xi; c, 3 Merrill: New Philippine Vitaceae 127 
2 to 3.5 cm wide, the base acute, the apex rather slenderly 
and very sharply acuminate, the margins in the upper one-half 
or two-thirds with distant, small, usually appressed, sharp teeth, 
dull, the upper surface pale-yellowish to olivaceous when dry, 
the lower surface paler and more or less glaucous, the nerves 
and reticulations distinct; petiolule of the middle leaflet 7 to 10 
mm long, the common one of the lateral leaflets usually a little 
longer, their petiolules proper 3 to 4 mm long. Peduncles leaf- 
opposed, slender, 7 to 9 cm long, forked, bearing the inflorescence 
and a slender, usually forked tendril. Cymes subumbellate, the 
flowers few, 6 to 15 in the material examined, umbellately 
arranged, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, the bracteoles oblong- 
ovate, 1 mm long. Calyx shallow, very obscurely 5-toothed, 
1.2 mm in diameter. Petals 5, free, purple, oblong, obtuse, 2 
mm long, cucullate. Filaments about 1 mm long, more or less 
flattened ; anthers orbicular-ovoid, 0.5 mm long. Ovary ap- 
parently purple, ovoid, distinctly 5-angled, 1 to 1.2 mm long, 
the style none. Fruit dark-purple or nearly black, fleshy, globose, 
7 to 9 mm in diameter when dry and often somewhat glaucous, 
containing three or four seeds. Seeds narrowly obovoid, 6 mm 
long, smooth and shining, the base acute, the apex rounded, the 
two internal faces concave, the back convex, with a median, 
longitudinal, shallow depression bearing the linear-oblong 
chalaza; albumen T-shaped in cross-section. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Baquilin River, For. Bur. 6957 Curran 
(type). May 9, 1907, clambering over shrubs in dry river bed: Province 
of Bataan, Lamao River, Merrill 3280, October, 1903, in thickets on bluffs 
along the seashore: Province of Union, San Fernando, Bur. Sci. 21116 
Escritor, June, 1913. Cuyo, Bur. Sci. 21363 Escritor, July, 1913. Pala- 
wan, Taytay, Merrill 9377, May, 1913, in thickets along the seashore. 
Calusa, Bur. Sci. 15659 Fenix, July, 1912. 
A species well characterized by its pedately 5- to 7-foliolate leaves, its 
sharply acuminate leaflets which are more or less glaucous beneath, and its 
slenderly peduncled, few-flowered inflorescences. 
AMPELOCISSUS MULTI FOLIOLA sp. nov. § Kalocissus. 
Frutex scandens subtus foliis petiolis ramulis inflorescentiisque 
dense rufo-tomentosis, vel ramuiis pallide tomentosis, foliis 
pedatim 13-foliolatis, foliolis anguste oblongis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acuminatis supra repando- 
dentatis; inflorescentiis pedunculatis, spicis numerosis, patulis, 
gracilis, 2 ad 5 cm longis; floribus 5-meris, glabris, brevibus; 
fructibus carnosis, ellipsoideis, 2 cm longis. 
A scandent tendril-bearing shrub, the branches terete, tomen- 
tose with rather long, matted hairs which in age become nearly 
