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ROBINSON. 
A vine with blackish bark, the youngest- shoots, petioles, petiolnles, and 
the under side of the leaves ferruginous-tomentose, older shoots and upper 
side of leaves less markedly but still distinctly pubescent; petioles 2 . 5 - 5.2 
cm long, lateral petiolules 3-6 mm long, terminal petiolules 1. 2-1.3 cm 
long; stipels linear, acute, 3.5-5 mm long; leaflets 3, the lateral 
broadly ovate, obtuse at the apex, 9-9.2 cm long, 6. 1-6.3 cm wide, with 
-1 or 5 jiairs of alternate lateral veins, terminal leaflet rhomboid, 7.2 cm 
long, 4.7 cm wide. 
Type collected at Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon, by R. S. Williams, 
no. 1292, in flower, July 13, 1904. 
SMITH I A Aiton. 
Smithia ciliata Royle Illust. Bot. Ilimal. (1839) 201. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Williams 970 , September 28, 1904; 
Merrill 1/267, October 22, 1905; Bur. Sci. 2502 M earns, April, 1907. 
Not hitherto reported from the Philippines. Less widely distributed in the 
Archipelago than 8. sensitiva Aiton, which has been collected in both Luzon and 
Mindanao. 
STRONGYLODON Vogel. 
Strongylodon pulcher sp. nov. 
Scanclens, lignosus; floribus fasciculatis in rhachidibus tuberculatis 
dispositis, pulchris, 3.5 cm longis, omnibus iiorum partibus purpureo- 
lineatis; foliis trifoliolatis, petiolo longo suffultis, foliolis lateralibus 
oblongis, valcle inaequilateralibus, apice acuminatis, 11.5-13.3 cm longis, 
foliolo terminali lanceolato-ovato, 14.5-15 cm longo. 
Flowers in fascicles of 1-3, borne on more or less persistent tubercles 
1 mm long and 1.5 mm wide and usually winged by the ovate, 1.5 mm 
long, somewhat persistent bracts; the fascicles arranged on green or 
brown, glabrous rachises 6-7 cm long and 1.5 mm in thickness, apparently 
only on leafless stems or branches; peduncles of mature flowers 1.5-2. 5 
cm long, 0.2 mm thick, gradually decreasing in length towards the apex 
of the rachis ; bracteole inserted at the base of the calyx, suborbicular, 
truncate at the base, 5-7-lined, the margins subhyaline, eiliate, the 
bracteoles at. the tips of the flowering shoots especially conspicuous: 
calyx cylindric-campanulate, 7 mm long, 5.5 mm wide, green, villose, its 
lobes very short, eiliate, rounded; corolla attaining a length of 3.5 cm, 
varicolored ; keel scimitar-shaped, 3.2 cm long, 3.5 mm wide, acute at 
the apex, contracted at the base into a claw 6-7 mm long; wings rather 
less than 2 cm long, including a claw 7 mm long, beyond it suddenly 
expanded into an oblong limb 6.5 mm wide rounded at the apex and 
auricled on the lower side of the base; standard 3.5 cm long, 1 cm wide, 
elliptic-lanceolate; staminal tube 4 cm long, marked like the calyx and 
petals with purplish longitudinal lines; pistil at anthesis ciliate-tomentose, 
