PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 
353 
Not previously reported from the Philippines: Siam, Burma, and Timor. 
The specimen collected by Doctor Copeland has staminate flowers, and 
while it agrees with the description of Alsomitra sarcophylla Roem., very 
closely, still with the lack of pistillate flowers and fruits the identity of the 
Philippine form with the above species can not be considered to be certain. 
ALSOMITRA I NTEGRI FOLIOLA (Cogn.) Hayata in Journ. Col. Sci. Tokyo 
30‘ (1911) 121. 
Gynostevima integrifoliolmn Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 916. 
Alsomitra clavigera F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 98 (probably), non 
Hook. f. 
Gynostemma elongatum Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 267. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Bued River, Merrill ^312, with staminate 
flowers; Sablan, Bur. Sci. 12675 Fenix, with staminate flowers, Phil. PI. 
4.53 Fenix, with mature fruits: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso and Montalban, 
For. Bur. 1897, 3409 Ahern’s collector, with staminate flowers: Province 
of Bataan, Ehner 6694, Merrill 1527, For. Bur. 2425 Meyer, all with 
staminate flowers. For. Bur. 5474 Curran (type of Gynostemma elongatum 
Merr.), with pistillate flowers: Province of Laguna, Calauan, Bur. Sci. 
12460 McGregor, with staminate flowers: Province of Tayabas, Cuming 
767 (cotype of Gynostemma integrifoliolum Cogn.), with staminate flowers. 
I concur with Hayata in the transfer of Gynostemma integrifoliolum Cogn. 
to Alsomitra, for the mature fruits of Gynostemma elongatum Merr., which 
is certainly conspecific with G. integrifoliolum Cogn., are typical of Alsomi- 
tra, not of Gynostemma. 
Cogniaux, as noted by Hayata, has described the fruits of Gynostemma 
integrifoliolum as brown, glabrous or slightly puberulent, 7 to 8 mm thick. 
On several of our specimens are what I had previously taken to represent 
immature fruits of Cogniaux’s species. These organs are ovoid or sub- 
globose, 1 cm long or less, and closely simulate very immature fruits. An 
examination of them, however, shows that they are globose or ovoid galls, 
crowned by the calyx, and usually also the stamens of the pistillate flowers ; 
they usually contain numerous larvae. It is strongly suspected that Cog- 
niaux saw similar galls on one of Cuming’s specimens examined by him, 
and mistook them for immature fruits. 
Alsomitra integrifoliola Hayata is closely allied to A. clavigera Hook, f., 
but has smaller fruits, in our specimens 4 to 5 cm long and about 1 cm in 
diameter, and the seeds are quite glabrous, not at all muricate. 
A species known only from Luzon and Formosa. 
GOODENOVIACEAE. 
SCAEVOLA L. 
SCAEVOLA FRUTESCENS (Mill.) Krause in Engl. Pflanzenreich 54 
(1912) 125. 
Lobelia frutescens Mill. Card. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) No. 1, p. p. 
Whether or not Doctor Krause is correct in his interpretation of Lobelia 
frutescens Mill., it is probably best to follow him and accept the above 
specific name for this common and widely distributed species. Miller’s 
Lobelia frutescens was a mixture, based on two references, FI. zeyl. 313, 
which is the same as Scaevola koenigii Vahl’^ and Lobelia frutescens por- 
Trimen FI. Ceyl. 3 (1895) 54. 
