PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 329 



OLEACEAE. 



LIGUSTRUM Linn. 



LIGUSTRUM PUBINERVE Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1850) 314. 

 Visiania pubinervis Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1856) 548. 

 Ligustrum cumingianum Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris II 2 (1879) 

 28; Rolfe in Journ, Bot. 23 (1885) 214; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (1885) 125; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 116. 



There seems to be but a single species represented in the Philippines, 

 although there is some variation in the material before me. The^type 

 of Blume's species was from the Philippines, collector not indicated, and 

 the leaves are described as "in nervo medio subtus pubescentibus." Most 

 of our material has the leaves entirely glabrous, but a few specimens from 

 northern Luzon agree with Blume's description as to the pubescent 

 midrib: Elmer 6031, Vanoverbergh 78, Bur. Sci. 5998 Ramos, and For. 

 Bur. 15993 Bacani. Eighteen other specimens from northern and central 

 Luzon, and from Mindoro, agree with the above specimens in all essential 

 characters, but have entirely glabrous leaves. Unless distinctions are 

 exceedingly finely drawn, but a single species is represented. It is with 

 no hesitation that I reduce Ligustrum cumingianum Decne. (1879), to 

 L. pubinerve Blume (1851). It is very closely allied to some species of 

 southern China (Henry 7879 E) , and of India; in fact Miquel has queried 

 if it is not the same as Ligustrum pubescens DC. 



Doctor H. Hallier has kindly examined the type of Blume's species in 

 the Rijks Herbarium, Leiden, which is indicated as "ex herb. Delessert," 

 no collector given, and considers that Ligustrum cumingianuTn Decne. is 

 only a more glabrous variety of L. pubinerve, the type of the latter and 

 cotype of the former differing only in the pubescent midribs of the leaves 

 of L. pubinerve. 



LOGANIACEAE. 



GENIOSTOMA Forst. 

 GENIOSTOMA STENOPHYLLUM sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva usque ad 4 m altus, glaber vel ramulis 

 junioribus petiolisque minute pubescentibus; foliis anguste 

 elliptico-oblongis vel lanceolatis, chartaceis, acuminatis, basi 

 acutis, 2 ad 6 cm longis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5 vel 6, subtus 

 prominentibus, anastomosantibus ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, 

 breviter pedicellatis ; fructibus ovoideo-ellipticis, circiter 8 mm 

 longis. 



A shrub or small tree reaching a height of 4 m, glabrous except 

 the slightly pubescent young branchlets and petioles. Branches 

 pale-gray, the branchlets slender. Leaves chartaceous, narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, 2 to 6 cm long, 0.5 to 2 cm wide, 

 slightly falcate, acuminate, base acute, pale when dry, not turning 

 blackish, shining ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing in a distinct, looped, 



