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MERRILL AND ROLFE. 
Polygonum praeterm issum Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 47; Forbes & 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1891) 347. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Loher 1/598; District of Lepanto, Mount Data, 
Merrill 4521. 
Eastern India and Ceylon to central China, also in Tasmania; new to the 
Philippines. 
Polygonum Posumbu Haniilt. in D. Don Prodr. FI. Nepal. (1823) 71; 
Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1891) 346. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Merrill 1/805 ; Elmer 5156 ; Williams 11/50. 
Eastern Himalayan region to China, Japan, Formosa and Java; new to the 
Philippines. 
R ANUN CULACE2E. 
CLEMATIS Linn. 
Clematis Meyeniana Walp. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 
297; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1886) 5; Hook. f. in Curtiss’ 
Bot. Mag. III. 59 (1903) pi. 1891. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Loher: Suyoc to Pauai, Merrill 1/111, November, 
1906, alt. 2,000 m. 
A species extending from southern China to the Biu Kiu Islands and Formosa, 
not previously reported from the Philippines. 
NARAVELIA DC. 
Naravelia Loheri Merrill & Bolfe sp. nov. 
Scandens; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, integris, membranaeeis, acumi- 
natis, basi 5-nerviis; floribus solitariis, terminalibus, longe pedunculatis ; 
sepalis 4, ovatis; petalis circiter 12, linear) -spatulatis, circiter 2 cm longis, 
2 mm latis; ovario villosissimo ; achenis lanceolatis, plus minus hirsutis, 
2 cm longis, ecaudatis. 
Scandent, the steins slender, reddish or straw colored, striate, sparingly 
pilose, becoming nearly glabrous, the young shoots rather densely fer- 
ruginous-pubescent. Leaves opposite, the petiole about 2 cm long, 
slightly pilose or pubescent; leaflets 2, ovate or oblong-ovate, membran- 
ous, glabrous or nearly so, entire or rarely with one or two large or 
small teeth, base rounded or acute, apex acuminate and tipped with a 
small mucro, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide; nerves 5, basal, promi- 
nent, ascending, the reticulations lax, rather prominent; petiolules 
1 cm long or less, usually densely pubescent, the tendril elongated, 
slender, glabrous, 3-partite at the apex. Flowers few, solitary, at the 
apices of the lateral branches, the peduncles 4 cm long or more, somewhat 
pubescent, elongated in fruit. Sepals 4, 8 to 9 mm long, ovate, some- 
what pubescent, deciduous. Petals about 12, linear-spatulate, glabrous, 
2 cm long, or less, 2 mm wide above. Stamens about 3 mm long. 
Carpels densely hirsute. Achenes 10 to 15, about 2 cm long, narrowly 
lanceolate, appressed-hirsute but not densely so, gradually narrowed above 
to a slender beak, not tailed. 
