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litary but from all the leaf axils, greenish white, ascending, 

 glabrous, 3 to 5 cm. long, striate, subtended by the base 

 by short, thick and glabrous bracts, flower bearing from 

 the base; pedicels divaricate, slender, the longer ones 4 mm. 

 long, also glabrous, subtended by short and blunt bracts, 

 usually solitary but occasionally in small groups; calyx 1.5 

 mm. long, glabrous, the 4 or occasionally 5 subrotund lobes 

 with subhyaline finely ciliate margins, united around the base, 

 pulverulent on the outside; petals 5, cremeus, glabrous, 

 globose in the bud state, in anthesis truncately oblong, 2,25 

 mm. long, 1 mm. less in width, becoming nearly free; stamens as 

 many as corolla segments, alternating with them; filaments gla- 

 brous, short and relatively thick, inserted upon the corolla 

 near the base; anther basifixed, broadly ellipsoid, 0.75 mm. 

 long, usually one anther cell sterile or having shed its pollen; 

 ovary subglabrous, ellipsoid or well bulged at the middle, 

 tapering to the subentire stigma. Fruiting spikes ascending, 

 the rachis yellowish green; fruits globose, dark purplish red 

 when ripe, juicy and bitter, 4 mm. in diameter, subtended 

 by the persistent calyx. 



Type specimen numbers 11449 in flower and 11408 in fruit, 

 A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Min- 

 danao, August, 1909. 



Gathered upon the upper forested region of mount Apo 

 at 7000 feet altitude. My native Bagobo companion called 

 the former number "Pagat-pat" and the latter "Marintok." 



In /. pulogensis Merr. the rachis is short and thick, with 

 fruits upon relatively short pedicels; our leaves have scattering 

 black gland spots on the under side. 



Ilex epiphytica Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic shrub; stem few to several, ascending, 5 to 8 cm. 

 thick, 4 m. high, repeatedly branched; twigs erect or sub- 

 erect, green, drying blackish, glabrous, terete, relatively long. 

 Leaves ascending, thickly coriaceous, conduplicate and strongly 

 recurved at the abruptly acuminate apex, paler green beneath, 

 glabrous, unequally brown when dry, very lucid above even 

 in the dry state, alternatingly scattered, broadly rounded 

 at the base, the entire margins subinvolute, subrotund or 



