1862 Leaflets of Philippine Botant I Vol. V, Art. 94 



especially toward the distal ends, articulate at base, the ultimate 

 ones very finely puberulent, all deep red and subtended by rather 

 sharply pointed bracteoles; pedicel 3 or more mm. long, deep red, 

 finely puberulent, articulate at the apex and terminated by a pair 

 of rigid sharply acute teeth; calyx similar in color and 

 vestiture, 3 5 mm. long, 1 cm. less in thickness, slightly 

 narrower at the base, terminated by 4 small teeth; corolla 

 tube 1.5 cm, long, whitish, glabrous; lobes 4, imbricate and 

 twisted in the ellipsoid bud, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 

 elliptic or oblongish and truncately rounded at apex, rotately 

 spreading in anthesis, ultimately reflexed and sides somewhat 

 curled upon the dorsal surface, white but occasionally tinged 

 with red; stamens also 4, erect from the throat; filaments 

 glabrous, 2 mm. long and nearly 1 mm. broad, alternating 

 with the segments; anthers 5 mm. long, elongated, dorsifixed, 

 tapering to a point, bilobed at base, rather broad across the 

 middle and obscurely flattened; style very slender, as long 

 as the corolla; stigmas greenish, composed of 2 plano-convex 

 fleshy lobes 2.5 mm. long by 1 mm. wide across the mid- 

 dle. Fruits usually 2-celled and 2-8eeded, subglobose or 

 wider than long, light purple but drying blackish, 1 cm. 

 in diameter, terminated by the short calyx rim; pyrene 

 circular and short conical, with a deep cavity upon the 

 ventral side . 



Type specimen number 13806, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Collected in dry well drained humus covered ground of 

 forested ridges between Duros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 

 feet altitude. "Matigandang" is its Manobo name. 



Ixora chartacea membranacea Elm. n. var. 



Slender erect or suberect shrub; stem terete, crooked, 

 strict otherwise, 3.5 cm. thick, 3 m. high, few branched 

 toward the top; wood rather hard, the thin outer portion 

 white or nearly so, otherwise yellowish, quite without odor 

 or taste; bark brown and smooth or minutely checked, 

 otherwise latericius; branches spreading, occasionally rebranch- 

 ed, the ultimate ones descending, the apical or young portions 



