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applies closely to the specimens here considered, and accordingly his specific name, 
being the oldest one available, is here adopted. Gymnosporia philippinensis Vidal 
was based on Planchon’s herbarium name Putterlickia ? philippinensis, both being 
nomina nuda. The specimen, Cuming no. 1575, is certainly only Gymnosporia 
spiriosa with immature leaves. We have not been able satisfactorily to identify 
Vidal’s Gymnosporia ambigua, briefly characterized in his Sinopsis, Atlas (1883) 
20, t. 31, f. B., no specimens being extant, and the description being very 
imperfect. 
Var. parva Merrill & Rolfe var. nov. 
Frutex glaber usque ad 2 m alt a, differt a typo foliis multo minoribus, 
2.5 ad 3.5 cm longis, 1 ad 2 cm latis. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban, Merrill 5070, March, 1905, in thickets 
along the Mariquina River. 
KHAMAACEiE. 
VENTILAGO Gaertn. 
Ventilago gracilis (Vidal) Merrill & Rolfe comb. nov. 
Kurrimia gracilis Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 89. 
Erroneously ascribed by Vidal, probably owing to lack of fruiting specimens 
at the time, to Kurrimia (Celastraceae) , but a valid species of Ventilago, and 
accordingly here transferred to that genus. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Vidal 1122 (type) ; Loher 335; For. Bur. 3073 
Ahern’s collector. 
YITACEzE. 
AMPELOCISSUS Planch. 
Ampelocissus imperial is (Miq.) Planch, in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1887) 408. 
Vitis ? imperialis Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. (I860) Suppl. 518; Ann. Mils. Lugd. Bat. 
1 :89. 
Cissus ochracea Teysm. & Binn. in Tijdsch. Nederl. Ind. 27 (1864) 35. 
Vitis ochracea Teysm. in Planch. 1. c. as syn. ; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 51. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Gubat, Vidal 21/29. Culion, Merrill 60S, February, 
1903. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 331, March, 1906. 
Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 
Ampelocissus barbata (Wall.) Planch, in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1887) 408. 
Vitis barbata Wall, in Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey, 2 (1832) 478; Laws, in Hook, 
f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1 (1875) 651, in part; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 65 2 (1896) 
387; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 51. 
Panay, Vidal 21/1/2. Semekara, Merrill 1/150. 
Assam, Burma, etc., to the Andaman Islands and Perak. 
Both the above species are enumerated from the Philippines in Ceron’s 
Catalogo, published in Manila in 1892, but as this work is rather obscure, it has 
been considered advisable to list the species again, giving their synonomy and 
distribution. 
