2. H. parviflorum Miq. 
+ + Foliage pubescent beneath. 
3. H. glomeratum (Bartl.) Sch. 
IXORA LINN. 
* Lobes of calyx equalling or longer than its tube. 
l. G. kingstonia Hook. 
* * Lobes of calyx shorter than its tube. 
+ Leaves sessile, triangularly acuminate. 
2. I sparsiflora n. sp. Lax shrubs, 3 m. high; branches 
smooth, frequently dichotemously branched. Leaves sessile, 
distichous or nearly so, about 5 em. apart, submembranous, 
wholly glabrous, triangularly acuminate, 8 em. long, 3 em. 
wide at the base, sharply pointed at apex, base subemar- 
ginate, pinnately nerved with 15 to 18 pairs; stipule coria- 
ceous, persistent, 8 mm. long, broad at the base, abruptly 
tapering to a slender bristle like awn. Infrutescence terminal, 
corymbosely paniculate; the primary peduncles subtended 
by 2 thin linear foliaceous bracts, the secondary peduncles 
and pedicels subtended by a pair of short setaceous bracts; 
pedicels 1 cm. in length, glabrous, straight, persistent, 
bibracteate at the apex and immediately beneath the fruit; 
mature and perfect fruit subglobose, subdidymous, 8 mm. 
across the widest portion, 6 mm. long, smooth, with 4 
minute and persistent calyx segments. 
Type specimen 6641, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Mariveles, 
Province of Bataan, Luzon, November, 1904. 
+ + Leaves linear, about 1.5 em. wide, 20 em, long. 
3. I. salicifolia Blm. 
++ Inflorescence on slender hangimg peduncles, axillary or terminal. 
4. l|. cumingiana Vid. 
++ ++ Inflorescence subsessile or pedunculate, always terminal. 
= Infrutescence subsessile, usually only 1-flowered between large 
foliaceous bracts. 
5. L bibracteata n. sp. Shrub with rigid and gnarly 
branches. Leaves chiefly at the ends, lanceolate or oblan- 
ceolate, membranous, glabrous on both sides, reddish brown 
beneath when cured, darker brown above, subsessile, 9 em. 
long, 2.5 em. wide, apex abruptly acute, base attenuate, 
opposite, the uppermost pair much smaller and bract like, 
midnerve prominent, the 9 to 12 lateral pairs obscure; sti- 
