NOTES ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY. 
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appears to be the same as Cardamine debilis Banks & Solander, and this may 
not improbably have been Forster’s typical Sisymbrium heterophyllum, but the 
Mindanao form differs from the Tasmanian ( Gunn ^66) in the size of the 
flowers and otherwise. It does not appear where Forster’s var. a was met with, 
but the probability is that it was in New Zealand. The material is hardly 
sufficient to warrant the establishment of a new species, even if the plant 
discovered on Mount Malindang by Mearns & Hutchinson be identical with 
Forster’s single gathering. (J. R. D.) 
CAPPARIDACEiE. 
CAPPARIS Linn. 
Capparis Cumingii Merrill & Rolfe sp. nov. 
Seandens, glabra ; spinis millis vel mimitis ; foliis oblongis, subcoriaceis, 
usque ad 11 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice breviter et late acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque 7 vel 8 ; paniculis termiualibus, floribus ad apices ramu- 
lorum subumbellatis dispositis; baccis globosis. 
Scandent, glabrous throughout. Branches terete, at least the upper 
portions spineless, the panicle-branches sometimes subtended by two 
small spines. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 9 to 11 cm long, 3 to 5 cm 
wide, the base rounded, the apex short, broadly acuminate ; nerves 7 or 8 
on each side of the midrib; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long. Inflorescence a 
terminal panicle about 20 cm long, the primary branches stout, spread- 
ing, the lower ones 5 to 7 cm long, the flowers subumbellately disposed 
at the ends of the branches, 3 to 10 flowers on each branehlet, their 
pedicels 1 to 2.5 cm long. Buds globose. Flowers rather large. Sepals 
4, concave, imbricate, ovate, rounded, 1 cm long or less. Petals ohovate 
or oblong, 2 cm long or less. Stamens indefinite, their filaments 2.5 
cm long; the stipe to the ovary 3 to 3.5 cm long. Fruit globose, glabrous, 
2 cm in diameter, the pedicel thickened above. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming 1^34. 
A characteristic species, distinguishable by its oblong subcoriaeeous leaves and 
terminal panicles of rather large flowers, the flowers being long-pedicelled and 
fascicled at the ends of the branches. 
CUNONIACEFE. 
SPIRAEOPSIS Miq. 
Spiraeopsis celebica Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1857) 719; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. 
(1892) 57. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines Sur, Mount Isarog, Vidal 2119, in Herb. Kew. 
This monotypic genus is, so far as is known, confined to Celebes and Luzon, 
and has previously been credited to the Philippines in the rather obscure “Cata- 
logo de las Plantas del Herbario,” published in Manila in 1892. In view of its 
special interest in adding a species belonging to a monotypic genus to the already 
long list known only from Celebes and the Philippines, it is again enumerated 
here. 
