( 
Fesrvuary 23, 1909] Synopsis OF FAGRAEA 507 
Represented by 7160, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, 1906. 
A seacoast species, common from middle Luzon south- 
ward and especially abundant in Mindanao. 
2. Fagraea fragrans Roxb. in Hort. Beng. 84 
A small tree, 8 m. high. Leaves 3 cm. wide, 10 cm. 
long, elliptic, acute at both ends; petiole 12 mm. in length; 
stipules often connate. Corymbs mstly from the upper leaf 
axils, numerously flowered; pedicels 5 mm. long; calyx deeply — 
divided, the lobes rounded; corolla nearly 12 mm. long, cylin- 
drie towards the base, the upper portion narrowly funnel 
shaped; throat 6 mm. wide, the obtuse lobes 5 mm. long; 
stamens much exerted; berry 6 mm. iu diameter, subglobose, 
reddish when nature. 
Represented by H. M. Curran (#orestry Bureau record 4501), 
Island of Palawan, May to June, 1966. 
This handsome tree extends into the Philippines through 
Palawan island as far north as Mindoro. Rare. 
3. Fagraea longiflora Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. - 
3, Sect. C; 260, 1908. 
Suber edt 5 m. high shrub or more s often epiphydé upon 
limbs of large trees; branches sparingly branched but rather- 
rigidly spreading, the ultimate ones thick and subreflexed. — 
Leaves leathery, very variable in size, crowded toward - 
the ends of the twigs, dark green above, much paler be- | 
neath, apex abruptly acute, base long attenuate, deeurrent | 
to the very strong midrib clear to and usually with a pair 
of lobes at the base, broadly oblanceolate, glabrous, the larg- 
“est ones 3 dm. wide above the middle by 1 m. long but 
usually much smaller; veins 9 to 13 pairs, ascending, reti- —— 
eulations not evident. Infrutescence clustered in axillary glomer- iet 
ules, 7 em long, 3 to 5 or even 7-fruited but only a few of 
each glomerule maturing, upon short woody stalks; fruits 
subsessile, olive green, subtended by rigid bracts of diverse fs 
. size and shape, elliptic to obovoid, smooth, hard, green  - 
. except the brown apical disk which extends into a conspi- 
.  euous point, 4 em. long or longer, about 3 em wide, half 
= — the urbitite MENT ut ires "opm em cmd sub- 
