586 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE Botany [Vor. II, ArT. 29 
Interlacing shrubberies and climbing over stocky trees 
on a wind beaten ridge at 4000 feet. Called ''"Tagima- 
itam". 
It must not be confused with 5762 collected by E. D. 
Merrill on mount Haleon and which is the type of S. foetida 
Merr. It is however, identical with 7678 of the same col- 
lector from the same mountain. The infrutescence and foliage 
of our species are much larger. 
OLEACEJE. 
LINOCIERA Sw. 
Linociera rubrovenia Elm. n. sp. 
A tree, 10 m. high; branches crooked, quite rigid except 
the numerous rather lax branchlets; wood moderately hard, 
whitish, odorless, slightly bitterish; twigs lenticelled, ashy 
gray, at the points of branching subtended by a fringe of 
brown adpressed scales. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, dark 
green and conduplicate on the upper side, lighter beneath, re- 
curved especially toward the tip, oblong, 10 cm. long, nearly 
one half as wide across the middle, apex abruptly acute, base 
cuneate, oppositely scattered along the glabrous younger por- 
tions of the twigs, margins entire; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 
glabrous, light green, articulate at the base; axillary buds pres- 
ent in nearly all the leaf axils; nerves brown in the dry state, 
more conspicuous beneath, the 6 to 8 lateral pairs ascending, 
the ends only faintly united, reticulations obscure. Inflorescence 
paniculately branched, below the leaves but upon the same 
young twigs; main branches 5 cm. long, glabrous, opposite, 
articulate at the point of attachment, branched above the mid- 
dle; secondary peduncles and 2 to 3 mm. long pedicels also 
glabrous, articulate and subtended by bracteoles; calyx per- 
sistent, 3 mm. broad, quite rigid, finely puberulent especially 
along the margins, the 4 segments obtuse; corolla creamy 
white, glabrous, 2.5 em. long, the 4 thick segments adnate; 
stamens 2, included; filaments very short; anther 1.5 mm. 
long, 1 mm. broad, bifid at the apex, dehiscing laterally; 
fruit not seen. te : | : 
Type specimen 10224, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
