416 The Philippine Journal of Science isis 
Samar, Catubig River at Pinipisakan, Bur. Sci. 24557 Ramos, 
March 21, 1916, in damp forests near the river at low altitudes, 
with the Visayan name malaampipi, distributed as an uniden- 
tified representative of the Menispermaceae. 
The type of the genus Villaresia is a tropical American plant, 
and after a critical study of the two Philippine forms I am in 
entire agreement with Bentham and with Valeton in reducing 
to it the genus Chariessa Miquel, which was based on Pleurope- 
talon Blume (non Pleuropetalum Hook.), the type of which was 
a Javan specimen. Engler maintains Chariessa as a genus dis- 
tinct from Villaresia, chiefly on the basis that the petals of the 
latter are imbricate and those of the latter are valvate. Blume 
described the petals of the Javan foi'm as imbricate, while in 
Villaresia philippinensis the petals are distinctly although not 
prominently imbricate throughout. There appears to be no other 
character by which the two genera can be distinguished. The 
genus Villaresia has about ten known species in tropical America, 
one in tropical Africa, one in Java, two in Australia, one in 
Polynesia, and two in the Philippines. 
MIQUELIA Meissner 
MIQUELIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis junioribus hirsutis; folds membra- 
naceis, ovatis, 7 ad 11 cm longis, basi late rotundatis et plus 
minusve cordatis, apice acuminatis, margins integris vel repan- 
dis; inflorescentiis 2 axillaribus, pedunculatis, floribus umbella- 
tim dispositis; fructibus immaturis oblongo-ellipsoideis, 1 ad 1.3 
cm longis, longe stipitatis. 
A scandent shrub, the young branchlets hirsute. Leaves mem- 
branaceous, ovate, olivaceous, 7 to 11 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, 
base broadly rounded and usually shallowly cordate, apex some- 
what acuminate, margins entire or somewhat repand; lateral 
nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, the 
basal ones scarcely distinguishable from the others, reticulations 
lax; petioles pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous, 3 
to 7 cm long. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, their peduncles 
about 3 cm long, each bearing usually about 7 umbellately ar- 
ranged flowers, their pedicels 5 mm long, each subtended by a 
lanceolate, acuminate, sparingly hirsute bracteole, 1 to 1.5 mm 
long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm long. Fruits (immature) 
slightly pubescent, oblong-ellipsoid, 1 to 1.3 cm long, narrowed 
below^into a pseudostalk as long as the fruit proper, 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Burgos, Bur. Sci. S28S5 Ramos, 
August 6, 1918, in rocky forests at low altitudes. 
