NOTES ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY. 
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TILIACEiE. 
TRIUMFETTA Plunder. 
Triumfetta repens (Blume) Merrill & Bolfe comb. nov. 
Porpa repens Blume Bijdr. (1825) 198; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 2 (1859) 198. 
Triumfetta subpalmata Soland. ex Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. 28 (1890) 2, pi. 
293, f. 1. 
Triumfetta procumbens Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1903) 17, non 
Forst. 
Luzon, Province of Caxnarines Sur, Merrill 3373, November, 1903: Province 
of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 8J/01 Merritt & Curran, December, 1907. Mindoro, 
Pola, Merrill 2387, May, 1903. 
Hemsley L c. has shown that this form is distinct from Triumfetta procumbens 
Forst., but Blume’s specific name is much the earlier and is here retained for 
the species. It is the type of the genus Porpa Blume. A cotype of Blume’s 
species is in the herbarium of Columbia University, and Dr. C. B. Robinson who 
has examined it informs us that it is identical with the material cited above. 
Seashores, Java, Borneo, islands off the coast of Cochin China, Keeling Islands 
and some groups of islands off the coast of Queensland. 
MALVACEAE. 
HI BISCUS Linn. 
Hibiscus syriacus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) G95; Masters in Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. 1 (1874) 344; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 25; Naves 1. e. t. 37/6. 
Mindoro, Calapan, Bur. Sci. 930 Mangubat, June, 1906. 
The only previous record for this species as a Philippine plant is that of 
F.-Villar, and his work being in general so untrustworthy, it is again recorded 
here. The species occurs in the Philippines only as a cultivated plant, as is the 
case with Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L., H. mutabilis L., and H. schizopetalus Hook. 
SI DA Linn. 
Sida corylifolia Wall. Cat. (1828) no. 1805; Masters in Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. 1 (1874) 342 ; E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 30 (1892) 240. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Vidal 2169, 2180; For. Bur. 27f7 f 7 Ahern’s collector. 
The species is not common in the Philippines, and is apparently local, the only 
previous record of the species from the Archipelago being that of Baker, 1. c. 
Burma to southern China, Java and the Philippines. 
Sida balabacensis Merrill & Rolfe sp. nov. 
Suffruticosa, erecta; ramis ramulis peclicellis calycibusque plus minus 
dense cinereo-stellato-puberulis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, basi rotundatis, 
apice acuminatis, margine dentatis, subtus leviter puberulis ; floribus 
axillaribus solitariis, pedicellis circiter medium articulatis, geniculatis, 
usque ad 3 cm longis; carpellis 8, 5 mm longis, verrucosis, apice biros- 
tratis, rostris 4 mm longis, retrorso-pilosis. 
Erect, more or less branched, suffrutescent. Branches somewhat com- 
pressed, densely gray-stellate-puberulent or pubescent. Leaves oblong- 
ovate, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the base broad, rounded or 
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