1020 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 
Ixora bartlingii Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub; stem 7.5 cm. thick, 4 mm. high, subterete, 
branched toward the top only; branchlets lax, slender, widely 
spreading, crookedly rebranched; wood quite hard and heavy, 
yellowish, brown in the center, tasteless, with a peculiar odor 
reminding one of decaying fresh fruits; bark dull brown, 
&moothish. Leaves glabrous, mostly horizontal, slightly re- 
eurved, shining green on the upper side, much paler beneath, 
chartaceous or membranaceous, entire margins, 2.5 dm. long, 
1 dm. wide across the middle, frequently much smaller, 
oblong, abruptly acute at apex, base in the smaller blades 
obtuse the: larger ones rounded, oblong; petiole averaging 2 
em. long, glabrous, brown; stipule persistent, forming a shal- 
low rather thick rim, the midvein portion extended into a 
setaceous point, 1 cm. long; veins brown, conspicuous espe- 
cially beneath, smooth, brown, 11 to 17 on each side of 
the very prominent midvein, brown, their ends more or less 
united, reticulations coarse and quite conspicuous. Inflor- 
escence terminal, usually subtended by a pair of stipules 
and a pair of small leaves; peduncles slender, glabrous, pen- 
dulously recurved, usually solitary, 2 to 3 em. long; branches 
divaricate, forming a loose dichotomously branched cyme 1 
dm. across, deep red, glabrous, articulate and subtended by 
short sharply acute bracts; pedicels 5 mm. long, also artic- 
ulate; calyx turbinate, 3 mm. long, as smooth and of the 
same color as the stalks, subtended by a pair of minute 
acute bracts, bluntly 4-toothed; segments of corolla 4, ven- 
ose on the lower side, oblong, 9 mm. long, obtuse, 4 mm. wide, 
the sides curved upon the under side, reflexed; tube 1.5 cm. 
long at least, glabrous, creamy white as are also: the seg- 
ments, tube at the base pinkish; stamens 4, inserted on 
the throat; filaments also whitish, flattened, 3 mm. long; 
anthers 5 mm. long, acute at both ends, attached on the 
back below the middle, versatile and reflexed upon the fila- 
ments; slender style glabrous, of the same color; stigma fleshy, 
broad, flattened, greenish; fruit globosely and obscurely flatten- 
ed, 2-celled, 2-seeded, 7.5 mm. across; seeds circular, plano- 
convex, attached to the middle. 
