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that species, and even more closely allied to D. insignis Merr., differing from 
the latter especially in its differently shaped leaves, which are broad and rounded 
at the base, not decurrent-acuminate, its much longer petioles, and more numerous 
leaf-veins. 
EMBELIA Burm. 
1. Embelia coriacea Wall. Cat. (1829) no. 2314; A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 87; 
Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich 9 (1902) 313. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 671, 1069, and three 
sheets without number, September-October, 1906, 1907. The specimens agree per- 
fectly with Maingay 1018, and with 5056 Dr. King's Collector, from the Malay 
Peninsula, in our herbarium. 
Penang and Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo; not previously reported' from 
the Philippines. 
OLEACE^E. 
JASMINUM Linn. 
Jasminum cumingii sp. nov. 
Frutex ut videtnr scandens, glaber, inflorescentiis obscure puberulis 
exceptis ; f oliis oppositis unif oliolatis, ovatis, acuminatis, nitidis, basi late 
rotundatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6 ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, longe 
pedunculatis, 5-floris; calycis lobis 4 vel 5, subulatis, corollae lobis 6, 
oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, quam tubus paullo brevioribus. 
A shrub, apparently scandent, glabrous throughout except the obscurely 
puberulent inflorescence. Branches' terete, brown, smooth. Leaves sim- 
ple, opposite, ovate, 7 to 11 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, membranaceous, 
brown and shining when dry, the base broad, rounded, the apex rather 
sharply acuminate; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 
anastomosing, the reticulations very lax; petiole about 1.5 cm long, 
jointed. Cymes axillary, solitary, the peduncles rather slender, 3 to 7 
cm long, each with 5 flowers near the apex, rarely with an additional 
pair of flowers at about the middle of the peduncle, the bracteoles 
setaceous, 3 to 5 mm long, the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx cup- 
shaped, about- 4 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, slightly puberulent, with 
4 or 5 setaceous, slender, 0.5 to 0.8 mm long teeth. Corolla-tube 1.5 cm 
long, the lobes 6, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 
12 mm long, 2.5 to 2.8 mm wide. Anthers 4 mm long. Style 11 mm 
long. 
Philippines, without definite locality, Cuming 1565. 
A species well characterized by its long : peduneled, axillary, solitary, few- 
flowered, slightly puberulent inflorescence, the corolla-lobes nearly as long as the 
corolla-tube. The form has not been rediscovered as yet in the Philippines. 
Jasminum tripl inervium sp. nov. 
, Frutex scandens glaber; foliis oppositis, simplicibus, chartaeeis, 
oblongo-lanceolatis vel anguste oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, 
apice rotundatis vel obtusis, rariter acutis, basi tenuiter triplinerviis ; 
