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MERRILL. 
This species is common along the trail through the mossy forest on 
Mount Tonglon, above an altitude of 1,700 m; in Mindanao it grows along 
small streams in very damp shaded ravines at an altitude of about 800 m. 
It is allied to Solatium blumei Nees, and some of the specimens cited above 
have been determined as that species, and the duplicates so distributed. 
Among other characters it differs in its habit, being an erect, dichotomously 
branched herb, not a suffrutescent or woody plant, with longer petioles 
than in Nees’ species. It is not certain that the plant described as Solatium 
blumei by Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74’’ (1905), Extra Number 330, 
is the same as <S. blumei Nees, as Nees describes the calyx as entire and 
truncate, while Prain describes it as subtruncate, with 5 subulate and 5 
intervening minute teeth. 
BIGNONIACEAE. 
RADERMACHERA Hassk. 
RADERMACHERA WHITFORDII sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra, novellis resinosis; foliis pinnatis, usque 
ad 35 era longis, foliolis 5 vel 7, subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 
acuminatis, basi acutis, 11 ad 15 cm longis; paniculis quam folia 
longioribus, diffusis, floribus 2.5 cm longis. 
A small tree, glabrous throughout, the young parts more or 
less resinous. Ultimate branches somewhat compressed, with 
few, large, scattered lenticels. Leaves simply pinnate, 25 to 35 
cm long, the basal part of the petiole more or less lenticellate. 
Leaflets 5 to 7, oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, subequally narrowed 
at both ends, the base acute, apex acuminate, 11 to 15 cm long, 
3.5 to 6 cm wide ; lateral nerves spreading, about 12 on each side, 
the reticulations lax; petiolules of the lower leaflets 1.5 to 2 cm 
long, of the upper ones half as long or shorter. Panicles longer 
than the leaves, up to 40 cm in length, rather lax, open, the 
branches distant, spreading, the lower ones up to 15 cm long. 
Flowers rather few, 2.5 cm long, the corolla slightly pubescent 
externally in the upper part. Calyx not ribbed. Immature 
follicles 25 cm long, 4 mm wide, somewhat compressed. 
Mindanao, District of Cotabato, Lebak, For. Bur. 11817 Whitford, March 
7, 1912, in dry river bottoms at low altitudes. 
Well characterized by its simply pinnate leaves; among .the Philippine 
species most closely allied to Radermachera elliptica Merr., but with very 
different leaves and inflorescence, and smaller flowers. 
CUCURBITACEAE. 
ALSOMITRA Roem. 
ALSOMITRA SARCOPHYLLA (Wall.) Roem. Syn. 2 (1846) 118; Cogn. 
in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 929. 
Zanonia sarcophylla Wall. Cat. (1831) no. 3724, nomen, PI. As. Rar. 
2 (1831) 28, t. 133. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Copeland 255, January, 1904. 
