1018 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Based on Forestry Bureau number 9010, collected by 
Messrs. Whitford and Hutchinson at Port Banga, district of 
Zamboanga, Mindanao. 
Ixora palawanensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 238, 
1910. 
Based on Bureau of Science number 793, collected by Dr. 
F. W. Foxworthy near Iwahig, Palawan. 
Ixora longissima Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 235 1910. 
Based on Forestry Bureau number 16975, collected by 
Rosenbluth on the island of Leyte. 
Ixora philippinensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 
238, 1910. 
The type is based on Forestry Bureau number 2299, col- 
lected by R. Meyer along the Lamao river, province of Bataan, 
Luzon. This, like I. coccinea Linn., is an introduced species 
and is planted for ornamental purposes. 
Ixora littoralis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 240, 1910. 
Bureau of Science number 1274, collected by Mr. R. C. 
McGregor at Tagbilaran, Bohol. 
Ixora auriculata Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem terete, more or less wand-like, 3.5 cm. 
thick, 3 m. high; branches above the middle, long, widely 
spreading, sparingly rebranched, the ultimate ones somewhat 
drooping, very rigid, flattened and glabrous on the green 
twigs; wood moderately hard, yellowish white, slightly fetid, 
tasteless; bark dull brown, smooth or only obscurely lenti- 
celled. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, mostly descending, dull 
green above, much paler beneath, with a yellowish green 
midvein, flat, drying brown, widely scattering along the 
glabrous branchlets, opposite, sessile or nearly so, entire 
but edges irregularly corrugated in the dry state, linear ob- 
