i 
fixed; style 2 mm.. long, glabrous, 2-eleft into flattened 
arms. 
Type specimen 196, Forestry Bureau, collected by Ahern’s 
collector, Dalupaon (Pasocao), Province of Camarines Sur, 
Luzon, January, 1902. 
DENTELLA FORST. 
1. D. repens Forst. 
GALIUM LINN. 
* Flowers yellowish; leaves ovate, finely ciliate. 
1. G. ciliare Hook. 
* * Flowers whitish; leaves linear lanceolate, glabrous. 
2. G. gaudichaudi DC. 
GEOPHILA DON. 
* Leaves thin, less than 5 mm. across, usually root opposed. 
1. G. (891* Whitford). 
* * Leaves thicker, more than 5 mm. aeross, usually opposite. 
2. G. reniformis Don. 
GUETTARDA LINN. 
1. G. speciosa Linn. 
GARDENIA LINN. 
* Fruit globose, its pericarp at least 5 mm. thick; scar at apex 
broadly circular and depressed. 
1. G. whitfordii n. sp. Small slender trees, 7 to 10 m. 
high; branchlets smooth, yellowish white. Leaves chiefly at 
he ends of the twigs, opposite, 1 to 3 em. apart, subcoria- 
ceous, glabrous, oblong to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate 
to oblanceolate, apex acuminate or abruptly tapering to a 
caudate point, base obtuse or acute, with 5 to 7 pairs of 
rather obscure lateral nerves, 4 cm. wide, 12 cm. long in- 
cluding the glabrous 8 mm. long petiole; stipule coriace- 
ous, 5 mm. long, sharply acuminate. Fruits usually solitary 
in the axils of the leaf scars, upon 5 mm. long bracteate 
peduncles, globose, 2.5 cm. in diameter, very hard, 1-cel- 
led or with a very obscure placenta like partition; peri- 
carp leathery, 5 mm. thick; seeds 9 to 12 in each cell of the 
false divisions, irregularly compressed, circular in surface 
outline, about 5 mm. in diameter, dark brown, not pitted 
but with a felty appearance, closely imbricate and without 
pulpy tissue between them. 
