89 
Meyer) December. In tliickets below 100 m., wislely distributed in the Philip- 
pines. British India and Malaya. T., Ayo. 
2. T. sp. ( ?) 
( 7004 i?Iiner) November; (71 Barnes) November. Specimens with fruit only. 
2. CISSUS Linn. 
1. C. adnata (Roxb.) Planch. 1. c. 404. 
(512 Mliitford) July; (2519 Merrill) June. In thickets below 100 m. British 
India to southern China and Malaya. 
2. C. japonica Willd.; Planch. 1. e. 501. 
(0672 Elmer) November; (2170 JMeyer) December; (23 Whiiford) April; 
(2535 Merrill) Jime. In thickets below 100 m. Japan to C'hina, Java, New 
Caledonia, and Australia. T., Calit-calit. 
3. C. geniculata Blume, Planch. 1. c. 572. 
(6700 Elmer) November; (1786 Borden) August; (2531 ]\lerrill) June. In 
thickets below 100 m. Cochin China and Malaya. 
4. C. rostrata (Miq. ) Korth.; Planch. 1. c. 500. 
(0009 Elmer) November; (1927, 2122 Borden) October, November; (3793 
Merrill) January; (1056 Whitford) January; (2193 Meyer) December. In 
thickets below 100 m. Java and New Guinea. 
5. C. repens (Lam.) Planch. 1. c. 504. 
(3151 Merrill) October; (1785, 1795 Borden) August, September; (6708, 6751 
Elmer) November. In thickets below 100 m., widely distributed in the Phili])- 
pines. British India, Malaya, and Australia. 
0. C. sp. ( ?) 
(2495 Borden, 2510 Meyer) January. In thickets at 600 m., staminate flowers 
only. T., Latgitic. 
3. LEEA Linn. 
1. L. manillensis Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1 : 314. 
(14 Whiiford,) April; (2552, 3163 Merrill) June, October; (2187 Meyer) De- 
cember; (721 Borden ) May. Along the river, and in thickets below 200 m., the 
whole inflorescence bright red, previously identified by the author and distributed 
as L. rnlira Blume. Endemic. Galiantang, 'Taliantang. 
2. L. sambucina Willd.; King, Mat. FI. (Malay. Benin. 700. 1896. 
(3883 Merrill) August; (0051 Elmer) November. In forests at about 1,000 m. 
British India and Malaya. 
3. L. philippinensis Merrill, sp. nov. 
A shrub or small tree, sometimes 10 m. high, with glabrous pinnate leaves, 
lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, long acuminate leaflets, the flowers greenish white, 
yellowish, or sometimes tinged with pink. Branches light brown, lenticellate, 
not at all pubescent, terete. Leaves 20 to 50 cm. long, simply pinnate, the leaflets 
5 to 13; rhachis glabrous, terete, the petiole channeled above; leaflets 8 to 
20 cm. long, 2 to 0 cm. wide, glabrous, dull, s\ibcoriaceous, the base acute, the 
apex long acuminate, the acumen blunt, the margins rather coarsely erenate- 
dentate; nerves 9 to 11 on each side of the midrib, usually not prominent; 
petiolules 1 cm. long, that of the terminal leaflet longer. Cymes up to 10 cm. long 
on stout peduncles 6 cm. long or less, the branches and especially the branchlets 
ferruginous pubescent or puberulent, often 20 cm. across, but frequently much 
smaller. Caljcs green, glabrous, or when young puberulent, the buds obovoid, 
the teeth broad, short, aciite. Petals oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous, about 4 mm. 
long, yellowish or greenish white, sometimes slightly jrink. Staminal tube notched, 
about 5 mm. long. Fruits brown, glabrous, depressed globose, about 1.5 cm. 
thick, 1 cm. long,' wrinkled when dry; seeds three, subglobose, about 6 mm. in 
diameter, glabrous, reticulate. 
