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,9 to 10 mm. long; secondary branchlets subverticellate, sub- 
tended by short brown scarious bracts; pedicels 3 mm. long, 
subtended by very minute bracts or without them, thickened 
toward the glabrous ovary; flowers creamy white; calyx 
rim shallowly 5-toothed, glabrous, subpersistent; corolla with a 
2 mm. long comparatively broad tube; segments 5, pubescent 
on the ventral side, acute, 1.5 mm. long, reflexed, 0.75 mm. 
wide at the base; stamens 5, barely exceeding the throat, al- 
ternating with the segments and inserted upon the tube of 
the corolla 1 mm. from the throat; anthers 0.75 mm. long, 
broadly ellipsoid; filaments brown, glabrous, 1 mm. in length; 
style slender, also 1 mm. long and glabrous, thickened toward | 
the apex which bears a 3-lobed yellow stigma. 
Type specimen 7943, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Bushy and tightly 
cleaving in the forks of branches of trees and shrubs, in- 
habiting the wet mossy region at 1600 meters. 
Gardenia morindaefolia n. sp. Small tree, 5 m. high; 
branches thick and rigid, the young apical portion yellowish 
pulverulent. Leaves shining and darker green on the upper 
surface, submembranous, glabrous, turning black while drying, 
opposite, deciduous, more or less grouped toward the ends 
of the twigs, elliptie to broadly lanceolate, frequently unequally 
sided and a trifle curved, sharply acuminate, base obtuse or 
attenuate, very variable in size, the larger ones 7 cm. wide, 
19 em. long including the 2 to 5 cm. long petiole, the mid- 
nerve and 8 to 11 pairs of lateral ones dark brown; stipule 
6 mm. long, faintly pubescent at the broad base, sharply 
acute, deciduous, membranous, enclosing a fringe of fine hairs. 
Infrutescence terminal, upon short few branched cymes; ped- 
icels stout, 1 to 2 em. long; fruit bearing a persistent short 
calyx tube, 2.5 em. in diameter, 3 cm. in length, 1-celled; 
pericarp 2 mm. thick, the placenta like partition very thin; - 
seeds about 30, much compressed, triangular or rectangular 
or half eireular, 7 mm. in diameter, black. 
Type specimen 7959, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Evidently rare 
and only observed on exposed ridges on the seacoast side to- 
wards the town of Tayabas. 
