2744 



Leaflets op Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Airr. 115 



lobes ascending, imbricate, ultimately spreading in a twist- 

 ing and curved maimer, elliptic, very rigid, 4 cm long 

 and averaging 3 cm wide, obtusely rounded, persistent in 

 fruit; corolla 1.5 dm long, tubular toward tbe base, very 

 leathery, funnel shaped toward the 5-lobed throat, entirely 

 glabrous, 1.5 cm thick at tbe base, 4 to 6 cm across the 

 throat of tbe corolla, rather early falling and becoming 

 detached at the base through decay; lobes strongly imbricate- 

 in the bud state, 4 cm long by 3 cm wide, broadly el- 

 liptic, more or less spreading after anthesis, margins wavy 

 and the outer overlapping portion usually recurved; stamens 

 5; filaments 5 to 7 cm long, inserted at the middle of 

 the corolla or ft trifle below it, strongly curved, glabrous, 

 thickened toward tbe base and grooved along the ventral 

 side, fleshy; anther oblong, 1 cm wide, 2 cm long, the 

 back flat and excavated below the middle, dorsifixed, apex 

 rounded, base lobed, face of cells fluted prior to opening; 

 style also glabrous and fleshy, at least as long as the corolla, 

 slenderer toward the spirally twisting apical portion. Fruits 

 glaucous green, set into a 6 mm wide calyx cup, ovoidly 

 fusiform, 13 cm long by 8 cm thick below the middle, 

 terminated by a very strong 2 cm long mucrom.te point. 



Type specimen number 13850, A. D. E. Elmer, Cm bad - 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Upon the larger limbs of lofty forest trees and was 



ly observed along the steep southern slope of Cawilanan 



peak at 4500 feet altitude where it was quite common. 



A very coarse plant for an epiphyte. The Manobo vernacular 



riame is "Tumacos." 



Flowers more tubularly elongated than in Fagraea auric- 

 ulata Jack and petiole plate9 instead of being auricular are 

 rugosely lobed. 



Fagraea jackii Elm. n. sp. 



Suberect tree or large shrub; stem 2.5 dm thick, 7 m 

 high, terete, crooked, branched from below tbe middle; wood 

 soft, sappy white, very bitter, quite tough, odorless; bark 

 nearly 2.5 cm thick, conspicuously roughened on the dark 



