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LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, ART. 25 
1. i. maesaefolia Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby trees, 5 m. high. Branches gray, rather numer- 
ously rebranched; bark thinly checked; young twigs glab- 
rous. Leaves alternate, semirigid, ovate to oblong or subel- 
liptic, the blade less than 1 Ém. long, 8 to 5 cm. wide, 
darker lucid green above, glabrous, apex acute to acuminate, 
base obtuse; the 5 to 7 pairs of nerves ascending, arched, 
brown and quite prominent beneath, cross bars very faint; 
margins subentire below the middle, apiculate or serrate to- 
ward the apex; petiole 1 to 2 em. long, glabrous, thickened 
toward the base. Inflorescence scattered along the twigs, in 
the leaf axils or in the axils of the leaf scars, usually cluster- 
ed in 1 to 3 spicate racemes, glabrous; rachis spreading, 3 
to 7 cm. long; flowers pale white, upon glabrous 2 cm. 
long pedicels which are usually arranged in small clusters; 
calyx gradually tapering into the pedicel, 1.5 mm. long 
including the 5 sharply acuminate teeth, glabrous; petals 
nearly free, 5, grown to the base of the calyx, alternating with 
the calyx teeth, prior to anthesis erect but ultimately strongly 
deflexed, slenderly acuminate, 2.5 mm. long, about 0.75 mm. 
wide across the base; stamens 5, alternating with the petals, erect; 
the glabrous filaments 0.75 mm. long; the 0.25 mm. long anther 
nearly as wide and introrse; ovary and gradually tapering style 
glabrous, the style falsely united into 2 parts and bearing a 
similarly united capitate stigma; mature capsules not seen. 
Type specimen 7566, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. 
In light woods at 1800 feet on mount Banahao. The 
foliage appears very similar to some Philippine species of 
Maesa. 
It is only distantly related to I. chinensis H. and A. and 
has differently shaped leaves, all parts wholly glabrous, petals 
reflexed not depressed to the fruit and with much shorter 
stamens. 
2. 1. luzonensis Elm. n. sp. 
Large shrub or small tree; bark gray; branches rigid. 
Leaves also rigid, alternate, scattered along the glabrous twigs, 
ovate or sometimes oblong or the smaller ones subelliptic, 
quite variable in size, the average larger ones 16 cm. long 
