January 11, 1911] New anp Norewortuy RUBIACEAE 1017 
Ixora congesta Roxb. Hort. Beng. 83. 
This species has recently been collected in Mindanao, 
A close ally of J. leytensis Elm. 
Ixora cumingiana Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. 183, 1885, 
I, barbata Roxb. by Elmer Leaf. Philip. Bot. I; 9, 1906. 
About as common and as widely spread as J. macrophylla 
Bartl. Throat glabrous, not barbate. 
Ixora ebracteata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 235, 
1910. 
Type is Curran’s from Zambales province, Forestry Bureau 
number 5845. There are a number of other sheets in the 
herbarium, all from the some province. Number 12335 of 
my recent collection on Sibuyan island is typical, and I 
therefore attach my field-note:—Slender erect tree in moist 
red gravelly soil of woods along the Sinuban creek at 750 
feet; stem 1.25 dm. thick, 9 m. high, branched above the 
middle; branchlets suberect, comparatively short and form- 
ing an elongated crown; wood brownish white, odorless and 
tasteless, hard, brittle, heavy; bark smoothish, dull brown 
to gray on the branches. Leaves ascending, curved upon the 
upper side, dull green, a trifle paler beneath. Inflorescence 
erect, its main peduncles green and subterete, the pedicels 
and ealyx purplish brown; corolla nearly 2 em. long, 4-lobed, 
white; the short filaments and style also whitish; anthers 
as well as the stigma yellowish; fruit globosely flattened, 
dark wine red when mature, usually with 2 seeds. This is 
another one I allowed to slip by under the old name, Z. 
amboinica DC. 
Ixora mearnsii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 236, 1910. 
The type is Bureau of Science number 2999, collected 
by Maj. E. A. Mearns at Casiguran, province of Tayabas, Luzon. 
Ixora mindanaensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 237, 
1910. 
