NEW Oil NOTEWOUTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VT. 237 
glabroiiSj shining, ovoid, 1.5 to 2 cm long, somewhat flattened on the two 
inner sidcs^ apparently three in each fruit. 
Luzox, Province of Rizal, Antipole, Merrill 1710, March, 1903; Santaiulor, 
Jiur. Sci. 3270 Ramos, June, 1907: Province of Tayabas (Infanta), M'hitjord 
821, September, 1904. Tlie same species is apj)arently represented by the follow- 
ing specimens in Herb. Kew: Cuming 1J,68; VuJal 1112, 2SS0, SSI'}, an.l l.ohcr 
5213, all from the Philippines. 
The only representative of tlie genus known from the Pliilippines, about 12 
species being known from tropical America, one from Queensland and one from 
Mada^scar. The material available is not sufficient to draw np a complete 
diagnosis, flowers being immature and fruit opened, so that it is impossible to 
describe the entire fruit. 
AQUIFOLIACE^. 
ILEX Linn. 
I lex g rac i I i pes sp. nov. 
Arbor parva^ 3 ad 4 m alta, glabra; foliis oblongo-ovatis vel elliptico- 
ovatis^ membranaceis, acuminatis, margine apiculato-denticulatis ; floribus 
3- ad 5-meris^ solitariis vel fasciculatis^ axillaribus, longe pedimculatis ; 
pedunculis ca. 1 cm longis^ fruetiferis longioribus. 
A small tree 3 to 4 m high, glabrous, the branches and brauchlets 
slender, terete, reddish-brown, lenticellate. Lca\es oblong-ovate to ellip- 
tical-ovate, membranaceous, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 1 to 3 cm wide, opaque or 
obscurely minutely punctate, shining, base acute, the apex rather long- 
acuminate, the acumen apiculate, the margins regularly apiculate-den- 
tieulate; nerves 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, 
anastomosing; petioles slender, 5 mm long or less. Flowers solitary or 
in 2- to 4-flowered fascicles in the axils of the leaves, long-pedicclled, 
the pedicels about 1 cm long, much elongated in fruit. Calyx about 2 
mm in diameter, 3- to 5-lobed, the lobes orbicular-reniform, 0.5 mm 
long the margins shortly obscurely ciliate. Corolla lobes 3 to 5, im- 
bricate, orbicular, rounded, about 1.5 mm long, the tube 0.5 mm long. 
Stamens 3 to 5, inserted on the coiolla and alternating with the lobes, 
the filaments and anthers each 0.8 mm long. Ovary usually 5-cellc\I, with 
a single' pendulous ovule in each cell; stigma capitate. Fruit subglobose 
or ovoid, 5 to 6 jmii long, with about 15 longitudinal ridges, usually 
with 5 nutlets, the peduncles 2 to 3 cm long. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, WilUains 10J,1, ilay, 1904; Bur. Set. 2839 Mcarns, 
April, 1907; Elmer; Loher 5129: Province of Zambaies, Mount Tapulao, For. Bur, 
SOGO Curran tC Mcrrltt, December, 1007: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 
Whitford 4U: Province of Ri/al, Bosoboso, Bur. 8ci. 2115, 2^77 Ramos, February, 
May, 1907. 
A very characteristic species readily recognizable by its solitary or fascicled, 
long-pedicelled flowers, very hmg-pediceHed fruits and membranaceous leaves which 
are apiculate-denticulate. The flowers are sometimes 3- to 5 morons on the 
same plants. 
