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one species is represented. There is some variation in the shape of the 
leaves, and in the pubescence, sometimes the leaves being quite glabrous, 
sometimes villous on the midrib beneath. 
Echites affinis R. & S. Syst. 4 (1819) 393 (E. caryophyllata Roth Nov. 
Sp. PI. (1821) 133, non Roxb.) would supply the oldest specific name for 
this species were Hooker f. correct in the reduction of Echites affinis to 
Ichnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC.“ Finding, however, that the description 
given by Roemer & Schultes did not agree at all well with specimens of 
De Candolle’s species, I asked Herr J. Martin, director of the Natural 
History Museum at Oldenburg, Germany, to examine Roth’s specimen, 
the type both of Echites affinis R. & S., and of E. caryophyllata Roth. 
This he has kindly done and informs me that Ichnocarpus ovatifolius 
A. DC. is certainly not the same as E. caryophyllata Roth {E. affinis 
R. & S.) in Roth’s herbarium. The sketch he has kindly supplied me 
shows Echites affinis to have broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic leaves with 
but two pairs of lateral nerves, the latter character entirely at variance 
with Ichnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC. 
Ichnocarpus frutescens R. Br., has been reported from the Philippines 
by several authors, but I have seen no material from the Archipelago 
that I would refer to that species. Ichnocarpus navesii Rolfe is typified 
by plate 97 of the third edition of Blanco’s “Flora de Filipinas;” in fact 
the species was based solely on the plate. The figure is manifestly a 
very poor representation of I. ovatifolius, and hence I. navesii Rolfe is 
reduced. 
Three species enumerated by F.-Villar’® under this genus are not species 
of Ichnocarpus, but 7. velutinus F.-Vill. is Aganosma velutina A. DC., 7. 
acuminatus F.-Vill. is Aganosma acuminata G. Don, and 7. macrocarpus 
F.-Vill. is a synonym of A. acuminata G. Don. 
MICRECHITES Miq. 
MICRECHITES SCHRIECKII (Huerck & Muell.-Arg.) Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 
23 (1885) 214; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 126. 
Ecdysanthera schrieckii Huerck & Muell.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 191. 
Trachelospermum sp. Merrill in Forestry Bureau (Philip.) Bull. 1 
(1903) 49. 
Trachelospermum philippinense Elm. Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 488. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 9135 (cotype of Trachelo- 
spermum philippinense Elm.), in flower. May, 1907: Province of Camarines 
Sur, Pasacao, Ahern 300, January, 1902, in fruit: Province of Albay, 
Cuming 910 (cotype of Ecdysanthera schrieckii Huerck & Muell.-Arg.). 
Negros, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. k'350 Everett, April, 1906, in fruit. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Dumanquilas Bay, For. Bur. 12360 Hut- 
chinson, previously determined as Ichnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC. Locally 
known in Camarines as bayacto. 
The cotypes of Trachelospermum philippinense Elm., and Micrechites 
schrieckii Rolfe, both in flower, are identical in all respects, hence the 
necessity of reducing the former species. 
Endemic. 
FI. Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) 670. 
Novis. App. (1880) 131. 
