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Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3474-4 (type), 34773 
Ramos & Pascasio, June 20, 1919, along streams in forests at 
low altitudes. 
This characteristic species is as closely allied to Medinilla fur- 
furacea Merr. as to any other described form, but differs radically 
in its sessile, entirely differently shaped leaves, and different 
inflorescences. 
ARALIACEAE 
ANOMPANAX Harms 
ANOMPANAX PH I LI PPI N ENSIS Harms in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 19 
(1904) 15. 
Pentapanax sp. Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. Manila (1892) 89. 
The type of this species is Warburg 14470, from Davao, Min- 
danao, and it is by no means certain that the species is really 
different from the type of the genus, Anompanax celebicus Harms. 
Regarding the latter, I examined Koorders’s Celebes material in 
the Buitenzorg herbarium in January, 1914, noting that the Cel- 
ebes material looks exactly like the Philippine specimens and 
that the two species were either identical or very closely allied. 
Anompanax philippinensis is now known from a number of local- 
ities in the central and southern Philippines, as follows : Samar, 
Bur. Sci. 1 7454 Ramos. Negros, For. Bur. 17355 Curran, 7269, 
12329 Everett, Merrill 7034-. Panay, Vidal 2930 in Herb. Kew., 
Yoder, Bur. Sci. 30798 Ramos & Edaho, 32354- McGregor. Min- 
danao, Merrill 8293, Clemens 1058, For. Bur. 4-686 M earns & 
Hutchinson. Basilan, For. Bur. 18936 Miranda. A species 
widely scattered on damp forested slopes at medium altitudes. 
ANOMPANAX CUMINGIANUS (Presl) comb. nov. 
Paratropia cumingiana Presl Epim. (1851) 250; Walp. Ann. 2 (1852) 
725. 
Panax cumingiana Rolfe in Joum. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 310. 
Polyscias cumingiana F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 102. 
Nothopanax cumingii Seem, in Journ. Bot. 4 (1866) 295. 
Mindoro, Cuming 1553. 
Seemann, 1. c., records this species also from Borneo, but I 
have seen no material representing it other than Cuming’s col- 
lection, the type of the species. My specimen is incomplete, but 
the ovary is always 2-celled and, although the calyx is truncate, 
not at all toothed or lobed, I feel confident that Anompanax is 
its correct generic position. It certainly cannot properly be 
placed in any of the other genera to which it has been assigned 
by various botanists. 
