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This species has previously been reported only from Hongkong and 
southern China, and most of the specimens cited above have here been 
determined as Cissus japonica Willd. In fact Gagnepain, conforming 
with this identification, recently cited Whitford 23, fruiting specimen only, 
under Willdenow’s species. An examination of the material in all stages, 
however, shows that the petals are very prominently corniculate, and 
the anthers are not longer than broad, so that the material cannot be 
referred to Cissus japonica. In all essential characters the Philippine 
specimens appear to agree with Cissus comiculata Planch., and with a 
single Hongkong specimen, Hongkong Bot. Gard. 1982, April 22, 1904, in 
the herbarium of the Bureau of Science. This latter specimen has some- 
what narrower, differently shaped, and fewer-nerved leaflets than has the 
Philippine material, and comparison of a full series of specimens may show 
sufficiently constant characters to warrant the later separation of the 
Philippine plant as a distinct species. At any rate our material cited 
above represents a form as distinct from Cissus japonica Willd., as is 
the Hongkong (typical) Cissus comiculata Planch. 
COLUMELLA TEN U I FOLIA (Heyne) comb. nov. 
Cissus tenuifolia Heyne in Wall. Cat. (1831) no. 6022; Planch, in 
DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1887) 563. 
Vitis tenuifolia W. & A. Prodr. (1834) 129. 
Cayratia tenuifolia Gagnep. in Not. Syst. 1 (1911) 348. 
Batanes Islands, Batan, Bur. Sci. 3702 Fenix, June, 1907. Luzon, 
Province of Tayabas, Casiguran, Bur. Sci. 3110 Mearns. Basilan, Hallier 
s. n., January, 1904. 
The specimens cited above previously have been referred to Cissus 
japonica Willd., but following Gagnepain’s recent arrangement of the 
species of Cayratia they can hardly represent Willdenow’s species, as the 
anthers are orbicular or suborbicular. The Philippine specimens cited 
above certainly represent the same species as Callery 93, and Bodinier 
2290, in our herbarium, both cited by Gagnepain under Cayratia tenuifolia 
Gagnep. 
India to southern China and Formosa, southward to Indo-China and the 
Andaman Islands. 
I have seen no Philippine material that I consider to be referable to 
Cayratia japonica (Willd.) Gagnep. In the present paper most of the 
specimens previously so named are referred to Columella comiculata 
(Benth.) Merr., and the remaining material to the present species. 
COLUMELLA TRI FOLIA (Linn.) comb. nov. 
Vitis trifolia Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 293. 
Cissus carnosa Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 31. 
Cissus trifolia K. Sch. FI. Kaiser Wilhelmsl. (1889) 71. 
Cayratia carnosa Gagnep. in Not. Syst. 1 (1911) 347. 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philippines, being 
found throughout the Archipelago at low altitudes in the settled areas. 
India to China and southward to tropical Australia. 
COLUMELLA PEDATA Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 85. 
Cissus pedata Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 31. 
Cayratia pedata Juss. in Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. 4 (1823) 136. 
