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MERRILL. 
terminal ; pistillate spadices 5 or 6, oblong-cylindrical, 8 to 10 cm. long, 
about 1.5 cm. thick, the peduncles 3 cm. long, ferruginous, strongly sca- 
brous. Fruits very numerous, the free portions subpyramidal, strongly 
ridged. Stigmas 2, rarely 3. 
Scandent in forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 5647). 
A species possibly as closely related to Freycinetia lusonensis Presl, as to any 
other, differing from that species in its longer leaves and more numerous and 
much larger spadices. No. 2994 Ahern’s collector from the Province of Rizal, 
Luzon, is apparently the same. 
Freycinetia globosa Merrill, n. sp. § Pleiostigma. 
Gracilis, scandens, ramulis 2 ad 3 mm. latis, foliis late lanceolatis vel 
oblongo-lanceolatis, 2.5 ad 7 cm. longis, 5 ad 15 mm. crassis, apice brevi- 
ter acuminatis, basi abrupte angustatis, denticulatis ; inflorescentiae 
terminales, spadices S terni, fructiferi globosi, ca. 2 cm. diametro, pe- 
dunculis glabris, 1 cm. longis; fructus ca. 1 cm. longus; semina 2.5 mm. 
longa, anguste linearia; stigmata 4. 
Slender, scandent, the branches reddish-brown, glabrous, 2 to 3 mm. 
thick. Leaves broadly lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, 2.5 to 7 cm. long, 
5 to 15 mm. wide, shortly acuminate, the base rather abruptly, narrowed 
into a 5 mm. long clasping petiole, not auricled, the margins slightly 
denticulate throughout, the teeth small, often obscure; nerves about 15, 
parallel, nearly as prominent as the midrib. Inflorescence terminal, 
pistillate spadices globose, red, fleshy, about 2 cm. in diameter, the 
peduncles glabrous, about 1 cm. long; fruits nearly 1 cm. long, fleshy, 
ovoid; seeds numerous, white, narrowly linear, 2.5 mm. long. 
Scandent in forests at 1,150 m. alt. (No. 5791). 
A species apparently related to Freycinetia ensifolia Merr., from Mount Mari- 
veles and to F. sphaerocephala Gaudicli., differing from the former in its relatively 
broader, shorter leaves and from the latter in its longer, quite differently shaped 
and less strongly denticulate leaves which are not auriculate at the base. 
GRAMINEiE. 
MISCANTHUS Anders. 
Miscanthus sinensis Anders. Oefv. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. Stockh. (1855) 166; 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl., 323. 
In open heaths at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 5704). 
On most Philippine mountains. 
Japan and China to Cochin China, Borneo and Celebes. 
POLLINIA Trin. 
Pollinia sp. near P. monantha Nees; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 
Suppl., 327. 
In an old clearing at 700 m. alt. (No. 5627). 
Apparently identical with specimens from Luzon that Haclcel has indicated in 
lit. as an underseribed species. - 
