Marcu 18, 1912] New APOCYNACEAE 1465 
acuminate apex recurved and usually somewhat curved, oblong- 
ish, the base broadly obtuse, the larger blades 16 em. long by 
6 cm. wide across the widest or middle portion, margins entire, 
nearly black on the upper side when dry, brownish beneath, 
the smaller blades 3 cm. long and subelliptic; midvein prominent 
beneath and yellowish brown on our specimens, grooved on the 
upper side especially toward the base; lateral nerves 7 to 12 
pairs, divaricate, similar in prominence and color, tips ascending 
but not united, reticulation obsolete; petiole 1 cm. long, also gla- 
brous, the basal axillary portion bearing a thick stipular-like 
membrane. Flowers in short eymose clusters from the lower 
leaf axils; branches thick, glabrous, less than 1 em. long, usually 
curved; flowers clustered mostly on the upper side toward the 
distal ends of the short branchlets, leaving large yellowish white 
scars after falling; calyx tubular, greenish, about 1 cm. long, 
subtended at the base by minute bracteoles, at the top somewhat 
thickened and terminated by 5-apiculate teeth; corolla tube 
cylindrie, glabrous and striate, yellowish, about as long as the 
calyx; segments 5, rotately spreading, nearly as long as the tube, 
> narrowly oblong or broadly ligulate, also glabrous, veiny, aver- 
[^ aging 3 mm. wide, cremeus; stamens 5, in the middle of the cor- 
olla tube, erect; filaments 1 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 2 mm. 
long, linear, compressed, sharply pointed, 0.5 mm. wide, basifixed, 
minutely lobed at base; style nearly 5 mm. long, very slender, 
glabrous; stigmatic portion 1 mm. long, subcolumnar, around 
the base provided with a sort of a brush. 
Type specimen 12564, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in compact red soil of a wooded ridge at 1000 
feet elevation near the Pauala river. 
Very near to T. mucronata Merr. but our leaves average 
larger, inflorescence more congested and with corolla segments 
twice as long. The fruits of both species are unknown. 
| : WRIGHTIA R. Br. 
Wrightia hanleyi Elm. n. sp. 
A low erect shrub; stems several or few from the same 
