is identical with Angelesia splendens Korth., but 
Miquel’s second species, Trichocarya ? racemosa Miq. ( Diemenia racemosa 
Korth.) is, according to Boerlage and Koorders, identical with the earlier 
Parastemon urophyllus A. DC. 
The only synonym I have added to the list given by Boerlage and 
Koorders is Parinarium nitidum Hook, f., which is manifestly identical 
with Korthals’s species. Hooker cites in the original description “Malacca, 
Griffith, Maingay (Herb. Kew 619) .-Distrib. Borneo;” King, among other 
specimens, cites “Griffith 2047/1 while Boerlage and Koorders cite in their 
discussion Griffith 2047, and a part of their plate, the fruiting specimen, 
is drawn from Griffith’s specimen. Hooker himself indicated Parinarium 
nitidum as the type of an unnamed subgenus. King includes the species 
4 FI. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 358. 
6 Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3 (1867) 236. 
6 Gen. Plant. 1: 607. 
7 Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 3 (1888) 60. 
