DecemBer 16, 1908] THs GENUS ITEA 
by one half that in width, base rounded or obtuse, apex acute 
or obtuse, margins entire or obscurely denticulate, the brown 
3 to 5 ascendingly arched pairs of nerves prominent beneath, 
lucid green above, much paler beneath, glabrous, reticulations 
and cross bars very faint; petiole very thick, glabrous, 1.5 
to 2 cm. long, usually recurved. Inflorescence axillary or 
more frequently 1 to 3 or even 5-clustered in the axils of 
fallen leaves, the spicate racemes varying from 1 to 2 dm. 
in length; glabrous pedicels 3 mm. long, slender, usually 
arranged in small clusters; calyx turbinate at the base, the 
rim 3 mm. in diameter, glabrous, 5-toothed or apiculate; 
petals alternating with the calyx segments, 3 mm. long, 1 
mm. wide at the base, gradually tapering to the acuminate 
apex, subpersistent and reflexed with age; glabrous filaments 
slender, 1.5 mm. long; anther 0.3 mm. long, nearly as broad, 
introrse; ovary glabrous, conical and terminating into a short 
style, falsely united into 2 carpels; stigma terminal and disk 
like; capsule 4 mm. long, glabrous, splitting from the base 
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but usually the stigma keeping intact; seeds black, linear, _ 
2.5 mm. long. 
Type specimen 7484, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. 
In sparse woods skirting the base of mount Banahao at 
2400 feet. . 
Apparently it differs from J. macrophylla Wall. in its 
larger calyx rim, more acuminate corrolla segments, and : 
much shorter capsules. 
