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oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, apice acute acuminatis, 
basi acutis, pagina superiore nitidis, scaberulis; nervis latera- 
libus utrinque circiter 12, subtus prominentibus; inflorescentiis 
circiter 7 cm longis, trichotomis, paucifloris, floribus confertis, 
circiter 2.5 cm longis. 
A shrub 2 to 3 m high, the branches terete or the younger 
ones somewhat compressed, rather densely hirsute with short 
spreading hairs as are the midribs and nerves on the lower sur- 
faces of the leaves and the inflorescence, indumentum rather 
pale. Leaves oblong-obovate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 
olivaceous when dry, shining, about 20 cm long, 8 to 9 cm wide, 
sharply acuminate, base acute, the upper surface distinctly 
scaberulous, otherwise nearly glabrous except the sparingly 
pubescent midrib, the lower surface rather prominently hirsute 
on the midrib nerves and reticulations with short spreading 
hairs; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent, somewhat ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations 
lax; petioles 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, short-hirsute; stipules trian- 
gular-oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute, about 1 cm long. 
Inflorescence about 7 cm long, peduncled, trichotomously 
branched, densely pale-hirsute, the flowers rather few, crowded 
on the ultimate branchlets. Calyx hirsute, about 3 mm long, 
the teeth lanceolate, 1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube hirsute with 
short spreading hairs, about 1 cm long, the lobes-linear-oblong, 
obtuse, about 12 mm long and 3 mm wide, sparingly hirsute 
on the exposed dorsal parts. Anthers linear, 10 to 11 mm long. 
Style exserted about 1.7 cm, slightly hirsute. 
LuZON, Province of Tayabas, Dayap, Bur. Sci. 18114 Foxworthy & 
Ramos, March 9, 1911, in forests, altitude about 30 meters, flowers white. 
This species belongs in the Pavetta indica group and its alliance is with 
P. bakeri Merr. It differs from both species in its more numerously 
nerved leaves which are scaberulous on the upper surface, and from the 
latter especially in its leaves being not at all papillate on the upper surface, 
the reticulations being not at all impressed, and the nerves being but very 
slightly so. There are also many differences in the shape of the leaves 
and in details of the inflorescence and flowers. 
IXORA Linnaeus 
IXORA GRACILIPES sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber circiter 5 m altus; foliis oblongis ad oblongo- 
oblanceolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 10 cm longis, obtusis, 
acutis, vel obscure acuminatis, basi angustatis, cuneatis vel de- 
currento-acuminatis, nervis primariis patulis, obscuris, circiter 
13 utrinque, anastomosantibus; inflorescentiis terminalibus 
et in axillis superioribus, gracilis, paucifloris, longe graciliter 
