XIV. 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 381 
and rather coarsely toothed, at least in the upper part, below 
often entire or nearly so, nerves prominent, arched, anastomosing, 
the primary ones above the basal pair 3 or 4 on each side of 
the midrib. Staminate cymes axillary, sessile, about 1.5 cm in 
diameter, the flowers numerous, crowded, the subtending brac- 
teoles oblong-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, pubescent; pedicels 
pubescent, about 1.5 mm long. Perianth segments of the stami- 
nate flowers 5, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 2 mm long, somewhat 
ciliate, some of them distinctly comiculate or keeled-corniculate 
at the apex. 
Samar, Yabong, Bur. Sci. 17468 Ramos, March 16, 1914, in 
damp forests near small streams at low altitudes. 
The alliance of this is manifestly with Elatostematoides manil- 
lense C. B. Rob., from which it is especially distinguished by 
its prominently pilose midrib, nerves, and reticulations on the 
lower surface of the leaves. 
BOEHMERIA Jacquin 
BOEHMERIA ZOLLINGERIANA Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. IV 1 (1854) 
201, DC. Prodr. 16 ‘ (1869) 208. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Nagapatan, Bur. Sci. 
33129 Ramos, August, 1918; Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27478 Ramos, 
March, 1917 : Pangasinan Province, Umingan, Bur. Sci. 18322 
Otanes, May, 1914, in ravines and on open slopes, ascending to 
an altitude of 550 meters. 
Weddell’s species was based on a Javan specimen. It has 
been also recorded from Formosa by C. H. Wright,’ who, how- 
ever, identified the Formosan material from the description alone. 
The Philippine specimens agree closely with our rather full 
series of Formosan ones. 
ARISTOLOCHIACEAE 
ARISTOLOCHIA Tournefort 
ARISTOLOCHIA MEM BRAN ACEA sp. nov. § Diplolohus. 
Frutex parvus, ut videtur erectus, ramulis 1 ad 2 mm dia- 
metro ; foliis membranaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 8 ad 
15 cm longis, acuminatis, basi cordatis, lobis rotundatis, utrinque 
ad costa nervisque leviter pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 8 ad 
10, tenuibus; inflorescentiis axillaribus, paucifloris; floribus cir- 
citer 3 cm longis, leviter pubescentibus; capsulis obovoideis, 1 
cm longis, glabris. 
’“Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1899) 488. 
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