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PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 337 
of the midrib, distant, prominent, the reticulations very faint 
lax; petio es 1 to 2.5 cm long, the base somewhat inflated and 
clasping the stems. Inflorescence paniculate, axillary, lenticel- 
late, the peduncles about 15 cm long, dichotomously branched 
the flowers somewhat crowded at the ends of the branches the 
two elongated primary branches frequently equaling the pe- 
duncles in length, marked with numerous scars of fallen flowers 
or branchlets. Flowers large, white, fragrant. Calyx 2 to 3 
cm long, split nearly to the base into 5, narrowly oblong, erect 
obtuse lobes. Corolla-tube about 3 cm long, somewhat con- 
tracted above, distinctly twisted at and above the insertion of 
the anthers ; lobes spreading, obtuse, obliquely and broadly ovate, 
up to 3.5 cm long and 4 cm wide. Anthers narrowjy lanceolate,' 
acuminate, base sagittate, about 7 mm long. Ovary of 2 dis- 
tinct carpels united by the style, surrounded by the fleshy disk. 
Fruit in pairs, sessile, globose, when fresh smooth, up to 10 cm 
in diameter, when dry much smaller, wrinkled. Seeds very 
numerous, rugose, 8 to 10 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Tununi River, along streams. Bur. ScL 
1232U Foxworthy, February, 1911 (type); Binangonan, Whitford 829, 
September, 1904; Baler, Bur, Sci. 10668 McGregor, August, 1909: Province 
of Camarines, Tinambuc, For. Bur. 11^256 Aguilar, April, 1909. 
A very characteristic species, readily distinguished from the others in 
the genus by its large flowers and fruits, and especially by its calyx 
being split nearly to the base into 5, long, narrow lobes. 
TABERNAEMONTANA L. 
TABERNAEMONTANA CORDATA sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus, fructibus immaturis exceptis glaber; 
foliis oblongis, usque ad 14 cm longis, acute acuminatis, sessi- 
libus, basi late cordatis; cymis axillaribus, paucifloris; folliculis 
maturis glabris, junioribus griseo-puberulis, rubris, oblongis, 
falcatis, longitudinaliter 5-carinatis; seminibus circiter 15. 
An erect shrub about 2 m high. Branches slender, terete, 
light-gray. Leaves oblong, sessile, base broad, cordate, apex 
sharply acuminate, 2 to 4 cm wide, 6 to 14 cm long, chartaceous, 
glabrous, one of each pair somewhat smaller than the other; 
nerves 9 or 10 on each side of the midrib. Cymes in the upper . 
axils, short, few-flowered, the flowers often only 2 or 3, ap- 
parently white, the pedicels slender, about 1.5 cm long. Calyx- 
tube short, the lobes ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long. Corolla- 
tube about 1.4 cm long, 1.5 mm in diameter in the middle, 
the lobes narrowly oblong, falcate, rounded, about 9 mm long, 
2.5 to 3 mm wide. Calyx-teeth oblong-ovate, acute. Follices 
