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subsessily 5 to 7-clustered at the ends of the peduncles; 
calyx bristly hairy, the united portion very short; segments 
longer than the tube, 2 mm. long, about 7 in number, 
sharply acuminate, densely covered with soft bristle like hairs; 
corolla pubescent on the exterior, 2 cm. long, divided into 
5 strap like segments, its throat minutely pubescent; stamens 
5, inserted upon the throat of the corolla; filament short, 
flattened, glabrous; anthers 8 mm. long, linear, pointed at 
the apex, sagittate at the base; the included portion of the 
style pubescent, entire or cleft at the apex. 
Type specimen 7958, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. A lax shrub of 
the subalpine forest region. Rare. 
Ixora leytensis n. sp. Lax but sparingly branched shrub, 
9. m. high; bark dull gray, that on the young twigs pulveru- 
lent; wood soft and easily breaking. Leaves opposite, 8 cm. 
apart, membranous, glabrous above, puberulent or minutely 
pubescent beneath, oblong or elliptic, 7 to 9 cm. wide, 
24 cm. long including the stout 2 cm. long petiole, obtuse 
or acute at apex, acute at the base; midvein and the 13 
to 15 lateral pairs prominent beneath, reticulations and 
anastomosing tips quite conspicuous; stipule deciduous, connate, 
rigid, brown, 2 mm. wide, abruptly terminating into a slen- 
der setaceous point. Terminal inflorescence upon a 4 to 7 
em. long straight peduncle which is usually subtended by 
larger or smaller foliaceous bracts, ovoid in shape, 3 to 5 
em. across, the branchlets and pedicels subtended by small 
sharply acuminate bracts; calyx subglabrous or finely pubes- 
cent, 5 mm. long, its thick and entire rim 1.5 mm. deep 
and persistent in fruit; corolla flesh colored, 14 mm. long, 
its tube finely pubescent on the exterior, 2 mm. in diameter 
at the base and gradually enlarging towards the limb; the 
5 lobes oval, about 4 mm. long, thick, apex truncately rounded, 
imbricate, the inwardly overlapping side with an auriculate 
appendage at the base; stamens sessily inserted upon the 
corolla throat and alternating with the segments; anthers 
3 mm. long, truncate at base orin the fully matured ones 
bilobed, acute at apex, introrse; style equalling the corolla, 
_ straight, sparsely strigose or subglabrous, terminated by 2 
thick lanceolate or triangularly acute 3mm. long stigmatic 
