1336 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 70 
IXORA Linn. 
Ixora palawanensis Merr. 
Field-note:—Lax and erect undershrub; stem terete, 0.5 
inch thick, occasionally branched from near the ground, only 
sparingly rebranched toward the top; wood moderately soft and 
dirty white, without taste or odor; bark smooth, brown; leaves 
scattered along the branchlets which are usually recurved, flat, 
coriaceous, dark green except the lighter lower surface, the 
young leaves pale green; inflorescence terminal, erect or suberect, 
the stalks ruber, the bracts greenish, the corolla tube similar 
in color, the 4 rotate or descending segments miniatus, the stigma 
with an exerted portion of the style purple; fruits red. 
Represented by number 12821, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Here and there scattered in either gravelly or other good 
soil of light wooded flats at 750 feet. 
Ixora intermedia Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect tree; stem subterete, 7.5 em. thick, 7 m. 
high, crooked, branched from below the middle; wood hard and 
heavy, odorless and tasteless, dingy yellowish white, the outer 
portion lighter than the darker central mass; bark testaceus 
except the nearly smooth yellowish gray epidermis; branches 
divaricately spreading, slender, freely rebranched, the ultimate 
ones glabrous. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, also glabrous, 
lighter green beneath, nearly flat, horizontally spreading, 1 to 
3-clustered toward the end of the branchlets, dissimilar brown 
in the dry state, very unequal in size, oblong, the larger blades 
2 dm. long by 7.5 em. wide across the middle, gradually tapering 
to the acute apex and base, entire; midvein stout, the 9 to 11 
ascendingly curved lateral pairs with tips more or less archingly 
united, reticulations coarse and quite evident; stipule glabrous, 
broadly ovate, the median line projecting into an acute point, 
5 mm. broad, scarcely longer; petiole 1 em. long, grooved on the 
upper side, also glabrous, stout; infrutescence always terminal; 
peduncles strict, green, usually 3, divaricately spreading, subgla- 
brous, subtended by stipular bracts, 7.5 em. long; main branches 
