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and the Bornean species is represented in our collectidns by 
several recently collected specimens. The present species dif- 
fers from Cowiea borneensis Wernh. in its deeply cleft calyces ; 
its ferruginous indumentum; its corolla being glabrous, not 
bearded inside; and in its stipules being united into a distinct 
tube in the lower one-half. It is furthermore an erect shrub. 
In this connection, Cowiea borneensis Wernh. is described as 
scandent, but the labels on all of our recently collected Bornean 
material indicate an erect shrub. 
IXORA Linnaeus 
IXORA MYRIANTHA sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, usque ad 8 m alta, glaberrima; foliis 
membranaceis ad chartaceis, 9 ad 17 cm longis, oblongis ad 
oblongo-ellipticis, acuminatis, basi plerumque acutis, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 10, subtus perspicuis, foliis superioribus plerum- 
que brevissime petiolatis, basi late rotundatis; inflorescentiis 
pedunculatis, multifloris, 4 ad 8 cm latis, floribus albidis, 
confertis, bracteis bracteolisque lanceolatis, 1 mm longis; calycis 
1.2 mm longis, lobis acutis, brevibus; corollae tubo 12 mm longo, 
lobis late lanceolatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 5 mm 
longis. 
An entirely glabrous shrub or small tree reaching a height 
of 8 m, the branches and branchlets rather slender, usually 
brownish, terete. Leaves membranaceous to chartaceous, oblong 
to oblong-elliptic, 9 to 17 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, usually 
brownish when dry, somewhat shining, narrowed upward to 
the blunt-acuminate apex and below to the acute base; lateral 
nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, rather distant, 
arched-anastomosing, prominent on the lower surface, the re- 
ticulations lax, distinct; petioles 10 to 12 mm long; stipules 
lanceolate-acuminate from an ovate base, 5 to 6 mm long. The 
* upper pair of leaves subtending the inflorescences are in general 
Similar to the normal leaves but are subsessile or shortly pet- 
ioled and with broadly rounded bases. Inflorescences terminal, 
peduncled, many-flowered, 4 to 8 cm wide, the peduncles 4 to 
5 cm in length, the bracts subtending the branches narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 7mm long. Flowers rather crowded, 
white, their pedicels about 2 mm long, the bracts and brac- 
teoles lanceolate, acuminate, 1 mm in length. Calyx glabrous, 
cup-shaped, 1.2 mm long, 4-toothed, the teeth triangular, acute 
or acuminate, about one-third as long as the tube. Corolla 
