SKPfEMBER 12, 1918] TtVBlACSAE FROM MoU.VT UrDANETA 18t>5 



Discovered in dry or well drained soil along the forest- 

 ed ridge in the saddle between Duros and Cawilanan peaks 

 at 3500 feet altituHe. 



It is neither of Merrill's thick and large leafed /. eras- 

 sifolia nor /. pachyphylla. 



Ixora magnifica Elm. n. sp. 



Suberect undershrab; stem terete, crooked, 2.5 cm. thick, 

 3 to 4 m. high, very sparingly branched toward the top 

 only; wood whitish, rather tough, odorless and tasteless; bark 

 blackish brown and nearly smooth, testaceus except the epi- 

 dermis; branches slender, likewise sparingly rebranched, strong- 

 ly recurved or drooping, glabrous even the green terminal 

 portion, terete. Leaves horizontally spreading, thinly charta- 

 ceous, glabrous, paler green beneath, curing greenish brown 

 on both sides, broadly oblong or the smaller ones elliptically 

 oblong, apex obtusely rounded or occasionally short acute, 

 base broadly obtuse, the entire margins obscurely wavy or 

 rugose and in the dry state a trifle involute, the larger ones 

 2 5 dm. long by 7 cm. wide across the middle, oppositely 

 scattered, flat and only gradually recurved; midrib very prom- 

 inent beneath, nearly plane above, yellowish brown on the 

 herbarium specimens; the nerves 9 to 11 on each side, sub- 

 divaricate except the much ascending basal ones, slightly 

 curved except the distal ends which form a united line 5 

 to 8 mm. below the edge, occasionally secondary ones inter- 

 vening, reiicuUitions coarse and quite evident beneath only; 

 petiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, caniculate; stipule in- 

 teraxillary, 5 mm. long, nearly as broad across the base, 

 subpersistent, terminated into a setaceous point, glabrous brown 

 and subchartaceous especially the basal portion. Inflorescence 

 erect, upon a very short green stalk, fiattish or corymbosely 

 paniculate, oftsn 2 dm. across, subtended by a pair of regu- 

 larly sized leaves; main branches subcom pressed, articulate 

 at the base which is subtended by stipular subpersistent bracts, 

 rebranched from near the base; ultimate branchlets quite 

 comparatively numerous, subtended by sharply pointed bract- 

 eoles, all the branches ruber red; flower odorless, of short 

 duration, in the bud st ite aurantiacus, those in full anthesis 



