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obscurely pubescent, the pedicels slender, 1 cm. long, ebracteolate. Calyx 3 nun. 

 long, minutely pubescent outside, the teeth 4. short. Corolla white, straight or 

 often curved, nearly 3 cm. long, slender, glabrous on the outside, the 4 broadly 

 linear lobes spreading, obtuse, S mm. long. Stamens 4, inserted on the throat 

 of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers linear. 12 mm. long, sagittate at 

 the base. Style slender, glabrous except for the puberulous exserted portion, 

 2 cm. longer than the corolla tube. Fruit 5 mm. in diameter, globose, glabrous, 

 black and strongly wrinkled when dry. 



( 1369, 20.37 Borden) July, October, 1904; (2627 Meyer) February, 1905; (6788 

 Elmer) November, 1!K)4 (type). Also No. 574 Whit ford, Sariaya, Province of 

 Tayabas, Luzon. August, 1004. 



18. IXORA Linn. 



1. I. coccinea Linn.; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. End. 3 (1880) 145. 



(1270 Whitford) .May; ((HIS Leiberg) July; (1403 Ahern'a collector) July; 

 (2200 Meyer) December. In thickets near the seashore. British India and 

 Malaya. 



2. I. cumingiana Yidal. l'han. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 183, ex deser. 



(1473, 14S7, 1400 Ahern'a collector) July, August; (1772, 1038 Borden) 

 August, October; (2242, 3015 M eyer) .May; (3174,3202 Merrill) October; (0058, 

 0,808 Elmer) November; (207 Copchind) January; (31. 54 Whitford) April; 

 (0104 Leiberg) July. Abundant in thickets and forests 50 to 250 m. Endemic. 

 The above specimens were all identified by Mr. Elmer as Ixora barbata Roxb., 

 but differ from that species in the glabrous, not barbate corolla throats. The 

 vegetative characters are very similar in both species. 



3. I. macrophylla Parti, in DC. 1'rodr. 4 (1830) 487, ex deser. 



(013, 1759 Borden) April, August; (2011 Meyer) February; (6094 Leiberg) 

 July; (402 Topping) May; (1437 Ahern'a collector) August; (0728 Elmer) 

 November; (2503, 3145 Merrill) June, October. Abundant in thickets and 

 forests, ascending to 500 m. Endemic. 



The above specimens were identified by Mr. Elmer as l.roni cumingiana Yidal. 

 but agree more closely with the description of /. macrophylla Bartl. 



19. WEBERA Schreb. 



1. W. luzoniensis Yidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 170. 

 (2505,2524,3200 Merrill) June, October; (380 Whitford) June; (2188 Meyer) 



December; (0001 Elmer) November; (0100 Leiberg) July. In thickets and in 

 forests along streams below 150 m., abundant. Endemic 



2. Webera meyeri (Elmer). 



A lax shrub about 5 m. high. Branches densely hirsute pubescent. Leaves 



opposite, membranous, broadly oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 10 to 20 cm. 

 long, 4 to cm. wide, shilling above, hirsute' pubescent on both surfaces with 

 scattered hairs,, the pul>esccnee becoming dense on the midrib and lateral nerves 

 beneath, the apex sharply acuminate, narrowed below to the acute base; nerves 

 about 10 on each side of the midrib, ascending, somewhat prominent beneath, 

 loosely anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, densely 

 hirsute; bracts 1 to 1.4 cm. long, hirsute, the base broad, slenderly long caudate 

 acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, 2 to 3 em. long, densely hirsute 

 pubescent throughout, the peduncle very short, the primary branches about 

 1.5 cm. long, the bracts linear, about 8 mm. long. Flowers white, about 8 mm. 

 long, subsessile. clustered at the ends of the branches. Calyx densely hirsute 

 pubescent, 4 mm. long, 5-toothed, the teeth narrow, about as long as the tube, 

 subtended by 2 linear, hirsute bracteoles nearly as long as the calyx. Corolla 



