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at their ends; anthers 1 cm long at least, 5 mm wide, 

 versatile, flattened, oblong, grooved along the ventral side; 

 style terete, greenish, fleshy, likewise glabrous, thickened 

 ■toward the enlarged capitate dark green stigma, 10 to 13 

 cm long. 



Type specimen number 13234, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



In wet stony soil of wooded banks along the Iwahig 

 river at about 750 feet above the sea level. 



Not Fagraea nonok Elm. which is in fruit only. Leaves 

 more elongated, not acuminate and with our calyx segments 

 nearly twice as long. It is also quile different from the°Javan 

 specimens named Fagraea. auriculata Jack. Dedicated to 

 William Jack who besides his missionary work did consider- 

 able work in botany of the Malaya region. 



Geniostoma laxa Elm. n. sp. 



Lax shrub; stems 1 dm thick or smaller, 5 m high 

 branched from near the base; main branches suberect, numer- 

 ously and laxly rebranched, the ultimate ones very slen- 

 der, usually curved and with suberect tips; wood soft dull 

 sappy white, odorless, with a faint sweet taste; bark smooth 

 gray -and brown mixed, light gray on the twigs, glabrous 

 on the green young tips. Leaves thinly coriaceous, similarly 

 green on both sides in the fresh state, curing nearly equally 

 black on the sides, opposite, evenly scattered along the 

 upper side, folded upon the same side, the slenderly acute 

 or subcau.iate apex recurved and subfalcate, entire, broadly 

 cuneate or obtusely rounded at the base, elliptical y eloZ 

 at d the average of the larger lamina 9 cm long by one 

 thud as wide across the middle, occasionally much small 

 especially at the top and broadly lanceolate, horiz.mt y 

 spreading; mulrih narrowly calculate on the upper ur^ 

 pronounced beneath, glabrous and black when dry j 



nerves 4 to 5 pairs, relatively faint but equally Teen £o m 

 both sides when dry at least, ascendingly curved from th 

 midn , tips obscurely united, cross bars and et Ition 



*»* dry, caniculate along the upper side. Inflorescence 



