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dry, terete or somewhat angled. Leaves narrowly oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, brittle, blackish when dry, shining, 

 12 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, acuminate, base acute; 

 lateral nerves obscure, slender, about 10 on each side of the 

 midrib, visible on the upper surface but obsolete or nearly so on 

 the lower surface, reticulations obsolete; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm 

 long ; stipules about 4 mm long. Flowers large, white, fragrant, 

 5-merous, sessile, fascicled, axillary, 3 to 5 in each fascicle, the 

 fascicles subtended by several, imbricate, triangular-ovate, acute 

 to obtuse, submembranaceous, prominently nerved, 6 to 7 mm 

 long bracts. Calyx tube terete, obovoid, glabrous, about 4 mm 

 long and wide, the lobes ovate, rounded, minutely ciliate on the 

 margins. Corolla tube slender, cylindric, about 10 cm long and 

 2 to 3 mm in diameter, the lobes lanceolate, spreading or re- 

 curved, acute or acuminate, 4 to 5 cm long and about 5 mm wide. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23492 Ramos, 

 August 1, 1915. 



This most striking and characteristic species does not resemble any 

 species of the genus known to me, and is strongly characterized by its 

 obscurely nerved, coriaceous leaves, and very long, slender, fascicled, 

 axillary, sessile flowers, the fascicles subtended by several imbricate persist- 

 ent bracts. 



MORI N DA Linnaeus 



MORINDA PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Frutex alte scandens, glaber; foliis ellipticis, usque ad 18 cm 

 longis, in siccitate subnigris, nitidis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus valde prominentibus, subtus in 

 axillis leviter barbatis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, umbellatis, 

 capitulis numerosis, 25 ad 30, fructibus globosis, longe pedun- 

 culatis, circiter 1 cm diametro, pedunculis usque ad 4 cm longis. 



A scandent shrub, apparently of large size, glabrous except the 

 slightly bearded axils of the veins on the lower surface of the 

 leaves. Branches stout, wrinkled when dry, pale-brownish, 

 somewhat 4-angled, 6 to 8 mm in diameter. Leaves elliptic, 

 blackish when dry, subcoriaceous, shining, 15 to 18 cm long, 7 

 to 9 cm wide, acuminate, base somewhat acute; lateral nerves 

 about 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower 

 surface, the ultimate reticulations distinct, rather close ; petioles 

 about 3 cm long, black. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, from 

 25 to 30 heads in each umbel, the heads, in fruit, black when 

 dry, globose, about 1 cm in diameter, each composed of 25 or 

 more individual fruits grown together in a somewhat fleshy 

 mass, the peduncles up to 4 cm in length. 



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