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of the midrib, slender but distinct, ascending, obscurely anasto- 
mosing, the reticulations obscure; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long; 
stipules ovate to oblong-ovate, prominently acuminate, thin, gla- 
brous or sparingly hirsute, about 12 mm long, the margins some- 
what lacerate. Inflorescences axillary, dense, many-flowered, 
in fruit forming globose or hemispheric masses 1 to 1.5 cm in 
diameter. Pedicels 1.5 to 2mm long. Bracteoles linear-oblong, 
up to 4 mm in length, sparingly ciliate-hirsute. Capsules glo- 
bose to somewhat obovoid, 2 mm long, sparingly hirsute, the 
persistent calyx-lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, some- 
what hirsute. 
CATANDUANES, in forests, Bur. Sci. 30389 (type), 30242 Ramos, 
November, 1917. BILIRAN, Mount Suiro, Bur. Sci. 18914, 18745 
McGregor, June, 1914, 
This species resembles Hedyotis rigida Mig. (H. leucocarpa 
Elm.), but is entirely different in habit, being an unbranched 
undershrub, with larger stipules and very numerous, sparingly 
hirsute, smaller fruits which are crowded in dense hemispheric 
to globose infructescences. 
IXORA Linnaeus 
IXORA LUZONIENSIS Sp. nov. 
Frutex 1 ad 2 m altus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus vel 
ramulis leviter compressis; feliis lanceolatis ad oblongo-lanceo- 
latis, chartaceis, usque ad 16 cm longis, in siccitate pallidis, ni- 
tidis, breviter petiolatis, apice acuminatis, basi angustatis, acutis; 
nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 15, tenuibus, distinctis, 
arcuato-anastomosantibus ; stipulis filiformibus, 7 ad 10 mm 
longis; infructescentiis terminalibus, circiter 3 cm longis, e basi 
ramosis; floribus ut videtur paucis; fructibus ovoideis, 6 ad 8 
mm diametro. 
A glabrous shrub 1 to 2m high, the branches and branchlets 
terete or the latter slightly compressed, slender. Leaves lan- 
‘ ceolate to oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, pale and shining when 
dry, 11 to 16 em long, 1.5 to 8 em wide, narrowed upward to 
the acuminate apex and below to the acute base; primary lateral 
nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, 
spreading, arched-anastomosing; petioles about 2 mm long; 
stipules filiform, 7 to 10 mm long from a somewhat widened 
base. Infructescences terminal, about 3 cm long, branched from 
the base, the flowers apparently few, the pedicels 5 to 8 mm 
long, the branches few, spreading, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 
about 1 mm long. Fruits red, ovoid, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, 
brown to nearly black when dry. 
