March 27, 1915] 



Two Hondred Twenty Six New SpECfEa— II 



2791 



OLEACEAE 



Jasminum apoense Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent and shrubby; branches terete, wiry, covered 

 with yellowish brown bark coarsely checked longitudinally; 

 twigs smooth, greenish, glabrous, dark brown when dry. 

 Leaves opposite, widely scattering, horizontal, glabrous, sub- 

 lucid on both sides thougb darker green on the upper nearly 

 flat surface, curing equally dark coffee brown on both sides, 

 oblong, the blades 9 to 13 cm long by 4 to 5 cm wide 

 across the middle, the entire margins subinvolute in the 

 dry state, obtuse to subacute at the apex, base obtuse to 

 obtusely rounded; petiole ascendingly curved or even twist- 

 ed, 1.5 to 2 cm long, widely and shallowly grooved along 

 the upper side, glabrous, blackish brown when dry, com- 

 paratively thick; midrib deeper brown and prominent be- 

 neath, plane above or caniculate toward the base; the basal 

 lateral pair of the nerves arising from the base and run- 

 ning 5 mm below the edge and connecting the upper 3 to 

 5 lateral pairs of nerves, all lateral ones relatively faint, 

 no cross bars nor reticulations. Inflorescence chiefly from 

 the upper leaf axils, seldom from the axils of the branch - 

 lets, 1.5 to 2 dm long, ascending, usually few branched, 

 relatively short or 2 to 3 cm long, bearing toward the distal 

 end 3 flowers, subcompressed, shining and deep brown when 

 dry as is also the rachis, subtended by a minute bract; 

 flowers sessile and subopposite toward the top of the very 

 sparingly branched panicle, 1 to 2 or 3 from the distal 

 ends of the branches according to size, also subtended by 

 bracts of a smaller size; calyx short cup shaped, 5 mm 

 across the 5 apiculately pointed apex, at the base abrupt- 

 ly constricted into a 2 cm long pedicel-like stalk, glabrous, 

 coriaceous, minutely gland dotted especially toward the top; 

 corolla 3 cm long, more than one half of the basal portion 

 tubular, the 5 lobes rotately spreading, glabrous, creamy 

 white, tube terete and 5 mm thick; lobes oblong, nearly 

 1.5 cm long, one half as wide, truncately rounded at the 

 apex, at the base somewhat constricted and the sides sub- 

 lobate, imbricate in the bud state; stamens 2, included in 



