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the corolla tube; anther 6 ram long, subterete and much 

 elongated, notched at the base, slenderly acute to acuminate 

 at the apex; filament 1 mm long, nearly as wide, glabrous, 

 inserted upon the corolla 5 mm from the base, longitudi- 

 nally dehiscent along the inner edge; style also glabrous, 

 the basal two thirds slender and terete, much expanded to- 

 ward the apex, terminated by a thick blunt stigmatic point, 

 equalling tbe throat; ovary glabrous, bluntly conical, 3 mm 

 either dimension. 



Type specimen number 11953, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 



Gathered among shrubs of dense humid forests at 4500 

 feet altitude along the trail to Talon to the south of mount 

 Apo. The Bagobos named it "Solo-solo." 



Allied to Jasminum crassifolium Blm. and Jasminum tri- 

 nervium Merr. From the former it differs in its lateral basal 

 nerves arising from the base of the blade; from the latter 

 in its different calyx teeth and corolla lobes as well as in 

 other characters. 



Jasminum rotundifolium Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent shrubs; branches terete, green, wiry, inclined 

 to twine, glabrous, flattened at the point of branching, sub- 

 lucid, deep brown when dry; twigs opposite, even the 

 young portion glabrous, Leaves also opposite, coriaceous, 

 shallowly conduplicate on the upper dark green and shining 

 surface, beneath much paler and duller, the very small 

 apical point recurved, usually rounded or only the smaller 

 ones obtusely rounded, the base very broadly rounded, or- 

 bicular to rotund or the smaller broadly elliptic, exceedingly 

 variable in size, the larger ones nearly 1 dm across either 

 way, entire, glabrous, widely scattered, curing nearly equally 

 brown on both sides; petiole of the larger leaves 2 cm long, 

 those of the smaller leaves only one half as long, reddish 

 dark brown when dry, widely grooved along the upper side, 

 relatively thick and very stout, curved and twisted; midrib 

 raised beneath, plane above, straight from the sunken base 

 to the apical point, with 3 to 5 pairs of secondary lateral 

 pairs between the middle and the apex and which are 



