488 : LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. II, Art. 24 
river at 2750 feet. The fruit is sour and the plant is called 
by the Visayan '"Tagobinlod." Also collected by Mrs. Clemens 
in the lake Lanao region of central. Mindanao. 
Li 
TRACHELOSPERMUM Lem. 
Trachelospermum philippinense Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and forming bushes; stems 2.5 cm. thick, crooked, 
terete, quite flexible and more or less twining; wood soft, 
porous; bark brown and gray mottled, lenticelled, with sticky 
milky sap; numerous branchlets short, crooked and wiry. 
Leaves coriaceous, dark shining green, descending, subelliptic 
to obovate, opposite, glabrous, apex with blunt obtuse point, 
the base attenuate or short cuneate, the average larger blades 
8 cm. long by 5 cm. wide; the nerves rather faint, from 
5 to 7 pairs, oblique, anastomosing, the numerous reticulations 
comparatively conspicuous; petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, glabrous, 
deciduous. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, suberect, 
paniculately elongated, 1 to 2 dm. long, upon 5 cm. long 
glabrous peduncles; main branches dichotemous, ultimately 
trichotemous, short rusty brown pubescent, the ultimate ones 
rather short and subtended by 2 mm. long obtuse bracts which 
are covered with a similar pubescence; pedicels stout, about 2 
mm. in length, also pubescent; calyx equal in length, rigid, dense- 
ly covered on the exterior with short ferruginous hairs; the 
5 erect segments united at the base, quite thick in texture, 
obtusely triangular, 1.5 mm. long, equally as wide across the 
base; corolla tube 6 mm. long, glabrous, constricted below the 
middle, above the middle inflated; corolla lobes 5, slightly twist- 
ed to the right in the bud but reflexed to the left in anthesis, over- 
lapping, 2.5 mm. long, the right one half again as long as the left 
C ; side, apices rounded; stamens 5, included, sessile; their filaments 
E adnate to the corolla tube; anthers lanceolate, introrse,united about 
the stigma, terminated by an acuminate 1 mm. long point; style at 
least 2 mm. long, glabrous, with a crooked bend above the middle, 
bearing a terminal broadened bifid stigma, separated toward the 
base; ovary ovoid, bristly pubescent, 1 mm. long, divided into 2 
plano-convex parts, its base surrounded by a glabrous band 
of connected scales 0.75 mm. in height. 
