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densely pubescent inflorescence, the bracts broadly ovate, pubes- 
cent, obtuse to acute, 2 mm in diameter. Calyx 8 mm long, 
narrowly funnel-shaped, pubescent, the limb produced above the 
ovary, usually 6-toothed, the teeth triangular-ovate, acute, about 
1 mm long. Corolla-tube glabrous, 6 to 7 cm long, slightly 
widened upward, 3 mm in diameter or less; lobes spreading, 
elliptic, up to 2.5 cm long, 2 cm wide, broadly rounded. Anthers 
inserted in the upper part of the corolla-tube, included, linear, 
1 cm long. Fruit black when dry, subglobose to ovoid, up to 
2.5 cm in diameter, the pericarp crustaceous, glabrous, or when 
young more or less ferruginous-pubescent near the apex. Seeds 
numerous, black, irregular, suborbicular to rounded-triangular, 
more or less compressed, about 8 mm in diameter. 
Negros, vicinity of Cadiz and the Gimagaan River, For. Bur. 4-204, 4245, 
5569, 7255 (type) 7305 Everett, flowering in April and May, For. Bur. 
19089, 22669 Curran, Bur. Sci. 7S33 Celestino, Whitford 1613. 
A species very similar to Gardenia merrillii Elm., of Borneo, Palawan, 
the Calamianes Islands, and Mindoro, differing in its ferruginous-pubescent 
inflorescences and calyces, and in its leaves being minutely but distinctly 
puberulent on the lower surface. 
GARDENIA PUBIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Species G. morindaefoliae Elm. affinis, dilfert ramulis in- 
florescentiis foliisque dense molliter pubescentibus. 
A shrub or small tree, the branches terete, reddish-brown or 
grayish, glabrous, the branchlets densely and softly pubescent. 
Leaves ovate, subcoriaceous, black when dry, somewhat shining, 
7 to 12 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, acuminate, base rounded to 
acute, softly pubescent with short hairs, the upper surface 
sparingly, the lower densely so, the pubescence denser on the 
midrib and nerves ; petioles densely pubescent, 1 cm long or less ; 
lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, fairly prom- 
inent. Cymes in the uppermost axils among the crowded 
leaves, pubescent, 2 cm long or less, few-flowered. Flowers 
5-merous. Calyx about 7 mm long, somewhat pubescent, nar- 
rowed below to the acute base, the limb produced, with 5, nar- 
row, acuminate, 1.3 mm long teeth. Corolla-tube 6 mm long, 
3 mm in diameter, cylindric, pubescent on both surfaces, the lobes 
spreading, imbricate, broadly ovate, apparently acuminate, at 
least 5 mm long. Young fruit ellipsoid, 2 cm long, black and 
shining when dry, glabrous, crowned by the persistent calyx- 
tube, 1-celled. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Mati, Bur. Sci. 19343 Wester, August 19, 
1912, near the seashore. 
Manifestly very closely allied to Gardenia morindaefolia Elm., which it 
greatly resembles, differing in its dense soft pubescence. 
