Junk 16, 1913] Philippikb Ilex 1665 



Ilex racemifera Loes. 



Founded upon Warburg's number 14640 collected in the 

 woods at Davao, Mindanao, 



Ilex pulogfensis Merr. 



From mount Pulog, northern Benguet province, Luzon. 

 Very near to 1. hanceana Maxim. 



Ilex benguetensis Elm. n. sp. 



A tall and rather slender tree, with a trunk 20 m. high 

 and 4.5 dm. thick; wood quite hard, white; bark smoothish, 

 greenish gray, numerously set with small whitish lenticels, 

 twigs more or less roughened with leaf scars, subangular to- 

 ward the tips. Leaves copious, alternatingly crowded, rigid- 

 ly coriaceous or chartaceous, shining green at least on the 

 upper side, curing brown, duller beneath in the dry state, 

 recurved at the short obtuse to acute apex, margins entire, 

 base obtuse or subcuneate, oblongit-h or the smaller ones 

 broadly lanceolate; the larger ones 1 dm. long by 3 cm. 

 wide across the middle, glabrous; midvein quite prominent 

 beneath, shallowly grooved along the upper .side; lateral 

 neaves 5 to 8 on a side, divaricate, very coarsely anasto- 

 mosing, reticulations also relatively coarse upon the nether 

 side; petiole 1 cm. long, flattened and creased along the upper 

 side, glabrous. Inflorescence clustered in the uppermost leaf 

 axils, ascending, upon 1.5 cm. long spikes or subsessile; 

 rachis yellowish, puberulent, ridged, flower bearing from the 

 base, occasionally at the base short rebranched, bracteated 

 at the base; pedicels solitary or in small groups or in ter- 

 minal subumbellate clusters, subtended by rather broad per- 

 sistent bracts, shape and vestiture as the rachis, varying up 

 to 4 mm. long, calyx spreading, shallowly cup shaped, pu- 

 berulent on the exterior toward the base, 2 mm. across, 1,5 

 mm. long or high; teeth broadly acute or obtuse, finely 

 ciliate along the margins, usually 4 but often with an ad- 

 ditional dwarfed one; corolla creamy white, imbricated in the 

 ellipsoid bud, 3 mm. long, united below the middle or to- 



