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wider in the fruiting state, all subtended by acute subper- 

 sistent bracts, glabrous or puberulent, dull brick red, articu- 

 lated; pedicels whitish, 3 mm. long or shorter; calyx 3.5 

 mm. high, glabrous, 2 mm. wide across the truncately 4- 

 toothed apex, red, cup shaped, with rounded base; lateral 

 pedicels 3 mm. long, also glabrous, articulate and at the 

 apex provided with a pair of 1.25 mm. long teeth; corolla 

 tube brighter red, 1 cm. long, subglabrous; .bud dull red, 

 ellipsoid, the lobes imbricate and twisted; segments 6 mm. 

 long, nearly 4 mm. wide, oblong to elliptic, with truncately 

 rounded ends, dark red, rotately spreading in anthesis, in 

 age refiexed and with sides curved upon the nether side; 

 stamens 4, alternating with the segments and inserted upon 

 the throat; filaments short, glabrous, compressed; anther 3.5 

 mm. long, truncately constricted at the base into 2 lobes 

 and at the apex into a point, dorsifixed; style slender, glab- 

 rous, bearing 2 flattened fleshy stigmatic lobes. Fruits sub- 

 globose, 8 mm. in diameter, dark and shining red; its 

 pyrenes 2, subcircular and attached near the middle of the 

 ventral side. 



Type specimen number 13775, A. D, E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered in humus covered good soil upon steep dense- 

 ly wooded slopes at 3000 feet altitude, on the Dalahion river 

 side. "Bitajoyan" in Monobo. 



Only distantly related to J. inaequifolia C. B. Rob. and 

 to J. macgregorii of the same author. 



Ixora salicifolia Blm. 



Field-note: — Suberect undershrub; stem crooked, 2 

 yards high, the size of a man's finger, few branched toward 

 the top, the greenish wood covered with smooth latericius 

 bark; branches few, short, crooked, horizontal or descending; 

 leaves coriaceous, scattered along the twigs, subpendant, very 

 dark green and creased along the midrib above, much pal- 

 er green beneath, the midrib whitish; terminal inflorescence 

 odorless, all the stalks ruber red, the segments varying from 

 miniatus to ruber, even the bud state miniatus, tube incarnatus. 



