June 16, 1913] Philippine: Ilex 1669 



ovately elliptic, the blades 7 to 13 cm. long and grooved 

 above; lateral nerves 9 to 12 pairs, ascending, reticulately 

 united by their tips, reticulations quite numerous and plainly 

 evident from both sides; petiole 1.5 cm. long or less, 

 glabrous, blackish brown on the dry specimens. Infrutes- 

 cent spikes suberect, axillary or lateral, 2.5 cm. long or 

 more frequently much less in length, solitary, apparently 

 subtended by small bracts, fruit bearing from the base, 

 fluted, glabrous but in flowering condition finely puberulent; 

 pedicels 3 mm. long, subtended by bracteoles, divaricate or 

 deflexed; fruits hard and green, in the dry state brown, 

 subtended by the 5 or 6 roundish calyx segments, S-seeded. 



Type specimen number 13718, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 embtr, 1912. 



Upon moss and vine covered large limbs of massive trees 

 in a forested depression at 3500 feet altitude between Duros 

 and Cawilanan peaks. "Catagyo" or "Catagdo" in Manobo. 



Retated to /. foxworthyi Merr. 



