JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1337 
1 to 3 em. long, from above the middle, similarly spreading, 
subtended by involucral bracts, secondary branches similar; 
g flowers congested, short pedicelled; calyx 2 mm. long, ellipsoid, 
f glabrous, toothed, green but turning light pink; fruits pale white, 
i subglobose or obscurely compressed, 7.5 mm. across, when ripe 
" reddish; the 2 stone-like seeds rugulose on the dorsal side, con- 
cave on the ventral, circular, 6 mm. across, centrally attached. 
Type specimen 12957, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Discovered in stony soil of dense woods along a dry stream 
bed at about 50 feet altitude. 
Intermediate between I. barbata Roxb. and I. cumingiana 
Vid. 
Ixora leucocarpa Elm. n. sp. 
Suberect shrub; stem terete, 2.5 cm. thick, 1 to 3 m. high 
or even higher, only very sparingly branched from the middle; 
Pec the thin sapwood watery white, otherwise whitish, quite hard, 
V closely grained, without odor or taste; bark smooth, dull brown, 
eastaneus beneath the epidermis; branches sparse, crooked. 
Leaves opposite, few pairs seattered or frequently with only 
a pair, diverse in size, chiefly at the ends of the glabrous twigs, 
descending, rigid and thickly coriaceous, only a trifle recurved 
toward the acute or roundly obtuse apex, base cuneate, glabrous, 
deep green above, much paler so beneath, curing unequally dull 
brown, the entire margins minutely involute when dry, the 
larger blades 2 dm. long by 8 em. wide above the middle, obo- 
vately oblong or the smaller ones oblanceolate; midvein caniculate 
above, conspicuously raised beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 7 or 
even 9, divarieate, comparatively very obscure, their tips arch- 
ingly united 5 mm. from the margin, equally visible from the 
upper side, retieulations obsolete; petiole very stout, 1 to 1.5 
ir 
1 em. long, glabrous, when old becoming scurfy. Infrutescence 
terminal, always erect, solitary, 3 to 5 cm. long, peduncle 2 to 
* 3 cm. long, glabrous, subtended at the base by 2 pairs of unequal 
bracts; the larger pair of bracts oblong and 7.5 mm. long, the 
smaller pair 5 mm. long, broadly ovate and sharply pointed, all 
glabrous; branches from the top only, short yet freely rebranched, 
spreading, forming a condensed 2 to 3 cm. thick infrutescence; 
