NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 193 



very small subgiandiilar teeth ; petioles 1 to 3 cm long ; lateral nerves 10 

 t.o 12 on each side of the midrib, rather distinct, the reticulations .lax. 

 Inflorescence axillary, shorter than the leaves, of racemosely arranged 

 cymes, the staminate and pistillate similar. Pistillate flowers white, 

 ample, their pedicels 7 to 10 mm long. Calyx of five free sepals, im- 

 bricate, elliptic-ovate, rounded, often slightly refuse, glabrous, 1.2 to 2 

 cm long, 6 to 12 mm wide, reticulate, apparently persistent. Petals 5, 

 imbricate, broadly elliptic-ovate, about 10 mm long, 8 mm wide, apex 

 rounded, not reticulate or nerved. Disk small. Staminodes none. 

 Ovary glabrous, longitudinally 3-sulcate, the lobes rounded, 3-celled, each 

 cell with a single ovule; styles 3, free, about 5 mm long, each cleft 

 half way to the base into two divergent arms. Staminate flowers smaller 

 than the pistillate ones. Calyx 5 to 6 mm long, cleft into five elliptic- 

 oblong, imbricate, obtuse lobes about 3 mm long and 2 to 2.5 mm wide. 

 Petals 5, free, imbricate, oblong-elliptic, rounded, 7 to 8 mm long, 4 nmi 

 wide. Disk-glands 5, prominent, white, 1.5 to 2 mm long. Stamens 

 15, the filaments all more or less united into a column, the interior ones 

 very short, the outer five longer and nearly free, these outer ones about 

 3.5 mm long, the free portions of the inner ones progressively shorter; 

 anthers introrse. Eudimentary ovary none. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Los Bancs, For. Bur. 11907 Tamesis, January 22, 

 1910, pistillate flowers; same locality, Bautista s. n., February 11, 1904, staminate 

 flowers. Borders of clearings, altitude about 100 m. 



AQUIFOLIACE^. 



ILEX Linn. 



Ilex foxworthyi sp. nov. § Thyrsoprinus, Indico-Malaicae. 



Arbor infiorescentiis exceptis glabra, circiter 8 m alta; foliis ovatis 

 vel elliptico-ovatis, coriaceis, usque ad 9 cm longis, nitidis, subtus obscure 

 minutissime dense puncticulatis et punctis majoribus sparsis intermixtis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 7; racemis axillaribus, solitariis, in alabastro 

 circiter 3 cm longis, puberulis, fioribus femineis 5- vel 6-meris. 



A tree about 8 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 

 gray, terete, wrinkled when .dry, not lenticellate. Leaves ovate to 

 elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, shining, brown or olivaceous when dry, and 

 slightly paler beneath, the margins recurved, entire, 4 to 9 cm long, 

 2.5 to 5 cm wide, the lower surface very minutely, obscurely, and densely 

 puncticulate, and with scattered larger points, the latter not prominent, 

 the apex shortly blunt- acuminate, base rather broad, acute; nerves 

 about 7 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, slender, obscurely 

 anastomosing, the reticulations lax, about as distinct on the upper sur- 

 face as on the lower; petioles 1 cm long or somewhat less on the smaller 

 leaves. Pistillate flowers racemose, the racemes axillary, solitary, simple, 

 in bud 3 cm long or less, puberulent, some flowers also occurring solitary 



