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of the midrib, distant, prominent, the reticulations very faint, 

 lax; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long, the base somewhat inflated and 

 clasping the stems. Inflorescence paniculate, axillary, lenticel- 

 late, the peduncles about 15 cm long, dichotomously branched, 

 the flowers somewhat crowded at the ends of the branches, the 

 two elongated primary branches frequently equaling the pe- 

 duncles in length, marked with numerous scars of fallen flowers 

 or branchlets. Flowers large, white, fragrant. Calyx 2 to 3 

 cm long, split nearly to the base into 5, narrowly oblong, erect, 

 obtuse lobes. Corolla-tube about 3 cm long, somewhat con- 

 tracted above, distinctly twisted at and above the insertion of 

 the anthers ; lobes spreading, obtuse, obliquely and broadly ovate, 

 up to 3.5 cm long and 4 cm wide. Anthers narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, base sagittate, about 7 mm long. Ovary of 2 dis- 

 tinct carpels united by the style, surrounded by the fleshy disk. 

 Fruit in pairs, sessile, globose, when fresh smooth, up to 10 cm 

 in diameter, when dry much smaller, wrinkled. Seeds very 

 numerous, rugose, 8 to 10 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Tununi River, along streams. Bur. Sci. 

 1232U Foxworthy, February, 1911 (type) ; Binangonan, Whitford 829, 

 September, 1904; Baler, Bur. Sci. 10668 McGregor, August, 1909: Province 

 of Camarines, Tinambuc, For. Bur. H256 Aguilar, April, 1909. 



A very characteristic species, readily distinguished from the others in 

 the genus by its large flowers and fruits, and especially by its calyx 

 being split nearly to the base into 5, long, narrow lobes. 



TABERNAEMONTANA L. 



TABERNAEMONTANA CORDATA sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 2 m altus, f ructibus immaturis exceptis glaber ; 

 foliis oblongis, usque ad 14 cm longis, acute acuminatis, sessi- 

 libus, basi late cordatis; cymis axillaribus, paucifloris; folliculis 

 maturis glabris, junioribus griseo-puberulis, rubris, oblongis, 

 falcatis, longitudinaliter 5-carinatis; seminibus circiter 15. 



An erect shrub about 2 m high. Branches slender, terete, 

 light-gray. Leaves oblong, sessile, base broad, cordate, apex 

 sharply acuminate, 2 to 4 cm wide, 6 to 14 cm long, chartaceous, 

 glabrous, one of each pair somewhat smaller than the other; 

 nerves 9 or 10 on each side of the midrib. Cymes in the upper 

 axils, short, few-flowered, the flowers often only 2 or 3, ap- 

 parently white, the pedicels slender, about 1.5 cm long. Calyx- 

 tube short, the lobes ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long. Corolla- 

 tube about 1.4 cm long, 1.5 mm in diameter in the middle, 

 the lobes narrowly oblong, falcate, rounded, about 9 mm long, 

 2.5 to 3 mm wide. Calyx-teeth oblong-ovate, acute. Folhces 



