NEW OK NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 317 



A shrub about 2 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches and 

 branehlets slender, terete, pale-gray, somewhat shining. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5 to 4 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, 

 chartaceous or submembranaceous, shining, the base acute or acuminate, 

 sometimes slightly inequilateral, the apex strongly caudate-acuminate, 

 the acumen about one-third as long as the blade, blunt: nerves G to 8 

 on each side of the midrib, faint, spreading, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions very obscure; petioles very slender, about 5 nun long. Flowers in 

 few-flowered, axillary, solitary cymes, but two or three flowers in a 

 cyme, the peduncles very short, the pedicels slender, 1 cm long. Calyx- 

 teeth ovate, blunt, 0.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 12 mm long, slender, 

 the lobes narrowly oblong, 7 mm long. 3 mm wide. Anthers 2 mm long. 

 Carpels narrow, about 2 mm long: styles 10 mm in length. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Luzon, Province of Ilocos Sur, Mount Bulangao, For. Bur. U t 025 Herritt & 

 Darling, November, 1908, in forests at an altitude of about 1,150 in. 



A species well characterized by its small, very strongly caudate-acuminate 

 leaves, which do not exceed 4 cm in length, and its few-flowered cymes. 



Tabernaemontana linearifolia sp. nov. 



Arbuscula glabra, circiter 4 m alta : foliis chartaceis, linearibus vel 

 anguste lanceolato-linearibus, utrinque angustatis, apice gradatim acum- 

 inatis, usque ad 7 cm longis, 5 ad 8 mm latis; floribus axillaribus, 

 solitariis, longe pedicellatis ; follicnlis oblongis, utrinque angustatis acum- 

 inatisque, circiter 2.5 cm longis. 



A glabrous shrub about 4 m high. Branches and branehlets slender, 

 terete, grav, shining. Leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, "3 to 



7 cm long, 5 to 8 mm wide, chartaceous, somewhat shining, olivaceous 

 above when dry, the lower surface paler and somewhat brownish, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, the apex gradually acuminate, the base acute; lateral 

 nerves distant, indistinct, spreading, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 



2 to 4 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, white, their peduncles often 



3 cm long, frequently much shorter. Calyx-teeth ovate, acute or obtuse, 

 1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 13 mm long, slender, the lobes oblique, acute, 

 about 7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Carpels lanceolate, narrowed above, 

 3 mm long; styles 6 to 7 mm long. Follicle oblong, orange-yellow, 

 nearly 2.5 cm long, 8 nun in diameter in the middle, acuminately 

 narrowed at both ends, with three faint ridges extending the whole length, 

 the apical portion with five faint ridges ; seed solitary, narrowly ellipsoid, 



8 mm long, the groove not prominent. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mancayan, For. Bur. 1091,5 Curran, January, 1909, 

 in open grass-lands in thin pine forests, altitude 1,600 m. 



A species well characterized by its very arrow, elongated, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate leaves, its solitary, frequently long-pediceled flowers, and its one- 

 seeded follicles which are acuminately narrowed at both ends. 



