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that species, and even more closely allied to D. insiynis Merr., differing from 

 the latter especially in its differently shaped leaves, which are broad and rounded 

 at the base, not decurrent-acuminate, its much longer petioles, and more numerous 



leaf-veins. 



EMBELIA Burm. 



1. Embelia coriacea Wall. Cat. (1829) no. 2314; A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 87; 

 Mez in Engl. Pllanzenreich 9 (1902) 313. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 671, 1069, and three 

 sheets without number, September-October. 1906, 1907. The specimens agree per- 

 fectly with Maingay 1018, and with 5056 Dr. King's Collector, from the. Malay 

 Peninsula, in our herbarium. 



Penang and Malacca, Sumatra, .Tava, and Borneo; not previously reported from 

 the Philippines. 



OLEACE^. 



JASMINUM Linn. 



Jasminum cumingii sp. nov. 



Fnitex ut videtur seanden.-:;, glabcr, infloresceutiis obscure puberulis 

 exceptis ; foliis oppositis unif oliolatis, ovatis, acuminatis, nitidis, basi late 

 rotimdatis, nervis iitrinque 5 vel 6; infiorescentiis axillaribus, lorige 

 pedunculatis, 5-fioris; calycis lobis -i vel 5, siibulatis, coroUae lobis 6, 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, quam tubus paullo brevioribus. 



A shi-ub, apparently scandent, glabrous throughout except the obscurely 

 puberulent inflorescence. Branches terete, brown, smooth. Leaves sim- 

 ple, opposite, ovate, 7 to 11 cm long, 4 to 7 cm- wide, membranaceous, 

 brown and shining when dry, the base broad, rounded, the apex rather 

 sharply acuminate; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations very lax; petiole about 1.5 cm long, 

 jointed. Cymes axillary, solitary, the peduncles rather slender, 3 to 7 

 cm long, eacli with 5 flowers near the apex, rarely with an additional 

 pair of flowers at about the middle of the peduncle, the bracteoles 

 setaceous, 3 to 5 mm long, the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, about 4 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, slightly puberulent, with 

 4 or 5 setaceous, slender, 0.5 to 0.8 mm long teeth. Corolla-tube 1.5 cm 

 long, the lobes 6, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 

 12. mm long, 2.5 to 2.8 mm wide. Anthers 4 mm long. Style 11 mm 

 long. 



Philippines, without definite locality, Cuming 1565. 



A species well characterized by its long-peduncled, axillary, solitary, few- 

 flowered, slightly puberulent inflorescence, the corolla-lobes nearly as long as the 

 corolla-tube. The form has not been rediscovered as yet in the Philippines. 



Jasminum triplinervium sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens glaber; foliis oppositis, simplicibus, chartaceis, 

 oblongo-lanceolatis vel anguste oblongo-ovatis, usqhe ad 15 cm longis, 

 apice rotundatis vel obtusis, rariter acutis, basi tenuiter triplinerviis ; 



