Junk 16, 1913] Philippine Ilex 1667 



ish white, campanulate, occasionally subtended by bracteoles 

 1.5 mm. long, glabrous except the obscurely puberulent 

 margins, united below the middle, the 5 segments obtusely 

 rouaded; corolla white, united below the middle, 3.5 mm. 

 long, glabrous except the puberulent margins; segments 5, 

 broadly obloag, rounded at apex, rotately spreading; stamens 

 also 5, alternating with the segments and inserted upon the 

 throat of the corolla; filament whitish, subcom pressed, 1 mm. 

 long, glabrous, inwardly curved; anther yellow, subbasifixed, 

 broadly elliptic, bifid at base, emarginate at apex, 0.75 mm. 

 long; ovary subglabrous, ellipsoid, tapering into the bifid 

 stigma. 



Type specimen number 11348, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 



Discovered in the elfinwoods of mount Calelan at 8000 

 feet altitude. The Bagobos call it "Masaleksik. " Named 

 after Anton D. Elmer, our son. 



Its affinity is distinctly with I. mkrothyrsa Loes. but 

 our leaves are more tapering at base, relatively much 

 narrower and with lateral nerves not at all obscure. 



Ilex apoensis Elm. n. sp. 



A suberect and stocky tree; trunk 8 or more m. high, 

 6 dm. thick; main branches from below the middle, ulti- 

 mately widely spreading, numerously rebranched and forming 

 dense masses; old twigs crooked and gnarly, the young 

 portion greenish but upon drying becoming nearly black, 

 densely covered with raised brown lenticels; wood rather 

 soft, delicately white, odorless and tasteless, covered with 

 yellowish gray bark. Leaves glabrous, copious, ascending, 

 broadly fusiform, slightly more acute at apex than at base, en- 

 tire, 2.5 to 4.5 cm. long, 1.25 to 2 cm. wide across the 

 middle or their widest portion, coriaceous, dark above, much 

 paler beneath, drying unequally blackish brown; petiole black 

 and glabrous, only a few mm. long; midvein appearing 

 edged beneath and grooved above; the lateral nerves obscure, 

 on an average about 5 on each side of the larger blades, 

 their tips faintly united, reticulations obscure and rela- 

 tively coarse. Inflorescence very profuse; stalks usually so- 



