508 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, dark olivaceous when dry, slightly shin- 
ing, paler and more brownish beneath, subequally narrowed to 
the cuneate base and the obtusely acuminate apex; lateral nerves 
slender, 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, the reticulations sub- 
obsolete; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Cymes few-flowered, usually 
only one or two flowers persisting, simple or branched from 
the base, about 2 cm long, excluding the flowers. Flowers white. 
Calyx 3 to 4 mm long, the lobes orbicular, 2 mm in diameter, 
rounded, margins minutely ciliate, each with a group of three 
minute oblong glands on the inner face near the base. Corolla 
tube cylindric, about 1.8 cm long, the lobes spreading, oblong- 
obovate, rounded, 1.5 cm long, 7 mm wide. Anthers 1.5 mm 
long. Young follicles oblong-ovoid, rostrate, terete, or with a 
single obscure ridge on the ventral face, somewhat falcate, 12 
to 15 mm long, about 7 mm in diameter. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1977, July 11, 
1918. 
Striking characteristics of this species are its narrow leaves, 
the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; its few-flowered cymes; 
and its small, rostrate follicles, which are terete or with at most 
a single obscure ridge on the ventral surface. 
ASCLEPIADACEAE 
STREPTOCAULON Wight and Arnott 
STREPTOCAULON TOMENTOSUM Wight & Arn. Contrib. Ind. Bot. (1834) 
64; DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 496; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 26 (1889) 101. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1844, June 11, 
1918, with the local name lo mo. 
New to Kwangtung Province, but recorded from China, with- 
out locality, by de Candolle, and from Yunnan by Forbes and 
Hemsley. Indo-China to Malaysia. 
_ VERBENACEAE 
PREMNA Linnaeus 
PREMNA MICROPHYLLA Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36* (1863) 217; 
Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 256. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1872, June 
22, 1918, with the local name paw ping. 
Japan and central China; not previously recorded from 
Kwangtung Province. 
