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MERRILL. 
Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 321/8 Ahern’s collector, August, 1905: Province of 
Bataan, Lamao, For. Bur. 7 350 Curran, June, 1907. Bohol, Bur. Sci. 1230 Mc- 
Gregor, May, 1906. 
There is no doubt but that Bauhinia monandra Kurz is the oldest valid name 
for this widely distributed species, and it is accordingly here adopted. Material 
supplied me by Mr. C'raib of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, as representing 
Kurz’s species is unquestionably the same as our Philippine specimens. In order 
to verify this I wrote to Dr. Prain, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Ivew, who has kindly examined all the material in the Kew herbarium, and 
who informs me that Bauhinia krugii, and B. Icappleri are unquestionably iden- 
tical with B. monandra of Kurz, the reductions being also verified by Mr. W. B. 
Hemsley, and Mr. X. E. Brown. My reduction of Phanera maculata Rich., is 
based on a specimen so named received from Buitenzorg, taken from a tree in 
the botanic garden so labelled, and said to have been received from Bourbon 
under that name. I suspected that it might be the same as B. maculata Tenore, 
but this is not the case, as Tenore’s description does not at all apply to the 
present species, although Dr. R. Pampanini of Florence, who kindly supplied 
me with a copy of the original description, informs me that Tenore’s type does 
not appear to be extant. The species is now widely distributed in the tropics 
of the World, and is probably a native of tropical America; it is certainly an 
introduced species in the Philippines. 
CYNOMETRA Linn. 
Cynometra luzoniensis sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 15 m alia; foliis unifoliolatis, foliolis eoriaceis 
vel subcoriaceis, in sicco brunneis, nitidis, oblongis, usque ad 12 cm longis, 
reticulatis, apice acute acuminatis, basi late rotunclatis vel subeordatis; 
fructibus axillaribus, racemosi s, compressis, brunneis, circiter 2 cm longis, 
verrucoso-lentieellatis, obtusis. 
A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Branches light-brown, terete, lenti- 
eellate. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate, the petiole stout, rugose, 3 to -1 
mm long, the single leaflet sessile, oblong, coriaceous or subcoriacgous, 
brown and shining when dry, 5 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, the apex 
sharply acuminate, the base rather broad, rounded or slightly cordate; 
primary nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, the 
secondary ones and reticulations nearly as distinct, the latter netted, 
rather close, distinct on both surfaces. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence 
of axillary, solitary racemes, the rachis about 1 cm long, marked by 
numerous pedicel-scars, the pedicels about 8 mm in length. Fruits 
(immature) compressed, inequilateral, the dorsal suture nearly straight, 
the ventral semicircular, about 2 cm long, 11 to 13 mm wide, brown, 
lenticellate-verrucose, apex and base rounded. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Laguimanoc, Merrill 212S, April. 1903. 
A species closely allied to Cynometra simplicifolia Harms, but with larger 
much more sharply acuminate leaves which are broad and rounded or subcordate 
at the base and with quite different, much more prominent venation and retic- 
ulation. The inflorescence of C. simplicifolia is fasciculate and the fruits are 
usually somewhat falcate, the dorsal suture being frequently incurved. 
