IX, C, 5 
Merrill: Sertulum Bontocense, II 
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ments lanceolate, long and slenderly acuminate, somewhat 
laciniate, 5 to 6 mm long. Petals white, orbicular, rounded, 6 
mm in diameter, the claw short, about 1 mm long. Filaments 
3.5 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. Carpels glabrous, inequilat- 
erally and narrowly ovoid, the styles 6 mm long. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Bontoc, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 2683, February 13, 
1913, in forests, altitude about 1,700 meters. 
Not closely allied to any known Philippine species, well characterized 
by its obscurely and shallowly lobed, suborbicular, rounded, cordate leaves, 
and by its short, few-flowered racemose inflorescence. It is probably as 
closely allied to the Malayan Rubus alceaefolius Poir. as to any other 
species. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
SOPH ORA Linnaeus 
SOPHORA PHILIPPINENS1S sp. nov. § Eusophora. 
Frutex erectus 0.5 ad 2 m altus, pubescens; foliis 10 ad 20 
cm longis, foliolis 17 ad 23, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongis, mucro- 
natis, 1.5 ad 4 cm longis; racemis solitariis, subterminalibus, 8 
ad 20 cm longis, multifloris ; floribus circiter 12 mm longis, vexilla 
violacea, anguste obovata ; staminibus basi plus minusve connatis. 
An erect, pubescent shrub 0.5 to 2 m high, the older branches 
terete, glabrous, dark-colored, the younger ones densely ferru- 
ginous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, 10 to 20 cm long, pubescent, 
the rachis densely so; leaflets 17 to 23, opposite, oblong-elliptic 
to oblong, 1.5 to 4 cm long, 6 to 10 mm wide, narrowed below 
to the acute or subacute base and above to the slenderly 
mucronate apex, both surfaces prominently pubescent ; the lateral 
nerves obsolete or very obscure ; stipules linear, about 7 mm long. 
Racemes terminal or opposed to the terminal leaf, solitary, erect, 
pubescent, 8 to 20 cm long, many-flowered; pedicels pubescent 
3 to 4 mm long; bracteoles linear, pubescent, about 6 mm long. 
Calyx campanulate, about 8 mm long, 6 mm in diameter at the 
mouth, the teeth broad, base narrowed, pubescent externally. 
Standard violet, curved, narrowly oblong-obovate, 5 mm wide, 12 
mm long, apex rounded or somewhat retuse, glabrous or nearly 
so; wing and keel petals similar, their claws slender, 4 mm long, 
their laminas oblong, rounded, about 8 mm long, 3 mm wide, 
white. Stamens 10, the vexillary one free, the others more or 
less united near the base for the lower 1 to 3 mm, about 10 mm 
long; anthers ellipsoid, 1 mm long. Ovary cylindric, densely 
villous, about 6 mm long, 1.8 mm in diameter, its stipe 1.5 mm 
long; ovules about 10; style, somewhat tapering upward, slanted 
