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4. Freycinetia luzonensis Presl Epim. Bot. (1851) 238; Warb. in Pflanzen- 
reich 3 (1900) 35; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 172; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 
(1885) 154; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 280. 
Freycinetia cumimgiana Gaudicli. Bot. Voy. Bonite (1843) t. 60 et t. 37, f. 
12—11/, sine descr.; C. B. Robinson in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 3 5 (1908) 64. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines Sur, Cuming 11/55 ; Mount Isarog, For. Bur. 
11361 Curran, May, 1908. 
I have examined the number collected by Cuming, cited above, in the Kew 
and Berlin herbaria, and find that Presl’s species is distinct from the form 
previously determined by me as F. luzonensis Presl. 3 It is possible that more 
than one form is included by Presl in the original description of the species, but 
this can only be determined by an examination of the material in Presl’s her- 
barium. The specimens I have seen of Cuming’s number, seem to agree perfectly 
with the figure of F. cumingiana Gaudicli., which, following Warburg, is here 
considered to be a synonym of F. luzonensis. Although the plate representing 
Gaudichaud’s species was published some years earlier than Presl’s species, still 
the description of the plate, but no description of the plant, was not published 
until 1866 in Charles d’ Alleizette’s explanation of the plates, 3: 133. Dr. 
Robinson considered that the Freycinetia luzonensis of recent botanists, including 
Warburg, was different from F. luzonensis of Presl, but I am inclined to consider 
that Warburg correctly interpreted Presl’s species, and also correctly reduced 
to it Gaudichaud’s F. cumingiana. The material that has been considered as 
F. luzonensis Presl, in this office, and distributed as such, certainly does not 
represent Presl’s species, and is below described as new. 
5. Freycinetia vidalii Hemsl. in Kew Bull. (1896) 166; Warb. 1. c. 36. 
Freycinetia confusa Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 213; non Ridley, Mater. 
FI. Malay Penin. 2 (1907) 233. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Viscaya, Bayombon, Vidal 396 1/ in Herb. Ivew 
{type) : Province of Tayabas, Lueban, Elmer 9007, type, of F. confusa Elm. 
1 have examined the type of this species in the Kew Herbarium, and Elmer’s 
Freycinetia confusa is manifestly identical. The species belongs in the section 
Oligostigma, although Warburg placed it in the section Pleiostigma. The type 
is an immature specimen, and there is nothing in the original diagnosis from 
which the proper section can be determined. 
6. Freycinetia robinsonii sp. nov. § Oligostigma. 
Scandens, 2 ad 4 m alta; ramis 1.5 ad 2 cm diametro, ramulis 3 ad 5 
mm chassis; foliis submembranaceis, anguste lanceolatis, circiter 20 cm 
longis, 1 ad 2 cm latis, basi phis minus angustatis vaginantibusque, apice 
sensim acuminatis, vulgo toto margine et subtus in costis spinuloso- 
serratis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, spadicibus femineis 4 vel 5, bracteis 
multis rubris 6 ad 7 cm longis oblongo-ovatis caudato-acuminatis, acumi- 
nibus spinuloso-serratis, exterioribus foliaceis, circumdatis; spadicibus 
fructiferis cylindraceis, oblongis, 3 ad 5 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm crassis; 
fructibus circiter 5 mm longis, apice angulato-pyramidatis ; stigmatibus 
2 vel 3 ; pedunculis 3 cm longis, scabris. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Merrill 3791, January, 1904; Wil- 
liams 338, December, .1903; For. Bur. 219 1/, 2827 Meyer; For. Bur. 752, 21/66, 
3037 (type) Borden ; Whitford 1311, June, 1905 and s. n., July, 1904; Copeland 
3 Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 25. 
