1464 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 73 
minate and strongly recurved, subcuneate at the base, in opposite 
subequal or very unequal pairs, the larger blades 17 em. long by 
6 cm. wide at the middle, oblong, the smaller ones 3 cm. long and 
lance shaped; midrib reddish brown and conspicuous beneath, 
grooved below the middle on the upper side; the normal leaves 
with 7 to 10 lateral pairs, divaricate and a trifle curved, their 
tips strongly curved and faintly united, reticulations rather coarse 
and very faint; petiole 5 to 15 mm. long, also glabrous, canicu- 
late. Flowers in pairs or occasionally in triplets, terminal, odor- 
less, sessile; calyx green, slenderly tubular, curved, 4 to 7 cm. 
long, gradually thickened toward the distal end, glabrous on the 
outside at least, the terminal portion 4 mm. thick and crowned 
by 5 oblong and obtusely pointed 2 mm. long teeth, about 3 or 4- 
pointed appendages on each of the ventral basal portion of the 
segments; corolla nearly 2 cm. long, 4 mm. thick, also glabrous; 
corolla lobes 5, white except the greenish basal portion, rotately 
spreading, oblongish, 1 cm. long and one half as wide across the 
base or the widest portion, one side at the middle abruptly oblique 
or occasionally lobulate, that portion below the middle veiny 
and thickened on one side, the upper portion thin and margins 
crinkled; stamens 5, included below the throat, erect; filaments 
0.5 mm. long, glabrous; anther lance shaped, 2 mm. long, flat- 
tened, basifixed, 0.75 mm. wide below the middle, ventrally 
dehiscent; pistil 7.5 mm. long, glabrous; ovary 2 to 3 mm. long, 
somewhat compressed, the 2 cells only falsely united, each with 
numerous ovules; style as long, parted toward the base; stigma 
terete, united, pointed, 1.5 mm. long. 
Type specimen 10657, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
An undershrub of rare occurrence on very steep moist 
wooded ravines along the Sibulan river at 3000 feet altitude. 
"Sali-bot-bot" is the native or Bagobo name. 
Tabernaemontana  congestiflora Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree; stem terete, 2 dm. thick, 8 m. high; 
main branches from the middle, divarieate, amply rebranched, 
the yellowish gray twigs glabrous and excrescently lenticelled; 
wood soft, nearly white, bitterish, with latex. Leaves opposite, 
very or only slightly unequal, glabrous, flat or only the abruptly 
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