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pedunculatis circiter 9 cm longis; fructibus 8 ad 10 mm 
diametro. 
A glabrous shrub about 5 m high, the branches brownish or 
olivaceous, terete, brownish or pale-olivacous, the younger ones 
shining, 2.5 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong to oblong-oblan- 
ceolate, coriaceous, 7 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, brownish 
or olivaceous, smooth, shining, the lower surface a little paler 
than the upper, the margins somewhat revolute, the apex obtuse, 
acute, or slightly acuminate, narrowed in the lower one-third 
or one-half to the cuneate or somewhat decurrent-acuminate 
base; lateral nerves slender, spreading at nearly right angles, 
obscure, about 13 on each side of the midrib, obscurely anasto- 
mosing, the reticulations lax, subobsolete; petioles 2 to 3 mm 
long; stipules about 2 mm long, surrounding the stem, truncate. 
Inflorescence terminal and in the upper axils, solitary, slender, 
apparently pendulous, 3- to 7-flowered, about 9 cm long, the very 
slender peduncles 5 to 7 cm long, the few branches 2 cm long 
or less, the bracteoles very small. Fruit brown when dry, sub- 
globose, shining, 8 to 10 mm in diameter, the persistent calyx- 
teeth very short. 
LuzON, Province of Tayabas, Mount Cadig, near Guinayangan, Bur. 
Sci. 20728 (type), 20824 Escritor, March, 1913. 
A species well characterized by its obscurely nerved leaves, the nerves 
spreading at nearly right angles, its truncate stipules, and its very slender, 
apparently pendulous, few-flowered inflorescences. 
IXORA PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva circiter 7 m alta, inflorescentiis leviter pube- 
scentibus exceptis glabra; foliis petiolatis, late elliptico-ovatis, 
circiter 25 cm longis, coriaceis, obtusis vel subrotundatis, basi 
late rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 14, prominentibus; 
inflorescentiis terminalibus, trifidis, latis, circiter 12 cm longis, 
floribus plus minusve confertis, ut videtur brevibus, calycis den- 
tibus brevibus; fructibus 5 ad 8 mm diametro. 
A small tree, about 7 m high, except the inflorescence. 
Branches terete or somewhat compressed, the ultimate ones 
about 5 mm in diameter, grayish, smooth. Leaves broadly el- 
liptic-ovate, coriaceous, about 25 cm long, 12 to 15 cm wide, 
apex obtuse or rounded, base broadly rounded, rather pale and 
slightly shining when dry; lateral nerves about 14 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, 
the reticulations rather coarse, distinct; petioles stout, about 
1.5 em long; stipules oblong-ovate, coriaceous, about 1 cm long. 
Inflorescence terminal, ample, about 12 cm long, trifid, the basal 
branches two, spreading, about 9 cm long, the flowers somewhat 
