506 The Philippine Journal of Science — 
OLEACEAE 
LIGUSTRUM Linnaeus 
LIGUSTRUM TSOONGII sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, ramis pallidis, teretibus, ramulis junioribus 
puberulis, tenuibus; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 
coriaceis, pallidis, 4 ad 8 cm longis, obtusis ad rotundatis, saepe 
leviter retusis, basi acutis vel decurrento-acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque 8 ad 10, valde tenuibus, obscuris, reticulis subobsoletis, 
subtus minutissime puncticulatis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 
numerosis, 7 ad 10 cm longis, laxis, multifioris, minute puberulis 
vel glabris; floribus circiter 2 mm longis. 
A tree, glabrous except the minutely puberulent branchlets 
and inflorescences. Branches terete, grayish brown, smooth, 
the branchlets slender, straw-colored. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, 
oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse to rounded, often slightly 
retuse, 4 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, base acute to slightly 
decurrent-acuminate, pale and slightly shining when dry, the 
midrib impressed on the upper surface; lateral nerves slender, 
obscure, 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, slightly impressed 
on the lower surface as are the rather obscure reticulations, the 
lower surface minutely and densely’ puncticulate; petioles 4 to 
8 mm long. Inflorescences axillary on the ultimate branchlets, 
lax, many-flowered, 7 to 10 cm long, minutely puberulent. 
Flowers white, very numerous, about 2 mm long, their pedicels 
1 mm long or less, the bracts broadly ovate, about 0.5 mm long, 
slightly ciliate. Calyx 0.7 mm in diameter, shallowly 4-lobed. 
Corolla cup-shaped, about 2 mm long, the lobes very short, 
rounded. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1860, June 19, 
1918. 
A species probably most closely allied to Ligustrum japonicum 
Thunb., but with differently shaped, obtuse to rouhded and often 
retuse, not acuminate leaves. 
APOCYNACEAE 
ICHNOCARPUS R. Brown 
ICHNOCARPUS VOLUBILIS (Lour.) comb, nov. 
Gardenia volubilis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 148, ed. Willd. (1793) 
184; DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 383. 
Ichnocarpus ovatifolius A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 435; Hook. f. Fi. 
Brit. Ind. 3 (1882) 670. 
Ichnocarpus navesii Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 313. 
Carruthersia daronensis Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1450. 
