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OLEACEAE. 
LIGUSTRUM Linn. 
LIGUSTRUM PUBINERVE Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1850) 314. 
Visiania pubinervis Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1856) 548. 
Ligustrum cumingianum Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris II 2 (1879) 
28; Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 214; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. 
(1885) 125; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 116. 
There seems to be but a single species represented in the Philippines, 
although there is some variation in the material before me. The type 
of Blume’s species was from the Philippines, collector not indicated, and 
the leaves are described as “in nervo medio subtus pubescentibus.” Most 
of our material has the leaves entirely glabrous, but a few specimens from 
northern Luzon agree with Blume’s description as to the pubescent 
midrib; Elmer 6031, Vanoverbergh 78, Bur. Sci. 5998 Ramos, and For. 
Bur. 15993 Bacani. Eighteen other specimens from northern and central 
Luzon, and from Mindoro, agree with the above specimens in all essential 
characters, but have entirely glabrous leaves. Unless distinctions are 
exceedingly finely drawn, but a single species is represented. It is with 
no hesitation that I reduce Ligustrum cumingianum Decne. (1879), to 
L. pubinerve Blume (1851). It is very closely allied to some species of 
southern China {Henry 7879 E) , and of India; in fact Miquel has queried 
if it is not the same as Ligustrum pubescens DC. 
Doctor H. Hallier has kindly examined the type of Blume’s species in 
the Rijks Herbarium, Leiden, which is indicated as “ex herb. Delessert,” 
no collector given, and considers that Ligustrum cumingianum Decne. is 
only a more glabrous variety of L. pubinerve, the type of the latter and 
cotype of the former differing only in the pubescent midribs of the leaves 
of L. pubinerve. 
LOGANIACEAE. 
GENIOSTOMA Forst. 
GENIOSTOMA STENOPHYLLUM sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva usque ad 4 m altus, glaber vel ramulis 
junioribus petiolisque minute pubescentibus; foliis anguste 
elliptico-oblongis vel lanceolatis, chartaceis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis, 2 ad 6 cm longis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5 vel 6, subtus 
prominentibus, anastomosantibus ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, 
breviter pedicellatis ; fructibus ovoideo-ellipticis, circiter 8 mm 
longis. 
A shrub or small tree reaching a height of 4 m, glabrous except 
the slightly pubescent young branchlets and petioles. Branches 
pale-gray, the branchlets slender. Leaves chartaceous, narrowly 
elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, 2 to 6 cm long, 0.5 to 2 cm wide, 
slightly falcate, acuminate, base acute, pale when dry, not turning 
blackish, shining ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing in a distinct, looped. 
