xi, c, 6 Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianae 287 
Amboina, Hatiwe, Rel. Robins. 1773, September 15, 1915, on hillsides, 
altitude about 150 meters locally known as sapar. 
Borneo and the Philippines to northeastern Australia and Polynesia. 
ZIZYPHUS Linnaeus 
ZIZYPH US HORSFIELDII Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1856) 643 ? 
Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 1774, November 1, 1913, climbing 
over trees at an altitude of about 100 meters. 
The identification has been made with Miquel’s species from the published 
description alone, the specimens agreeing fairly well with the characters 
assigned to it by him. The specimen presents only immature fruits, 
so that the identification cannot be considered certain; Miquel’s species has 
been reported from Sumatra and Java. The Amboina specimen rather 
closely resembles the Philippine Zizyphus crebrivenosa C. B. Rob., but 
differs in its pubescent fruits and in its much less prominent transverse 
nerves which are reticulate-interrupted, not straight and continuous as 
in Robinson’s species. 
VENTILAGO Gaertner 
VENTILAGO FASC I C U L I FLOR A sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis junioribus floribusque leviter ciliato- 
hirsutis exceptis glaber; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis in 
siccitate pallidis, nitidis, usque ad 11 cm longis, acuminatis, dis- 
tanter glanduloso-denticulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5 ; floribus 
fasciculatis, axillaribus, pedicellatis, pedicellis calycibusque cilia- 
to-hirsutis, petalis latissime obovatis, late retusis, lobis patulis, 
rotundatis. 
A scandent shrub, the young branchlets, pedicels, and calyces 
more or less ciliate-hirsute, the hairs on the branchlets subap- 
pressed, those on the pedicels and calyces spreading. Branches 
very slender, terete, smooth, dark reddish-brown, the younger 
ones greenish. Leaves oblong-ovate, chartaceous, pale and 
shining when dry, 7 to 11 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, apex rather 
prominently acuminate, the acumen rather broad, apiculate, base 
subacute to somewhat rounded, somewhat inequilateral, margins 
distantly and minutely glandular-denticulate ; lateral nerves about 
5 on each side of the midrib, slender, curved-ascending, distinct, 
the reticulations close, fine; petioles 3 to 4 mm long, glabrous. 
Flowers yellowish-green, about 3 mm in diameter, all in axillary 
fascicles, 8 to 12 flowers in a fascicle, their rather prominently 
ciliate-hirsute pedicels 3 to 4 mm in length. Calyx-segments 
triangular-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, externally ciliate-hirsute 
with scattered hairs. Petals glabrous, broadly obovate, base 
narrowed, apex broadly retuse, the lobes spreading, rounded, the 
petals wider at the apex than long. Stamens glabrous, about 1.3 
mm long. Ovary glabrous; styles 2, short. Fruit not seen. 
