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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1921 
Hainan, Loh-hoe, Miss M. M. Moninger 188, January, 1921, 
in the mountains, altitude about 400 meters. 
Although the fruits are unknown, this species apparently 
belongs in the section Haplotrichium, and in this section is one 
of the very few species with broad obtuse calyx segments. It 
is further characterized by its slenderly long-peduncled, few- 
flowered cymes. 
RUBIACEAE 
GARDENIA Ellis 
GARDENIA STENOPHYLLA sp. nov. 
Species G. augustae (Linn.) Merr. (G. floridae Linn.) affinis, 
differt foliis anguste lanceolatis ad lineari-lanceolatis, 4 ad 8 cm 
longis, 4 ad 10 mm latis. 
• An erect glabrous shrub about 1 m high, the branchlets slen- 
der, grayish. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 4 
to 8 cm long, 4 to 10 mm wide, subcoriaceous, olivaceous, shin- 
ing, equally narrowed to the cuneate base and the blunt- 
acuminate apex; lateral nerves 9 to 13 on each side of the 
midrib ; petioles up to 3 mm long, or leaves subsessile. Flowers 
white, fragrant, solitary. Calyx tube about 1 cm long, 5-ridged, 
base cuneate, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, in anthesis about 
12 mm long. Corolla tube slender, 4 cm long, cylindric, the 
lobes spreading, obi ong-ob ovate, inequilateral, 2.5 cm long. 
Fruits narrowly ellipsoid, about 2 cm long, crowned by the 
persistent erect calyx lobes, which in fruit are about 1.8 cm long 
and 1.5 mm wide. 
Hainan, Loh-hoe, Miss M. M. Moninger 152, May, 1919, in 
flower: Kwangtung Province, Yamchow, K. K. Ts’oong 1916 — 
Canton Christian College 3777, June 6, 1918, with the local 
name- muk ak tsz. 
This species grows on river banks and is closely allied to the 
common Gardenia augusta (Linn.) Merr., differing essentially 
in its very narrow leaves. 
Beccari 1 has discussed the stenophyllous plants of Borneo 
listing species of the genera Croton, Nauclea, Tetranthera, Anti - 
desma, Pinanga, Osmoxylon, Arundina, Garcinia, Erycibe, 
Eugenia, Psychotria, Saurauia, and Millettia which occur along 
the banks of rivers and torrents. In the Philippines, in ad- 
dition to representatives of some of the genera Beccari lists, 
we have species of Randia, Buxus, Atlantia, and Excoecaria 
growing in similar habitats and presenting similar stenophyllous 
1 Nelle foreste di Borneo (1902) 523. 
