254 Philippine Journal of Science 1919 
ASCLEPIADACEAE 
CRYPTOLEPIS R. Brown 
CRYPTOLEPIS SINENSIS (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Pergularia sinensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 169. 
Emericia sinensis Roem. & Schultes Syst. 4 (1819) 402. 
Pergularia chinensis Spreng. Syst. 1 (1825) 836. 
Vallaris sinensis G. Don Gen. Syst. 4 (1838) 79. 
Cryptolepis elegans Wall. Cat. (1829) No. 1639, nomen nudum, G. 
Don Gen. Syst. 4 (1838) 82. 
Aganosma edithiae Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. V 5 (1866) 227. 
Loureiro’s material was from China, presumably from the 
vicinity of Canton, and has long been considered a species of 
doubtful status. All the synonyms cited above, except the last 
two, are based on Loureiro’s binomial. The description applies 
closely to the species currently known as Cryptolepis elegans 
Wall., a species not uncommon in Kwangtung Province and 
represented by the following specimens: Merrill 10806, Levine 
356, 1850, 3201. Loureiro described the seeds as naked, perhaps 
because he saw only those from which the coma had fallen, or 
perhaps because he really saw no seeds. I am convinced, how- 
ever, that the species as here interpreted is the one Loureiro 
intended. 
APOCYNACEAE 
ALYXIA Banks 
ALYXIA LEVINEI sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque tenuibus, olivaceis ; 
foliis oppositis et ternatis, junioribus membranaceis, vetustiori- 
bus chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, ellipticis ad oblongis, usque ad 
8 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, obtuse acuminatis ; 
inflorescentiis axillaribus brevibus, breviter pedunculatis, ut vi- 
detur paucifloris; fructibus junioribus ellipsoideis, circiter 9 mm 
longis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets slen- 
der, the internodes up to 25 cm in length, branchlets 1.5 mm 
in diameter or less, somewhat angled or striate, the older 
branches terete, smooth, somewhat reddish brown. Leaves op- 
posite and in whorls of three, elliptic to oblong, 5 to 8 cm long, 
2 to 3 cm wide, the younger ones membranaceous, the older ones 
chartaceous to subcoriaceous, olivaceous, shining, subequally 
narrowed to the acute or somewhat acuminate base and to the 
bluntly acuminate apex, the nerves often obsolete, never promi- 
nent; petioles 4 to 7 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, 
short, apparently very few-flowered, their peduncles 5 mm long 
