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ward the base, glabrous; lobes mostly 4, elliptic, with at 

 few longitudinal veins; filaments 4, inserted upon the corolla 

 and alternating with its segments, subterete, subglabrous, 1 

 mm. long; anther 1.25 mm. long, ovately oblong from the 

 side view, bilobed at base and basifixed, apex rounded or 

 bluntly apiculate by the extension of its connective; ovary ova- 

 tely ellipsoid, obscurely rugose, terminated by a bifid 

 stigma. 



Type specimen number 8522, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, 

 Benguet Province, Luzon, March, 1907. 



This stately Ilex was collected along the Ipit river at 

 4000 feet altitude. Only known from northern Luzon. 



Dr. Loesner determined this for me as a new species, 

 though it is critically related to /. cinereae Champ, and /. 

 formosana Maxim. It was distributed under the latter name and 

 as to our Philippine species it is nearest to /. guerreroii Merr- 



Ilex antonii Elm. n. sp. 



Gnarly and rigid tree, 7 m. high and with a 2 dm. 

 thick stem; branches arising from the middle and ascending, 

 the ultimate ones numerous, erect and forming dense bushes; 

 twigs terete, gray, rigid and roughened by the leat scars, 

 their young tips finely puberulent; wood hard, old bark 

 brownish. Leaves very numerous, ascending, flat, deep green 

 and shining on the upper side, much paler and duller be- 

 neath, very rigidly coriaceous, alternate or frequently subop- 

 posite or even subverticellate, drying unequally brown, the 

 entire margins well curved upon the nether side, cuneiform, 

 1.5 cm. long by 7 mm. wide above the middle, subsessile 

 or with very short petioles, apex tvuncately rounded and 

 distinctly eraarginate; midvein conspicuous beneath, the 4 or 

 5 ascending lateral pairs of nerves plainly evident but tips 

 nearly obsolete, reticulations obscure. Spikes few from the 

 upper leaf axils, ascending, 1.5 cm. long or less, striate, 

 glabrous or when young very minutely puberulent, usually 

 solitary but occasionally 2 to 3-clustered, flower bearing 

 mainly in the upper one half; pedicels from 2 to 4 mm. in 

 length, thick, glabrous, subtended by an obtuse bract and 

 occasionally with a pair of small lateral ones; calyx green- 



