NEW OK NOTI]WORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 317 



A shrub about 2 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches and 

 branehlets slender, terete, pale-gray, somewhat shining. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 2,5 to 4 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, 

 chartaeeous or subiueuibranaceous, shining, the base acute or acuminate, 

 sometimes slightly inequilateral, the apex strongly caudate-acuminate, 

 the acumen about one-third as long as the blade, blunt; nerves 6 to 8 

 on each side of the midrib, faint, spi'eading, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions very obscure; petioles very slender, al)out 5 mm long. Flowers in 

 few-flowered, axillary, solitary cymes, but two or three flowers in a 

 cyme, the peduncles very short, the pedicels slender, 1 cm long. Calyx- 

 teeth ovate, blunt, 0.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 12 mm long, slender, 

 the lobes narrowly oblong, 7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Anthers 2 mm long. 

 Carpels narrow, about 2 mm long; styles 10 mm in length. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Luzoiv, Province of llocos Sur, Mount Bulangao, For. Bur. 14025 Merritt cO 

 Darling, November, 1908, in forests at an altitude of about 1,150 m. 



A species well characterized by its small, very strongly caudate-acuminate 

 leaves, which do not exceed 4 cm in length, and its few-flowered cymes. 



Tabernaemontana linearifolia sp. nov. 



Arbuscula glabra, circiter 4 m alta; foliis chartaceis, linearibus vel 

 anguste lanceolato-linearibus, utrinque angustatis, apice gradatim acum- 

 inatis, usque ad 7 cm longis, 5 ad 8 mm latis; floribus axillaribus, 

 solitariis, longe pedicellatis ; f olliculis oblongis, utrinque angustatis acum- 

 inatisque, circiter 2.5 cm longis. 



A glabrous shrub about 4 m. high. Branches and branehlets slender, 

 terete, gray, shining. Leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, 3 to 



7 cm long, 5 to 8 nun wide, chartaeeous, somewhat shining, olivaceous 

 above when dry, the lower surface paler and somewhat brownish, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, the apex gradually acuminate, the base acute ; lateral 

 nerves distant, indistinct, spreading, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 



2 to 4 mm long. Flow^ers axillary, solitary, white, their peduncles often 



3 cm long, frequently much shorter. Calyx-teeth ovate, acute or obtuse, 

 1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 13 mm long, slender, the lobes oblique, acute, 

 about 7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Carpels lanceolate, narrowed above, 

 3 mm long; styles 6 to 7 mm long. Follicle oblong, orange-yellow, 

 nearly 2.5 cm long, 8 mm in diameter in the middle, acuminately 

 narrowed at both ends, with three faint ridges extending the whole length, 

 the apical portion with five faint ridges : seed solitary, narrowly ellipsoid, 



8 mm long, the groove not prominent. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mancayan, For. Bur. 109J/5 Curran, January, 1909, 

 in open grass-lands in thin pine forests, altitude 1,600 m. 



A species Avell characterized by its very arrow, elongated, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate leaves, its solitary, frequently long-pediceled flowers, and its one- 

 seeded follicles which are acuminatelv narrowed at I)oth ends. 



