76 

 OLEACE.i:. 



Jasminum aculeatum (Blanco) Mogorium aculeatum Blanco, Fl. Filip. 

 ed. 1, n. 1837; ed. 2, 7. 1845; ed. 3, 1:13. Jasminum marianum 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. 128. 1883, excl. syn. Naves, non DC. Jasminum sp. 

 Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. 125. 1885. 

 A scandent shrub 4 to 6 ni. high with membranous, glabrous, ovate leaves 

 and terminal paniculate inflorescence. Branches slender, glabrous, light 

 gray; branchlets opposite, brown, puberulous, subtended by the hardened, 

 truncate, persistent bases of the petioles (described by Blanco as the 

 branchlet representing the rhachis of a compound leaf with two hard 

 stipule-like truncate spines at the base). Leaves entirely glabrous, thinly 

 membranous, broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, the base broad, truncate, 

 rounded or slightly cordate, rarely somewhat acute. 4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 5 

 cm. wide; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 long, jointed below, the base becoming hardened and persistent on the 

 branches. Panicles terminal, spreading. Flowers, white, fragrant, 2 cm. 

 long. Calyx oblong, glabrous, small, with 6 minute teeth. Corolla tube 

 slender, glabrous, 14 mm. long, the limb spreading, 6 to 8 cleft, the lobes 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 10 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide. Anthers 

 2, 3 ram. long. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, glabrous, shining, about 8 mm. 

 long. 



(1211 Cuming) ; also the following specimens: Luzon, Province of Rizal, 

 Bosoboso (1868 Merrill), April, 1903; Province of Tarlac (C. L. Hall), 

 1903; Province of Zambales, Subic (2100 Merrill), April, 1903. Mindoro, 

 Bulalacao (921 Merrill), April, 1903; Pola (2449 Merrill). May, 1903. A 

 scandent shrub rather common in open thickets and apparently widely 

 distributed in the Philippines. 



VERBENACE^. 



Clerodendron blancoi Naves. 



(1573, 1644.) These numbers of Cuming's collection have not previously 

 been identified, but certainly represent Naves's species, for a discussion and 

 full synonymy of which see page 62. 

 Premna odorata Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1. 489. 1837; 1. c, ed. 2, 341. 1845; 



ed. 3, 2:268; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2:900. 1856; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 



11:638. 1847. Premna ■vestita Schauer, 1. c, 631; Miq. 1. c, 892; 



Vidal, Phan. Cum. Philip. 134. 1885; Sinopsis, Atlas, t. 74. f. E. 



1883; Rev. PL Vase. Filip. 209. 1886; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 159. 1883; 



Merrill Forest. Bureau Bull. 1:51. 1903. Premna pubescens F.-Vill. 



1. c, non Blume. 

 (599 Cuming, cotype. Premna vestita Schauer.) Blanco's name is the 

 proper one for this species as determined by the author ^ Premna vestita 

 Schauer being certainly identical with P. odorata. The most common and 



'Govt. Lab. Publ., 27:68. 1905. 



