306 The Philippine Journal of Science 1916 



lations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 3 to 5 mm long, jointed 

 below the middle. Inflorescence terminal and terminating short 

 lateral branches, or in the axils of the upper leaves, slender, 

 peduncled, few-flowered, usually about three flowers in each in- 

 florescence, the peduncle often supplied with a few, oblong, apic- 

 ulate, greatly reduced leaves or leaf-like bracts less than 1 cm 

 long, the bracteoles very slender, linear-acicular, 2 to 3 mm long. 

 Calyx-tube glabrous, cup-shaped, about 2 mm long, the teeth 6 

 to 8, linear, glabrous, persistent, about 6 mm long. Corolla-tube 

 7 to 8 mm long. 



Celebes, Macassar, Rel. Robins. 2450, July 11, 1913. 



Perhaps as closely allied to Jasminum ensatum Blume as to any other 

 species, but the petioles, peduncles, and calyces quite glabrous; the leaves 

 much smaller; and the calyx-lobes relatively much longer. 



LINOCIERA Swartz 

 LINOCIERA RAMIFLORA (Roxb.) Wall. Cat. (1831) No. 2824. 



Chionanthus ramiflora Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 3, nomen nudum, Fl. 

 Ind. ed. 2, 1 (1832) 107. 



Amboina, Liang, Rel Robins. 1798, November 29, 1913, in thickets at 

 an altitude of about 15 meters. 



Chionanthus ramiflora Roxb. was described from specimens cultivated in 

 the botanic garden at Calcutta originating in the Moluccas, probably 

 Amboina. The typical form is also cultivated in the botanic garden 

 at Buitenzorg, Java, from specimens originating in Amboina. I have a 

 series of specimens before me from Burma, Indo-China, various parts 

 of Malaya, the Philippines, and tropical Australia, that I unhesitatingly 

 refer to this species. The Philippine forms, Linociera luzonica (Blume) 

 F.-Vill., and L. cumingiana Vid. must both certainly be reduced to this 

 widely distributed species. 



LOGANIACEAE 



STRYCHNOS Linnaeus 

 STRYCHNOS sp. 



Amboina, Hitoe messen, Rel. Robins. 2029, October 13, 1913, in forests, 

 altitude about 200 meters. Indicated by Mr. A. W. Hill as an un described 

 species. 



FAGRAEA Thunberg 



FAGRAEA SPECIOSA Blume Rumphia 2 (1836) 35, *. 81. 

 Cyrtophyllum speciosum Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1022. 

 Fagraea elliptica Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 84, nomen nudum, Fl. 

 Ind. ed. 2, 1 (1832) 462. 



Amboina, Koesoekoesoe sereh and Mahiya, Rel. Robins. 2037, October, 

 1913, in light forests, altitude 200 to 250 meters, locally known as tonki 

 tonki. 



Fagraea speciosa Blume is here adopted as the oldest valid specific name 

 for this species, the original use of the name Fagraea elliptica Roxb. being 

 as a nomen nudum. Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 376 reduced Blume's 



