393 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Anr. 16 
subglabrous, united at the base, edges finely ciliate, persis- 
tent; the 5 lobes 1 mm. long, obtusely rounded; corolla 
falling as a whole, 2 mm. long, glabrous except the fringe 
of hairs around the throat; its 5 segments adnate in bud, 
3-nerved, the upper two thirds free portion thicker and bluntly 
obtuse; stamens, also 5, alternating with the segments and 
inserted upon the corolla throat; filaments glabrous, about 
0.75 mm., in length; anthers basifixed, cordate, 0.5 mm. long, 
equally as wide across the base; ovary short ovoid or subglobose, 
sessile, subglabrous, gradually tapering to the strict sparsely 
hairy 1 mm. long style terminated by a minute stigma; fruits 
when collected hard and green, globose or short obovoid, 2 
to 3 cm. thick, the surface more or less punctate. 
Type specimen for fruit 7885 and for flower 8251, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Lucban, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. The 
narrow leaved or fruiting specimen was collected in light 
thickets at 700 meters; the broad leaved or flowering specimen 
was found in humid woods at 500 meters between Lucban 
and Sampaloc. Very similar to S. angustiflora Benth. from 
the Island of Hongkong, China, and to S. multiflora Benth.» 
an endemic species of the Philippines. From the latter it 
can be distinguished by its smaller leaves and flowers, by 
its terminal corymbose panicle and with the individual flowers 
not in congested clusters. 
APOCYNACEAE. 
Voacanga plumeriaefolia n. sp.—A tree about 10 m. high; 
branches not numerous, spreading, rather thick; wood soft, 
white; sap in bark very viscid, whitish. Leaves opposite, 
scattered along the scarcely branched watery twigs, few but 
horizontally spreading, quite variable in size, the smaller 
ones nearly elliptic, the others oblong, lucid green above, 
the medium sized ones about 3 dm. long and 11 em. wide, 
rigid, succulent, very hard to cure, equally tapering at 
both of the acute or obtuse ends, glabrous, the entire margins 
slightly involute, pinnately nerved into 13 to 17 divaricate 
pairs and quite prominent beneath, reticulations not evident; 
petiole 1 to 3 em. long, glabrous; stipule stiff, triangular 
plates, adnate to the base of the petiole and branch. 
Nuts solitary or in pairs, upon simple or sparingly branched 
