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deep miniatus; pedicel 1 to 3 mm. long, slightly red, glab- 

 rous, terminated by a pair of acute teeth 1 mm. long; 

 calyx also glabrous, greenish especially the broadly obtuse 

 4 segments, 3 mm. long, the basal portion stalk-like; teeth 

 persistent, erect, 1 mm. long, with elongated gland appen- 

 dages upon the inner basal portion; ovary rim thick and 

 fleshy; corolla tube very slender, 5 mm. long, glabrous, 

 yellowish red, terminated by 4 segments; bud ovoidly 

 elongated, 7.5 mm. long, the lobes imbricately twisted; 

 lobes rotately spreading in anthesis, elliptic, 1 cm. long, 

 one half as wide across the middle, finely veiny, 

 aurantiacus but finally deep miniatus; stamens 4, alter- 

 nating with the lobes and inserted upon the throat; filaments 

 short, compressed, persistent and recurved, glabrous; anthers 

 4 mm. long, linearly oblong, attached slightly below the 

 middle on the back, abruptly constricted into a point at 

 the apex, base slightly compressed; style ver.- slender and 

 glabrous, equalling the coi'olla; stigmas composed of 4 fleshy 

 recurved lobes. 



Type specimen number 13424, A. D. E. Elmer. Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



This magnificent Ixora is only here and there met in 

 moist fertile ground covered with humus in dense woods or 

 forests at an altitudinal range from 500 to 1500 feet. This very 

 showy and conspicuously flowered shrub is called by the 

 Monobos "Bonog-bonog" and is frequently brought in ^d 

 tucked in below the roof of their houses as ornaments. 



Primarily distinguished from 7. mearnsii Merr. by its 

 much longer corolla and obtusely rounded leaf tips. Also 

 closely related to /. lobbii Loud. 



Ixora tnacrophylla Bartl. 



Field-note: — Slender erect or shrub-like tree; stem crooked, 

 subterete, 6 inches thick, at least 15 feet high, branched 

 toward the top but occasionally from near the middle; wood 

 hard, heavy, brittle, quite without odor or taste, finely 

 grained, yellowish tinged; bark smooth, yellowish gray, other- 

 wise testaceus; branches divaricately spreading, rebranched, 



