260 MERRILT.. 
about 5 mm long. Calyx teetli triangular-ovate, acute. Corolla about 
mm 
1.6 mm long. Filamouts short; anthers minutely puberulent, 1 mm 
long. Ovai-}' glabrous. Fruit whitish, about 7 mm long; seeds numer- 
ous, 1.5 to 2 mm long. 
Luzon, Trovince of Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 1833, April, 1903; Bur. Sci. 26G7 
Ramos, May, 1007; Bur. 8ci. 60 Foxworthy, January, 1906; ISrontalban, Loher 
4105: Province of Benguet, Twin Peaks, Elmer 6J,ol, June, 1904, a more pubes- 
cent form, but apparently the same species. 
The second species of the genns to be found in the Philippines, readily 
recognizable by its pubescence, its fascicled flowers and glabrous or nearly glal)rous 
corolla-throat. 
FAGRAEA Thunb. 
Fagraea longifiora sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, glabra, pseudo-epiphytica; ramulis tcretibns, cras- 
siusculis; foliis ovato-ellipticis, subcoriaceis, 30 ad 40 cm longis, breviter 
acuminatis; nervis utrinque 8; floribus fasciculatis, terminalibus, ses- 
silibus, congestis; corollae tubo cylindraceo, 10 cm longo. 
A scandent pseudo- epiphytic shrub, glabrous throughout. Branches 
terete, thickened, 1.5 to 2 cm thick. Leaves crowded at the ends of 
the branches, elliptical-ovate, 30 to 40 cm long, 20 cm wide or less, sub- 
coriaceous, tough in texture and not brittle when dry, the apex short- 
acuminate, the base decurrent-acuminate ; nerves 8 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent; petioles about 4 cm long; stipules large. Flowers 
large, crowded in terminal fascicles or in depauperate sessile cymes. Ca- 
lyx about 4 cm long, 5-lobed, the lobes about 2 cm long, imbricate, oblong- 
ovate, blunt or subacute, the bracteoles 2.5 to 3 cm long. Corolla white, 
the tube 10 cm long, cylindrical, slightly enlarged upwards, somewhat 
villous within, the lobes 5, elliptical- ovate, about 4 cm long. Antliers 
about 7 mm long. Fruit unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Banajao, For. Bur. 8026, 802S Gurran d 
Mnritt, November, lfl07, in forests at an altitude of about 700 m. 
A very characteristic species, well distinguished by its long sessile or subsessile 
flowers which are densely crowded into terminal fascicles or depauperated cymes. 
Fagraea auriculata Jack in Malay Miscel. 2 (1822) 82; Blume Eumphia 2 
(1830) 2G, t. 12; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 4 (1SS3) S3. 
Palawan, Mount Victoria, Bur. 8ci. 6^2 Foxworihy, March, 190G. 
British India to the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago; not previously reported 
from the Philippines. 
MITREOLA Linn. 
Mitreola oldenlandioides Wall. Cat. (1828) no. 4350; DC. Prodr. 9 (1845) 9; 
Clarke iu Ilook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1883) 79. 
Luzon, I'rovince of Pangasinan, Bur. 8ci. 4^52 Ramos, December, 1907 : 
Province of Bulacan, near Norzagaray, Yoder 126, December, 1906, 
British India to the Malay Archipelago, Australia and the CaroHiio Islands. 
The first repr.esentativc of the gmiis to be found in the Philippines. 
