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dry, terete or somewhat angled. Leaves narrowly oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, brittle, blackish when dry, shining, 
12 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, acuminate, base acute; 
lateral nerves obscure, slender, about 10 on each side of the 
midrib, visible on the upper surface but obsolete or nearly so on 
the lower surface, reticulations obsolete; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm 
long ; stipules about 4 mm long. Flowers large, white, fragrant, 
5-merous, sessile, fascicled, axillary, 3 to 5 in each fascicle, the 
fascicles subtended by several, imbricate, triangular-ovate, acute 
to obtuse, submembranaceous, prominently nerved, 6 to 7 mm 
long bracts. Calyx tube terete, obovoid, glabrous, about 4 mm 
long and wide, the lobes ovate, rounded, minutely ciliate on the 
margins. Corolla tube slender, cylindric, about 10 cm long and 
2 to 3 mm in diameter, the lobes lanceolate, spreading or re- 
curved, acute or acuminate, 4 to 5 cm long and about 5 mm wide. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23^92 Ramos, 
August 1, 1915. 
This most striking and characteristic species does not resemble any 
species of the genus known to me, and is strongly characterized by its 
obscurely nei’ved, coriaceous leaves, and very long, slender, fascicled, 
axillary, sessile flowers, the fascicles subtended by several imbricate persist- 
ent bracts. 
MORIN DA Linnaeus 
MORINDA PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. 
Frutex alte scandens, glaber; foliis ellipticis, usque ad 18 cm 
longis, in siccitate subnigris, nitidis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus valde prominentibus, subtus in 
axillis leviter barbatis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, umbellatis, 
capitulis numerosis, 25 ad 30, fructibus globosis, longe pedun- 
culatis, circiter 1 cm diametro, pedunculis usque ad 4 cm longis. 
A scandent shrub, apparently of large size, glabrous except the 
slightly bearded axils of the veins on the lower surface of the 
leaves. Branches stout, wrinkled when dry, pale-brownish, 
somewhat 4-angled, 6 to 8 mm in diameter. Leaves elliptic, 
blackish when dry, subcoriaceous, shining, 15 to 18 cm long, 7 
to 9 cm wide, acuminate, base somewhat acute; lateral nerves 
about 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower 
surface, the ultimate reticulations distinct, rather close; petioles 
about 3 cm long, black. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, from 
25 to 30 heads in each umbel, the heads, in fruit, black when 
dry, globose, about 1 cm in diameter, each composed of 25 or 
more individual fruits grown together in a somewhat fleshy 
mass, the pedunclesjup to 4 cm in length. 
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