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shortly, broadly, and obtusely acuminate, when dry shining, the 
upper surface pale-olivaceous, the lower very much paler ; lateral 
nerves about 14 on each side of the midrib, spreading, evanes- 
cent or subevanescent near the margins, sometimes obscurely 
anastomosing, the reticulations subobsolete; petioles 1 cm long 
or less, inflated at the base on the upper side. Peduncles axil- 
lary, apparently few-flowered (1-flowered ?), in fruit 3 to 4 cm 
long. Flowers not seen. Follicles two, free to the very base, 
oblong-lanceolate in outline, straight, not at all curved, acute 
at the base, acute or somewhat rostrate-acuminate at the apex, 
about 6 cm long, 1.3 to 1.5 cm in diameter, 6-angled, or better 
with 3 longitudinal, narrow wings, and 3 alternating, less 
prominent ridges, the pericarp coriaceous, greenish-olivaceous 
when dry, shining, minutely verruculose. Seeds about 24 in 
each follicle, irregularly oblong-obovoid, about 7 mm long. 
Panay, Capiz, Bur. Sci. 212H Escritor, June, 1913. 
The species presents no particularly striking vegetative characters by 
which it may be distinguished from some other species. Its follicles, 
however, are very distinct in form, being quite different from those of 
any other species known to me except the following one. They are straight, 
not at all falcate as is usually the case in this genus, free to the very base, 
oblong-lanceolate in outline, acuminate, and with 3 longitudinal, narrow, 
thick wings, and 3 alternating, less prominent ridges. 
TABERNAEMONTANA M I N DANAENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber 2 ad 4 m altus ; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-lanceo- 
altis ad late oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, utrin- 
que angustatis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 9 ; cymis axillaribus, brevibus, paucifloris ; folliculis rec- 
tis vel leviter curvatis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, acumi- 
natis, 4 ad 5 cm longis, circiter 1 cm diametro. 
A glabrous shrub about 4 m high. Branches terete, slender, 
gray, not lenticellate, the younger ones sometimes slightly com- 
pressed. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate to broadly 
oblong-oblanceolate, 7 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, narrowed 
upward to the sharply acuminate apex, the acumen straight or 
somewhat falcate, somewhat apiculate, and to the cuneate base; 
lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, slender but 
prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations fine; petioles 
4 to 8 mm long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered, in anthesis 4 
cm long or less, somewhat elongated in fruit, the immature buds 
up to 1.5 cm long, the pedicels less than 1 cm in length. Follicles 
usually in pairs, oblong to lanceolate, 4 to 5 cm long, about 1 
cm in diameter, straight or somewhat curved, with 4 rather 
prominent ridges and 2 less prominent ones, red, the base 
