1864 Lkaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 94 



Ixora gigantifolia Elm. n. sp. 



A slender erect shrub-like tree; stem 1 dm. thick, terete, 

 crooked, 5 to 7 m, high, few branched toward the top 

 only; wood white, odorless and tasteless, moderately hard 

 or soft; bark smooth and grayish white on the outer surface, 

 testaceus otherwise; main branches few, relatively short, spar- 

 ingly rebranched, the glabrous ultimate ones somewhat 

 compressed. Leaves chiefly horizontal, subchartaceons or sub- 

 coriaceous, almost flat, much lighter green beneath, curing 

 deep brown on both sides, entire, the margins a trifle 

 curved upon the nether side, glabrous, elliptic, opposite, not 

 numerous and widely scattering, 2 to 3 dm. long, 1 dm. wide, 

 oblong in shape, rounded at both ends or the smaller blades 

 broadly obtuse at apei; midrib raised beneath, grooved 

 abovci deep reddish brown when dry, lateral nerves averaging 

 10 on each side, ascending, nearly straight, tips branched 

 or coarsely anastomosing, prominent on the lower side only, 

 reticulations coarse and nearly equally seen from both 

 sides; petiole 1.5 cm. long and nearly one third as thick, 

 turning blackish brown upon drying, shallowly though widely 

 grooved along the upper side; stipule deciduous, 1 cm. 

 long and nearly 7.5 mm. wide below the middle, apex blunt. 

 Infrutescence erect, 1 dm. long, terminal; peduncle yellowish 

 green, glabrous, 5 cm. long, occasionally branched from the 

 base which is usually provided with a series of imbricating 

 atipular bracts, dark brown when dry; branches divaricate, form- 

 ing a corymbose panicle 1 dm. across; branchlets above the 

 middle, numerous, puberulent, freely rebranched; pedicels short 

 or none, apparently ebracteate; calyx subcylindric, nearly 

 glabrous, roundly 5-lobulate. Fruits compressed globose, less 

 than 1 cm. across in the fresh state, 7.5 mm. thick when dry, 

 smooth, when young pale or yellowish green, turning bright 

 red and finally deep vinosus, bearing the much constricted 

 and short calyx tube; pyrene 2, centrally attached, plane 

 on the inner side, plump on the outer, edges rounded, circu- 

 lar from face view, 6 mm. across. 



Type specimen number 14206, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tober, 1912. 



