SfiPTBMBKB 12, 1913] RUBIACEAE FROM MoiNT UrDASETA 1867 



the slender twigs quite rigid; leaves liorizontal, chartaceous, 

 paler green beneath; flat inflorescence pendant from the 

 stem, the branches and even from the terminal leaf axils; 

 stalks green or when old and exposed reddis^h or even deep 

 red, calyx similarly changing in color; corolla and stamens 

 white, stigma greenish, flowers odorless; fruits globosely com- 

 pressed, 0.5 inch across. 



Represented by number 13982, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



Collected in compact soil covered with dead foliage of 

 the dense forests on a steep ridge at 1250 feet of Giwan- 

 tawan. "Ligad" is its Manobo name. 



Ixora oblonsfifolia Elm. n. sp. 



Low but erect shrub; stem 1.5 cm. thick, 1 ni. higli 

 or higher, few branched at the top only; wood quite hard 

 and whitish, covered with smooth brown bark; branches 

 horizontal or descending, occasionally rebranched; twigs green, 

 glabrous and oidy subterete. Leaves heavy, leathery, pendant, 

 flat, lucid and dark green above, yellowish green beneath, 

 opposite, glabrous, entire, gradually acuminate at the slightly 

 recurved apex, base broadly rounded, oblong, sublucid on 

 the upper deeper green side, drying dull brown, the larger 

 blades 3 dm. long by 8 cm. wide across the middle or 

 below it, the smaller ones only one half as large; midrib 

 raised beneath, flat along the upper surface; lateral nerves 

 from 9 to 13 pairs, rather straight and oblique, their tips 

 usually branched at the distal ends and coarsely interarch- 

 ing, the reticulations coarse and equally evident from both 

 sides; petiole 1.5 to 3 cm. long, glabrous, subterete, 

 thickened at or toward the base; stipule interaxillary, 1 cm. 

 long or less, boat-like and encircling the stem, drying dark 

 brown, also glabrous, setaceously pointed. Inflorescence ter- 

 minal, pendant, 1 to 3 dm. long, branched and flower 

 bearing at the ends only; peduncle slender, subterete, sur- 

 rounded at the base by a stipulardike bract, reddish especial- 

 ly toward the end; branches opposite, the lower or longer 

 ones occasionally rebranched, compressed, at most 3 cm. 

 long, forming a corymbose raceme 3 cm. across or 2 cm. 



