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Amboina, Paso, Rel. Robins. 1818, October 31, 1913, in thickets near the 
beach. 
A species well characterized by its axillary fascicled flowers, the fascicles 
constantly solitary, never arranged in racemes as in most of the other 
species of the genus. 
VITACEAE 
LEEA Royen 
LEEA sp. 
Amboina, Hitoe lama, Mahija, and Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 1879, 20J+1+, 
August and November, 1913, on forested limestone hills, altitude 150 to 
225 meters, locally known as tatahel ayer and tatahel ayoo. 
A robust species, 6 to 8 m high, with large compound leaves and ample 
leaflets, the larger leaflets up to 30 cm in length. It closely resembles the 
Philippine Leea negrosensis Elm., but further identification of the specimens 
is not possible except by comparison with authentically named specimens, 
as they are in fruit only. 
TILIACEAE 
GREWIA Linnaeus 
GREWIA ACUMINATA Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 4 (1805) 91, t. 1+8, f. 2. 
Grewia pedicellata Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 43, nomen nudum, FI. 
Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 585. 
Greivia umbellata Roxb. 1. cc. 42, 591. 
Amboina, Eri, Rel. Robins. 1807, September 22, 1913, in thickets near 
the strand. 
This is a topotype of Grewia pedicellata Roxb., and agrees with the 
short original description of that species. It also agrees with the original 
description and figure of the older Greivia acuminata Juss., to which 
Hochreutiner has reduced Greivia umbellata Roxb. It is to be noted, 
however, that King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng 60 " (1891) 109, retains Grewia 
umbellata Roxb. as a distinct species, limiting it to the Malay Peninsula 
(it was originally described from Sumatran material), and does not con- 
sider it to be identical with the Amboinese Grewia pedicellata Roxb. Abund- 
ant material available here from various pai'ts of the Malay Archipelago 
and the Philippines leads me to suspect that Grewia acuminata, G. pedi- 
cellata Roxb., and G. umbellata Roxb. are all forms of the same species. 
GREWIA CERAMENSIS Boerl. ex Hochr. PI. Bogor. Exsicc. (1904) 30. 
Amboina, Wae, Rel. Robins. 1805, in light forests, altitude about 20 
meters; locally known as sokolat utan, that is, wild chocolate. 
Previously known only from Ceram, and from specimens cultivated in 
the botanic garden at Buitenzorg, Java. 
TRICHOSPERMUM Blume 
TRICHOSPERMUM QUADRIVALVE sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis petiolisque dense ferrugineo stellato- 
pubescentibus ; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 24 
cm longis, supra parce, subtus densissime pallide stellato-pubes- 
centibus, acuminatis, basi profunde cordatis, aequilateralibus vel 
