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subtus minute dentieulatis. Spadicibus fruetiferis terminalibus, binis 
vel ternis, densis, oblongis, cylindraceis, 7 ad 10 cm longis, 1.5 cm 
diametro; fructibus circiter 5 mm longis, plus minus angulatis, apice 
truncatis; stigmatibus 5 vel 6. 
Negros, Mount Silay, Whitford 1541, May, 1906, in forests on exposed ridges 
at an altitude of about 1,200 m. 
This species is allied to the preceding, and in the preliminary work on the 
present paper it was considered to be the same as F. dilatata. On going over the 
material with Mr. Elmer, however, it was found that the present species differed 
constantly from the preceding in its leaves being densely imbricated but not 
dilated at the base, the membranaceous margins narrower and attached along 
one side, leaving no free portion at the apex, and by its very dense syncarps 
and shorter fruits. It has again been collected by Mr. Elmer in southern Negros. 
17. Freycinetia merrillii Elm. Leaf!. Philip, Bot. 1 (1907) 210. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 9101, May, 1907, type. 
18. Freycinetia megacarpa sp. nov. § Pleiostigma. 
Scandens, ramis ramulisque plus minus triangularibus, 5 ad 10 mm 
crassis, rubro-bruimeis ; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 14 ad 
17 cm longis, 3.5 ad 4 cm latis, submembranaceis, apice breviter acu- 
minatis, basi angustatis, vix vaginantibus, margine apicem versus pauce 
obseureque dentieulatis, interne integris; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
ternis vel quaternis; pedunculis 2 ad 3.5 cm longis; syncarpiis globosis 
vel ovoideis, 3 ad 5 cm diametro; fructibus carnosis, ovoideis vel 
obovoideis, usque ad 1.5 cm longis, apice plus minus pyramidatis, angu- 
latis, breviter rostratis ; stigmatibus circiter 6. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., March, 1907. 
A species manifestly allied to the preceding, but the leaves lacking the 
prominent basal auricles, and the margins of the leaves in the basal portions 
entire or subentire. 
19. Freycinetia monocephaia Elm. Leall. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906-7) 78, 218. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, and Mount Banajao, Elmer 1 3S0, 9012, 
May, 1907; Whitford 971, October, 1904. 
A species well characterized by its usually solitary syncarps and very narrow 
grass-like leaves. 
20. Freycinetia sphaerocephala Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Bonite (1843) t. 52; 
Warb. in Pflanzenreieh 3 (1900) 35. 
Freycinetia globosa Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) 260; Elm. Leall. 
Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 217. 
Freycinetia strobilacea Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 154; Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 280, non Blume. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming S39. Mindoro, Mount Halcon, Merrill 
5791, November, 1906. 
Cuming’s specimen is probably the type of the species, although Gaudiehaud 
may have collected the same form in the Philippines. A fragment of Cuming 
839 is now in our herbarium, and from the material now available, 1 find that 
the differential characters by which F. globosa was separated are of no value. 
The figure of F. strobilacea given by Vidal in his Sinopsis Atlas t. 95, f. B, was 
copied from Blume’s Rumphia, fide Vidal, 1. c. XLII. 
