20, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 435 
secure, the pericarp thin, rather fragile. Seeds about 9, brown, 
irregular, 6 to 7 mm long. 
MINDOoRO, Paluan, Bur. Sci. 39577 (type), 39576 Ramos, April 
1, 1921. On forested slopes at an altitude of about 500 meters. 
A species belonging in the group with Tabernaemontana 
caudata Merr., but it has larger, differently shaped leaves and 
different inflorescences. From T. mindanaensis Merr. it is 
distinguished by its smaller caudate-acuminate leaves and its 
entirely different fruits. 
KOPSIA Blume 
KOPSIA GRANDIFLORA sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 3 m altus, ramulis puberulis et inflorescentiis 
exceptis glaber; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, ellipticis ad 
oblongo-ellipticis, 10 ad 15 cm longis, nitidis, apice obtuse acu- 
minatis, basi late acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 15 cum reticulis 
utrinque distinctis; inflorescentiis pedunculatis, depauperato- 
cymosis vel dichotome ramosis, paucifloris, pedunculo 3 ad 6 cm 
longo; bracteis orbiculari-ovatis, rotundatis, pubescentibus, 2.5 
mm longis; calycis lobis elliptico-ovatis, rotundatis, 3 mm longis, 
pubescentibus ; corollae tubo 3.7 cm longo, apice leviter incrassato, 
intus in partibus superioribus villoso, lobis obovatis ad elliptico- 
obovatis, 2.5 cm longis, 10 ad 14 mm latis, rotundatis. 
A shrub about 3 m high, the younger branchlets, bracts, and 
ealyces sparingly puberulent or pubescent. Branches glabrous, 
somewhat rugose when dry. Leaves chartaceous to subcoria- 
ceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 10 to 15 cm long, 4 to 6 cm 
wide, grayish olivaceous, shining, narrowed above to the obtuse- 
ly acuminate apex and below to the broadly acute base; lateral 
nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent 
on both surfaces as are the primary and rather close secondary 
reticulations; petioles about 5 mm long. Inflorescences ter- 
minal, peduncled, the peduncles 3 to 6 cm long, the flowers in 
depauperate cymes or the peduncles dichotomously branched 
at their apices, the flowers spicately arranged on the short 
branches. Bracts orbicular-ovate, somewhat pubescent, about 
2.5 mm long, imbricate near the apices of the branchlets, some- 
what scattered below, rounded and somewhat keeled. Calyx 
lobes elliptic-ovate, rounded, 3 mm long, somewhat pubescent, 
their margins ciliate. Corolla tube cylindric, glabrous exter- 
nally, somewhat villous inside in the upper part, slightly en- 
larged at the apex, about 3.7 cm long, the lobes white, obovate 
to elliptic-obovate, rounded, 2.5 cm long, 10 to 14 mm wide. 
