1338 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Von. IV, Arr. 70 
calyx nearly 3 mm. long, glabrous, toothed, campanulate, upon 
short ebracteolate pedicels; corolla pure white, 1 cm. long; fruits 
compressed globose, less than 1.25 cm. through, bearing the 
minute persistent calyx, chalky white at all stages; seeds 2, cir- 
cular, centrally attached, concave on the ventral, convex on 
the dorsal side. 
Type specimen 12894, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
This Ixora with white flowers and fruits is quite commonly 
scattered in loose fertile soll or in a kind of adobe flat of wood- 
lands or in humid forests from 250 to 1000 feet. 
Quite distinct from I. crassifolia Merr. though related to it. 
Ixora filmeri Elm. n. sp. 
Erect undershrub; stem 5 cm. thick, 3 m. high, mainly 
branched from above the middle; branches lax and flexible, freely 
rebranched, glabrous, gnarly at the point of branching ;wood brown- 
ish white, rather tough, odorless and without taste; bark smooth, 
brown. Leaves opposite, scattered along the twigs, glabrous, 
drying dull brown, quite variable in size, the average blades 
1 dm. long by 4.5 em. wide across the middle, obovately oblong. 
or merely oblong, apex obtuse, base obtusely rounded, entire, 
horizontal, flat, thinly coriaceous, darker green above, the young 
ones pale; midvein prominent beneath, grooved above, reddish 
brown when dry; lateral nerves 9 to 11 pairs and relatively 
obscure, equally visible from the upper side, alternating with 
rather prominent secondary ones, divarieate, straight, inter- 
archingly united, reticulations quite prominent from both sides; 
petiole 3 mm. long, stout, glabrous; stipule 3 to 5 mm. thick, 
broadly ovate, with a carinate and slenderly acuminate point. 
Peduncle from 2 to 5 em. long, slender, glabrous, erect or as- 
cending, terminal or from short specialized lateral branches, 
subtended by a whorl of imbricated sharply acuminate bracts 
which themselves are frequently subtended by a pair of folia- 
ceous bracts; inflorescence umbellately eymose, spreading, 3 to 
4 em. across; branches and pedieels short, subtended by very 
slender bracteoles; calyx cup shaped, 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, 
rim entire or occasionally apiculate; corolla varying from 1 to 2 
| em. in length, "hor glabrous; tube slender, green except the 
