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MALPIGHIACEiE. 
ASPI DOPTER I S A. Juss. 
Aspidopteris ovata (Turcz.) Merrill & Rolfe comb. nov. 
liyssopteris ovata Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36 2 (1803) 583. 
Aspidopteris sp. Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 99. 
Combretum sexalatum Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (190G) Suppl. 212, in 
part, excl. For. Bur. 3130 Ahern’s collector. 
Luzon, Province of Alba.y, Cuming 91/1, 945: Province of Rizal, Novaliclies, 
Loher 5138; Montalban, Loher 175, 176 ; Bosoboso, Merrill 2811; For. Bur. 1163, 
1868, 3126, 3321 Ahern’s collector: Province of Tayabas, Lucena, Merrill 2891. 
Pan at, Miagao, Vidal 27 38. Ticao, Vidal 221/2. Masbate, Merrill 3380. 
A rather widely diffused and somewhat variable endemic species, apparently 
related to Aspidopteris elliptica A. Juss. It was first described by Turczaninow 
under Ryssopteris, Lis type being one of Cuming’s numbers cited above. However, 
Vidal, in working up Cuming’s plants, overlooked Turczaninow’s description and 
entered it in his Phanerogamae Cumingianae Pliilippinarum as Aspidopteris sp. 
Combretum sexalatum Merrill, is a mixture, being based on the flowering speci- 
mens of a true Combretum (p. 116), while the fruiting specimen described is 
Aspidopteris ovata. 
POLYGALA CE2E. 
POLYGALA Linn. 
Polygala persicariaefol ia DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 320; Chodat Monog. Polygal. 
(1891) 331; /3 Wallichiana Chodat 1. c. 
Polygala septemnervia Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 202. 
Philippines, without locality, Micholits. Luzon, Province of Benguet, Merrill 
1/263, 1/1/01. Panay, Vidal 2090. 
We are of the opinion that Polygala septemnervia Merr., can not be distin- 
guished specifically from P. persicariaefolia DC., it being accordingly here 
reduced. 
British India to southern China and Timor, with some forms in tropical 
Africa. 
Polygala japonica Houtt. Handleid. 10 (1779) 89, t. 62, f. 1; Chodat Monog. 
Polygal. (1891) 353. 
Poly gala luzoniensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 202. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Loher 1631; Merrill 1/368. 
Polygala luzoniensis Merrill is apparently only a form of P. ja-ponica and is 
here reduced to that species. 
Japan to Formosa and Celebes. 
Polygala triphylla Ham. in D. Don Prodr. FI. Nepal. (1825) 200; Chodat 
1. c. 41. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Ivabayan, Merrill 1/1/1/2, October, 1905. 
India to southern China and Japan; new to the Philippines. 
DIOHAPETALACE2E. 
DICHAPETALUM Dup.-Thouars. 
Dichapetalum luzoniense Merrill & Eolfe sp. nov. § Eudichapetalum. 
Frutex scandens; ramis junioribus dense fulvo-pubescentibus ; foliis 
elliptico-ovatis, acutis vel obscure acuminatis, supra nervis exceptis 
glabris, subtus praesertim ad nervos dense olivaceo-pubescentibus ; cymis 
