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credited the species to Luzon on the basis of Cuming 513 from Laguna 
Province. Blume’s original description, however, as well as Planchon’s 
later one, is incomplete and unsatisfactory. The specimens cited above 
appear to fall under Cayratia geniculata as keyed out by Gagnepain, and 
are apparently close to the form designated by Blume as the variety 
mollis. 
Doctor Gagnepain credits to the Philippines the closely allied Cayratia. 
mollissima Gagnep. ( Cissus mollissima Planch.), the references being to 
specimens collected by Baume, near Manila, and by Perrottet, from Zam- 
boanga, Mindanao. I have seen no Philippine material that I consider 
referable to this species, and I suspect that flowering specimens of the 
form I have referred to Columella geniculata may match the Philippine 
material referred by Gagnepain to Cayratia mollissima. The latter species 
is distinguished by its large fruits and large seeds, and I have no Phil- 
ippine material that agrees with the species, as described, in these 
characters. In fruit and seed characters the material cited above agrees 
with Columella geniculata, not with Cayratia mollissima Gagnep. 
Var. SARCOCARPA var. nov. 
A species differt subtus foliis ad costa ramulis petiolisque parce 
ciliatis haud molliter pubescentibus, foliolis lateralibus basi 
rotundatis vel obtusis vix cordatis vel subcordatis nervis reticu- 
lisque prominentibus. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Merrill 2531 (type), June, 
1903, For. Bur. 19136 Curran, December, 1909, For. Bur. 1786 Borden, 
August, 1904, Elmer 6700, November, 1904: Province of Laguna, San 
Antonio, Bur. Sci. 10951 Ramos, August, 1910. Mindoro, Baco River, 
Merrill 993, April, 1903. 
This form may ultimately prove to be worthy of specific rank, but as 
there is some doubt in my mind as to the correctness of my present inter- 
pretation of Columella geniculata, I have considered it expedient to indicate 
the present form merely as a variety. In aspect, pubescence, the much 
more prominent veins and reticulations, and somewhat in the shape of its 
leaflets it is decidedly different from the form I have referred to Columella 
geniculata, although in floral characters it closely approaches that species. 
The fruits when fresh are soft, fleshy, somewhat watery, pink, globose, 
and about 1.5 cm in diameter, shrinking much in drying. It occurs in 
thickets and in forests along streams at low altitudes. 
COLUMELLA CORNICULATA (Benth.) comb. nov. 
Vitis corniculata Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 54. 
Cissus corniculata Planch, in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1887) 563. 
Cayratia corniculata Gagnep. in Not. Syst. 1 (1911) 347. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Merrill 2535, 7206, June, 
1903, March, 1911, with flowers and fruit, Whitford 23, April, 1904, with 
fruit only, For. Bur. 19155 Curran, December, 1909, with flowers and fruit, 
For. Bur. 2170 Meyer, with flowers and fruit, Williams 25, with fruit, 
Elmer 6672, with fruit: Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 7207, with 
flowers: Province of Laguna, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 10935 Ramos, August, 
1910: Province of Albay, For. Bur. 12389 Curran, June, 1908, with buds 
and fruit. 
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