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sliglitly pubescent 5 to 7 toothed, the slender teeth less than 2 mm. long. Corolla 

 white, the tube slender, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter, glabrous 

 outside, pubescent inside above the middle, the lobes o, spreading, 12 mm. long. 

 •4 mm. Avide, obtuse or acute. Stamens 5, tlie filament very short, slender, pubes- 

 cent; anthers linear, 6 mm. long, acuminate, the base sagittate. Style glabrous, 

 the stigma cleft into 2 flattened arms. Fruit subglobose or ovoid, about 1 cm. 

 in diameter, 2-celled. Seeds triquetrous, black, 3 to 5 in each cell, embedded -m 

 a pulpy mass. 



(1751, 2730 (type) Borden) August, March; (1251 Whitford) May; (394:5 

 Merrill) March; (7001 Elmer) November; (6006 Leibcr;/) July. In forests 

 100 to 400 m. The flowers very fragrant. Apjiarontly closely related to R. longi- 

 flora Lam. 



13. GARDENIA Ellis. 



1. G. barnesii Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 (1904) 47. 



(163 Barnes) January; (2788 Meyer) February; (1235 Whitford) May; 

 (2916 Borden) March; (6714 Elmer) November. In forests 100 to 500 m. 

 Endemic. 



2. G. sp. 



(1479 Ahern's collector) August: (2041 Borden). In thickets on bluffs by 

 the seashore, in fruit only. Considered by ^Ir. Elmer to be a distinct, unde- 

 scribed species of Gardenia, but the material, witli fruit only, is too imperfect to 

 warrant a description. 



14. TRICALYSIA A. Rich. 



1. T. sp. 



(1061 Whitford) Jantiary; (1374. 2928 Borden) July, March. In forests 130 

 to 500 ni., considered by Mr. Elmer to be a distinct undescribed species, but the 

 material is too imperfect to warrant description at this time. 



2. T. sp. 



(1507 Ahern's collector) July; (6900 Elmer) November; (1306 Whitford) 

 Jime; (3113 Meyer) May. In forests on exposed ridges above 900 m. A species 

 apparently closely related to and possibly identical with Diplospora singularis 

 Korth. Randia fascicvliflnra Elmer in herb., in part. 



15. PLECTRONIA Linn. 



1. P. peduncularis (Cav.) Elmer, in lieib. Canthium pedunculare Cav. Icon. 

 5 (1799) 21. /. 'i3(i. 



(1221 Borden) June; (AOl Whitford ) .Tune; (25^5 Merrill) June. In thickets 

 below 100 m. Endemic. 



2. P. mitis (Bartl.) Canihinm, mite Bartl. in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 474. 

 (2234 Meyer) December; (7020 Elmer) November. In thickets below 100 m. 



Endemic. 



3. P. umbellata (Bartl.) K. Sch. in Engl, und rnintl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4 

 (1891) 4: 92. Myonima iimhellafa Bartl. Canthium villarii Vidal. Canthium 

 gynochthodes Baill. 



(1807, 1808 Borden) September: (1452. 1456, 1459 Ahern's collector) July. 

 In forests 100 to 200 m. Endemic. 



Bentham and Hooker f. are frequently cited as tiie autliority for the transfer 

 of this species to Plectronia, but they only indicated and did not actually make 

 the transfer. K. Schumann is the proper authority. 



4. Plectronia viridis Merrill, sp. nov. 



A small tree, 10 m. high or less. Branches slender, terete, glabrous, - ligjit 

 brown or gray. Leaves opposite, glabrous, subcoriaceous, elliptical-ovate to ovate 

 or elliptical-lanceolate, dull or sliglitly sliining. pale green when dry, 6 to 11 cm. 



