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Ophiorrhiza pubescens n. sp. Low suberect or decumbent 
annual herbs, 5 to 10 cm. high; stems usually solitary and 
unbranched, 3 mm. thick, densely covered with a short 
dirty brown or yellowish gray pubescence. Leaves opposite, 
the lower ones upon 1 em. long densely pubescent petioles, 
the upper ones subsessile, bristly pubescent on both sides 
but especially on the nerves beneath, green above, paler 
below, very unequal in size, the larger, ones 4 cm. long 
without the petiole, 2.5 cm. wide above the middle, apex 
acute or obtuse, base obtuse or truncate to subcordate and 
often slightly inequilateral, ovate lanceolate to elliptic ob- 
lanceolate or oblong; lateral nerves 11 to 13 pairs in the 
larger blades, ascendingly curved; stipule small and obscure, 
hispidly pubescent. Inflorescence terminating the stems, broad- 
ly corymbose or subcircinately branched; flowers short pedi- 
celled or sessile, subtended by narrow foliaceously tipped 
ciliate bracts; calyx densely brown hispid pubescent, its 5 
short acute teeth 4 mm. long including the tube; corolla 
yellowish white, 4 mm. long with the triangularly acute 1 
mm. long segments, ciliate brown pubescent on the outside, 
soft pubescent on the interior at about the middle; stamens 
included, inserted upon the corolla tube 1 mm. from the 
base; anthers linear, 1 to 1.5 mm. long; filaments slender, 
glabrous, 1 to 2 mm. long; style 1 mm. in length, also 
glabrous; stigma clavate, subentire or cleft. 
Type specimen 7941, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Discovered in red 
heavy soil of open grass lands. 
Ixora meyeri n. sp. Shrub or a small tree, 5 m. high; 
ultimate branches densely pubescent. Leaves opposite, very 
thin and membranous, soft yellowish pubescent on both 
sides but especially dense on the nerves beneath, 6 em. 
wide, 18 cm. long including the 1 to 2 em. long pubescent 
petiole, smaller ones lanceolate, larger ones broadly oblan- 
ceolate, apex sharply acuminate, base attenuate, nerves 7 
to 9 pairs; stipule 15 mm. long, densely pubescent, broad 
at the base but abruptly tapering into a slender filiform 
bristle. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, much shorter than 
the leaves; peduncles and branchlets densely yellowish brown 
pubescent, subtended by hairy setose bracts; flowers white; 
