NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
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A shrub about 2 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches and 
branchlets slender, terete, pale-gray, somewhat shining. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5 to 4 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, 
chartaceous or submembranaceous, shining, the base acute or acuminate, 
sometimes slightly inequilateral, the apex strongly caudate-acuminate, 
the acumen about one- third as long as the blade, blunt; nerves 6 to 8 
on each side of the midrib, faint, spreading, anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions very obscure; petioles very slender, about 5 mm long. Flowers in 
few-flowered, axillary, solitary cymes, but two or three flowers in a 
cyme, the peduncles very short, the pedicels slender, 1 cm long. Calyx- 
teeth ovate, blunt, 0.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 12 mm long, slender, 
the lobes narrowly oblong, 7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Anthers 2 mm long. 
Carpels narrow, about 2 mm long; styles 10 mm in length. Fruit 
unknown. 
Luzon, Province of llocos Sur, Mount Bulangao, For. Bur. 14025 Merritt cC- 
Darling, November, 1908, in forests at an altitude of about 1,150 m. 
A species well characterized by its small, very strongly caudate-acuminate 
leaves, which do not exceed 4 cm in length, and its few-flowered cymes. 
Tabernaemontana linearifolia sp. nov. 
Arbuscula glabra, circiter 4 m alta; foliis chartaceis, linearibus vel 
anguste laneeolato-linearibus, utrinque angustatis, apice gradatim acum- 
inatis, usque ad 7 cm longis, 5 ad 8 mm latis; floribus axillaribus, 
solitariis, longe pedicellatis ; folliculis oblongi's, utrinque angustatis acum- 
inatisque, circiter 2.5 cm longis. 
A glabrous shrub about 4 m high. Branches and branchlets slender, 
terete, gray, shining. Leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, 3 to 
7 cm long, 5 to 8 mm wide, chartaceous, somewhat shining, olivaceous 
above when dry, the lower surface paler and somewhat brownish, nar- 
rowed at both ends, the apex gradually acuminate, the base acute ; lateral 
nerves distant, indistinct, spreading, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 
2 to 4 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, white, their peduncles often 
3 cm long, frequently much shorter. Calyx-teeth ovate, acute or obtuse, 
1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 13 mm long, slender, the lobes oblique, acute, 
about 7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Carpels lanceolate, narrowed above, 
3 mm long; styles 6 to 7 mm long. Follicle oblong, orange-yellow, 
nearly 2.5 cm long, 8 mm in diameter in the middle, acuminately 
narrowed at both ends, with three faint ridges extending the whole length, 
the apical portion with five faint ridges; seed solitary, narrowly ellipsoid, 
8 mm long, the groove not prominent. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mancayan, For. Bur. 10945 Curran, January, 1909, 
in open grass-lands in thin pine forests, altitude 1,600 m. 
A species well characterized by its very arrow, elongated, linear or linear- 
lanceolate leaves, its solitary, frequently long-pediceled flowers, and its one- 
seeded follicles which are acuminately narrowed at both ends. 
