NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VI. 237 



glabrous, sliining. ovoid, 1.5 to 2 cm long, somewhat flattened on the two 

 inner sides, apparently three in each I'niit. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Antipolo, Merrill IIIG, IMavcli, 1903; Santander, 

 liiir. Sci. 3270 Ramos, June, 1907: Province of Tayabas (Infanta), WhitforJ 

 S:it, September, 1904. The same species is apparently represented by the follow- 

 ing specimens in Herb. Kew: Cuming lJf68; Vidal 1112, 2380, 3815, and Lohcr 

 5213, all from the Philippines. 



Tlie only representative of the genus known from the Philippines, about 12 

 species being known from tropical America, one from Queensland and one from 

 Madagascar. Tlie material available is not sufficient to draw up a complete 

 diagnosis, flowers being immature and fruit opened, so that it is impossible to 

 describe the entire fruit. 



AQUIFOLIACE^. 



ILEX Linn. 

 Ilex gracilipes sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, 3 ad 4 m alta, glaljra; foliis oblongo-ovatis vel elliptico- 

 ovatis, membranaceis, acnminatis, margine apiculato-denticiilatis ; floribus 

 3- ad 5-meris, solitariis vel fasciculatis, axillaribus, longe pedunculatis ; 

 pedimculis ca. 1 cm longis, friictiferis longioribus. 



A small tree 3 to 4 m high, glabrous, the branches and branchlets 

 slender, terete, reddish-brown, lenticellate. Leaves oblong-ovate to ellip- 

 tical-ovate, membranaceous, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 1 to 3 cm wide, opaque or 

 obscurely minutely punctate, shining, base acute, the apex rather long- 

 acuminate, the acumen apiculate, the margins regularly apiculate-den- 

 ticulate; neiwes 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, 

 anastomosing; petioles slender, 5 mm long or less. Flowers solitary or 

 in 2- to 4-flowered fascicles in the axils of the leaves, long-pedicelled, 

 the pedicels about 1 cm long, much elongated in fruit. Calyx ahout 2 

 mm in diameter, 3- to 5-lobed, the lobes orbicular-rcniform, 0.5 mm 

 long the margins shortly obscurely ciliate. Corolla lobes 3 to 5, im- 

 bricate, orlncular, rounded, al^out 1.5 mm long, the tube 0.5 mm long. 

 Stamens 3 to 5, inserted on the corolla and alternating with the lobes, 

 the filaments and anthers each 0.8 mm long. Ovary usually 5-celled, with 

 a single pendulous ovule in each cell ; stigma capitate. Fruit subglobose 

 or ovoid, 5 to 6 mm long, with about 15 longitudinal ridges, usually 

 with 5 nutlets, the peduncles 2 to 3 cm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Williams 10J,1, May, 1904; Bur. Sci. 2839 Mearns, 

 April, 1907; Elmer; Loher 5120: Province of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, For. Bur. 

 8060 Curran cC- Merritt, December, 1007: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 

 Whitford JflJf: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. 8ci. 2115, 2611 Ramos, February, 

 May, 1907. 



A very cliaracteristic species readily recognizable by its solitary or fascicled, 

 long-pedicelled flowers, very long-pedicel led fruits and membranaceous leaves which 

 are apiculate-denticulate. The flowers are sometimes 3- to 5-merous on the 

 same plants. 



