January 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1331 
the flowering and fruiting states. It can be trimmed to become 
most any shape of an erect shrub and in favorable places 
it assumes a subscandent habit. The altitudinal range at 
which it thrives is considerable and it is known to extend 
from the west central Visayan region through Palawan into 
Borneo. 
Gardenia glutinosa Zoll. 
Field-note:—A middle sized tree; stem subterete, nearly 
2 feet thick, somewhat crooked, 40 feet high, mostly branched 
toward the top; wood moderately hard, without odor or taste, 
stramineus white throughout; bark smooth, yellowish gray on the 
outside, dull eremeus otherwise, with a green hypodermis; main 
branches spreading, numerously rebranched, forming a dense 
flattish erown; twigs short, suberect, the young portion waxy 
covered; leaves crowded, ascending, submembranous, deeply 
curved upon the upper side, much paler beneath, the veins whitish, 
tips recurved; flowers erect, solitary, terminal, the calyx boot 
green; corolla 6 inches long, the tube pale yellow, the spreading 
segments ereamy white at first, flavus when old; fruit erect, 
subglobose, nearly 2 inches in diameter; stamens and pistil pale 
white, not turning yellow with age but soon undergoing decay, 
the stigma very large and succulent. 
Represented by number 13064, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Only one tree was found in humid fertile forests at 750 feet 
| along the trail to Napsan. - 
| This is to be carefully examined with my number 12670 
| from Sibuyan island and which I distributed as G. longiflora Vid. 
Our Palawan plant appears different and may be true Zol- 
linger's species. —— 
n 
y Gardenia segmenta Elm. n. sp. 
Small and erect tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. high, mostly 
branched from above the middle; wood soft, dingy or sappy 
white, odorless but with a distinct bitter taste; bark yellowish 
gray and smooth on the outside, white on the inner side; main 
branches spreading, numerously and erookedly rebranched, the 
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