PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 
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the lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute or somewhat obtuse, about 4 
mm long. Stamens 5, equal; anthers 2 mm long. Style 5 mm 
long. Berry globose, fleshy, at first white, becoming orange or 
red when mature, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, containing but 2, rarely 
3 seeds, the seeds obovate, somewhat compressed, about 5 mm 
long, pale, minutely pitted-rugose. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming 873 (type) : Province of Cagayan, 
Bur. Sci. 7h82 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 7U9h- Min- 
doro, Alag River, Merrill 6157; South of Lake Naujan, For. Bur. 6895 
Merritt. Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Merrill 7307, Weher 1207: Dis- 
trict of Davao, Copeland 329: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens k28, s. n. 
This species is well characterized by its epiphytic habit, its pale-gray, 
more or less thickened stems, its leaves in very unequal pairs, its solitary 
or fascicled, pedicelled, 5-merous flowers with truncate calyces, and its 2- 
or 3-seeded berries. It has been determined at times as Solanum blumei 
Nees, and at other times as S. parasiticum Blume. It is, from its habit, 
a very different plant from Solanum blumei Nees, and is at once dis- 
tinguished from S. parasiticum Bl. by its geminate, not solitary leaves. 
SOLANUM PHILIPPINENSE sp. nov. 
Herba annua, erecta, glabra, dichotoma, inermis, ramis tere- 
tibus, in siccitate plus minusve sulcatis; foliis geminis, membra- 
naceis, acuminatis, basi decurrento-acuminatis, ovatis vel oblong- 
ovatis, altero subdimidio minore; pedunculis filiformibus, uni- 
floris, axillaribus, solitariis geminis ternisve; calycis truncatis, 
integerrimis. 
An annual, erect, glabrous, dichotomously branched herb 1 m 
high or less, the branches terete, more or less sulcate when dry. 
Leaves membranaceous, entire, in pairs at each node, the smaller 
of each pair half as large as the other or smaller, of the same 
shape, acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, the larger ones 7 to 
12 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, their petioles up to 2 cm in length, 
the smaller ones of each pair 2 to 5 cm long, short-petioled. 
Pedicels axillary, slender, solitary, in pairs, or in threes, 1.5 to 3 
cm long, somewhat thickened upward, 1-flowered. Flowers pale- 
yellowish. Calyx cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, 3 mm in diame- 
ter, truncate, not at all toothed. Corolla 6 to 7 mm long, the lobes 
ovate, 2 to 3 mm long, acute or somewhat obtuse. Stamens 
equal; anthers broadly ovoid, about 1.2 mm long. Fruit globose, 
fleshy, red when mature, about 7 mm in diameter. Seeds num- 
erous, pale, somewhat translucent, orbicular-elliptic, flattened, 
smooth, about 1.2 mm long. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas), Elmer 
6561, June, 1904, Williams 1275 (type) July 1, 1904, Bur. Sci. 54.06 Ramos, 
December, 1908, Merrill 8003, May, 1911. Mindanao, Sax River Mountains 
back of San Ramon, Merrill 8164, November, 1911. 
