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This species has previously been reported from the Philippines as 
Ampelocissus imperialis Planch., but that identification was certainly 
erroneous, although manifestly Ampelocissus ochracea and A. imperialis 
are closely allied. There is now a specimen in the herbarium of the 
Bureau of Science collected in Sumatra by Teysmann, manifestly a 
cotype of Ampelocissus imperialis (Miq.) Planch., which differs from our 
Philippine material in its larger, more numerously nerved leaves, and 
especially in the basal lobes of the leaves overlapping. Planchon has 
reduced “Vitis ochracea Teysm.” to Ampelocissus imperialis, but from 
his citation it is evident that he did not see the published description of 
Cissus ochracea T. & B. The type of Teysmann’s species was from Celebes, 
a plant cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, and his descrip- 
tion appears to me to apply to our Philippine form and not to Ampelocissus 
imperialis Planch. I have accordingly reinstated Teysmann’s species, and 
transferred it to its proper genus, Ampelocissus. 
AMPELOCISSUS BOTRYOSTACH YS Planch, in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 
(1887) 413; Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 24 (1911) 20. 
This characteristic endemic species was based on a specimen collected 
by Cuming in the vicinity of Mount Banahao, Luzon, distributed as num- 
ber 820 of Cuming’s Philippine collection, but until recently has not been 
rediscovered. Additional specimens, all from the Province of Laguna, 
Luzon, are as follows: near Paete, Baker 3695 ; Lilio, Gates 6k71 coll. 
Quisumbing; San Antonio, Bur. of Sci. 1099k, 16660 Ramos. 
AMPELOCISSUS MARTINI Planch, in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1887) 373; 
Gagnep. 1. c. 22. 
Ampelocissus barbata Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) 
Bot. 110, non Planch. 
Luzon, Province of Batangas, Balayan, Phil. PL 1879 Ramos, August, 
1914. Cuyo, Bur. Sci. 21376 Escritor, July, 1913. Palawan, Apulit 
Island, Taytay Bay, Merrill 9k25, May, 1913. Banton, McGregor 350, 
July, 1905. Guimaras, For. Bur. kS Ritchie, August, 1903. Semerara, 
Merrill kl50, June, 1905. 
This was previously determined and reported as Ampelocissus barbata 
Planch., a very closely allied species, but Doctor Gagnepain has recently 
referred my number 4150 (not 3150 as cited by him) to the Indo-Chinese 
species A. martini Planch. After a reexamination of our material, the 
descriptions, and a duplicate of Pierre 1803 from Cochinchina, I agree with 
Gagnepain’s identification of the Philippine specimen. 
AMPELOCISSUS PAUCI FLORA sp. nov. § Euampelo cissus. 
Species ut videtur A. aculeatae et A. acetosae affinis, differt 
inermibus, omnibus partibus glabris, foliolis oblongo-ovatis ad 
ovato-lanceolatis, acute acuminatis, inflorescentiis paucifloris. 
A slender, unarmed, scandent vine, entirely glabrous, 6 to 8 m 
in length, the branches and branchlets terete, brownish or 
purplish when dry, often glaucescent. Leaves pedately 5- to 
7-foliolate, their petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long; leaflets submem- 
branaceous or chartaceous, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the 
outermost lateral ones smaller than the others, 4 to 8 cm long, 
