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tliese I believe are soareely sullicient to warrant the distinguisliing of the Pliilippiiie 
plant as a distinct species. GauUheria, horneensis Stapf, also originally described 
from Mount Kinabalu specimens, and later reported from the Philippines by 
Rendle,™ was also found near Pauai (4700 Merrill). 
SOPUBIA llamilt. 
Sopubia trifida Haniilt. in D. Don Prodr. FI. Nepaul. (LS02) S8; Plook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 302; Bentli. in DC. Prodr, 10 (184(1) .322; Forbes & 
Hemsl. Journ. Linn. iSoc. Pot. 26 (1800) 202. 
Luzon, Province of Bengiiet, Baguio (0518 Elmer) June, 1004. (On grassy 
hillsides in thin pine forests at an altitude of about 1,500 ni. Flowers yellowish, 
the throat pink or purplish. 
No representative of the genus has previously been reported from the Philip- 
pines, the above species extending from southern China to British India and 
Ceylon. 
VANDELLIA Linn. 
Vandellia grandiflora Merrill sp. nov. 
All erect or spreading, simple or slightly branched, more or less hirsute 
herb 10 cm. high or less, the calyx teeth 5, equal, less than half as long 
as the calyx tube, the corolla about 13 mm. long. Branches, leaves, 
petioles, pedicels, and caltKes sparingly liirsute with scattered white hairs. 
Leaves opposite, ovate to olilong-ovate, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, short petioled, 
acute, the base obtuse, the margins usually coarsely serrate. Flowers 
solitary, pediceled, axillaiw, the pedicels 1.5 to 3 cm. long. Calyx in 
anthesis oblong, 6 mm. long, not keeled or winged, reticulate, equally 
5-toothed, the teeth lanceolate, acuminate, about 3.5 mm. long. Corolla 
pale blue or purplish, the tube cylindrical, enlarged aliove, upper lip 
l)road, about 4 mm. long, cleft at the apex, the lov^er lip 6 to T mm. long, 
3-lobed, the middle lobe the largest. Stamens 4, the two posterior 
included, the two anterior longer and prominently appendaged near the 
liase of the filaments. Ovary and style glabrous. Fruiting calyx about 
8 mm. long, oblong, the teeth scarcely longer than in anthesis. Capsule 
oblong, glabrous, tipped by the style, equaling or slightly shorter than the 
calyx. Seeds many, flattened, ovate, about 0.5 mm. in diameter. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4572 Merrill) November 4, 1905: 
Province of Benguet, Baguio to Ambuklao (4359 Merrill) October 24, 1905; 
Suyoc to Pauai (4735 Merrill) November 7, 1905. On dry open grassy slopes in 
thin ])ine forests 1,600 to 2,000 m. 
BIGNONIACILE. 
NYCTICALOS Teysm. et Binn. 
Nycticalos cuspidatum (Blume) Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3 (1807) 
249, t. 8. f. B. Teeoma cusimlaia Blume, Rumphia 4 (1848) 35. 
1’alawan, Puerto Princesa {2i>4 Bermejos) December, 1905. In forests; flowers 
yellow. Celebes and the Moluccas. , 
An undetennined species of this genus lias previously been reported from Luzon 
==Jon.rn. Bol. (1890) 34,355. 
