120 MKUUILL A.\l> KOLFi:. 



Jasminum dol ichopetalum Merrill i!c Rolfe sp. nov. § I'liifoJioliild. 



Sc-andens. i:l:iliriiiii ; I'oliis lancoolatis vel an^'ustc olliptic-o-lanceolatis, 

 glabris, inoiuhranaceis vel cliarlaceis, siibti-iiUTviis, l)asi cuneatis. apice 

 scnsim aiigustc candato-acniiiinatis: infloreseentiis toniiinalihus. paiui- 

 Horis, hrc'viU'i- piMliiiiculatis : llnrihus fascicnilatis vel uiiiliellal is ; t-alycis 

 laeiniis 5. angustc laneeolatii^, us(nie ad 1 mm longis; corollae tuho lo mm 

 lonfi^o, lac-iniis 10, linearibus, aeuminatis, usque ad 3 cm longis, 1.5 ad 2 

 iiiiii latis. 



Glabrous throughout, seandent, the hranches slender, smooth, brown. 

 Leaves lanceolate to narrowly elli|)tical-lanceolate. meml)ranons or 

 chartaceous. tbe base cuneate, the apex gradually and narrowly caudate- 

 acuminate, (i to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, the midrib prominent 

 beneath ami with a pair of suhmarginal basal nerves, anastomosing with 

 the few distant lateral nerves, tlie reticulations very lax. Inflorescence 

 terminal, few-flowered, the flowers white, 2 to 4, fasciculate or umbellate 

 at the ends of the branches, the pedicels 3 to 3.5 cm long. Calyx short, 

 the lobes 5, about 1 mm long, the corolla-tube al)out 13 mm long, slender, 

 the lobes 10, very narrow and elongated, about 3 cm long, 1.5 to 2 mm 

 wide. Anthers oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, 3 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. !l!).j Ramon, June, 190(5. 



A very characteristic species, distin^uislied by its narrow, lono-acuminate, glab- 

 rous leaves, few-flowered terminal inlioresc-ence. lono- j)edicels and very long 

 corolla lobes. 



LOGANIACE^<:. 



MITRASACME l.al.ill. 



Mitrasacme nudicaulis Iteiiiw. e\ liiuine I'.ijilr. ( IS^tJ) S4!); A. DC. I'rodr. 

 9 (184.5) 12: ( laike in Hook. f. V\. I'.rit. lud. 4 ( 1,SS:{) SO; Forbes c^ lienisl. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. IJot. 26 (188!)) 117. 



Luzon, ]3istrict of Lepanto. Mount Data, Merrill '/.'iSC. 



New to tbe Arcbi[)e]ago. and dill'ering from tbe common and widely dilfnsed 

 Mitrufiariiic tilsi)ioiflcN in that its ie;ives are (■(inlined lo a basal rosette. 



Eastern India to soutbern Cbina and Malaya. 



(;entiaxa(^io.e. 



HOPPEA Wiild. 



Hoppea dichotoma Willd. in (les. Nal. I'r. I'.eil. Neiie Schrill. 3 ( isul) i:{."): 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Kl. T-rit. hid. 4 ( 1 ss:{ ) l»i(i. 



Luzon. I'rosinee ot lleii^uei. I.oo. i.olnr 'lU'i',. 



A mo>l interesting^ ad<lititin lo our kno\vleil;^e of the .\>iatie element in the 

 Horn of northern iai/.on, tiie genus eonlaininn l>ut two species, liolli previo\i-ly 

 known onh from I'.ritisli India. 



