NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 233 



mm iu diameter; seeds numerous, augiilar, black, about 0.3 mm in 

 diameter. 



Panay, Dumarao, in damp, shaded ravines along streams, at an altitude of 

 about 100 m, Merrill 670//, March 25, 1910. 



A species well characterized by its ample leaves and dense pubescence. A 

 specimen from Maagnas, Province of Camarines, Luzon, Bur. Sci. 6326 Robinson, 

 August, 1908, may be referable here, but in this plant the capsules are pilose, not 

 glabrous. 



IXORA Linn. 



Ixora capitulifera sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra circiter 10 m alta; foliis subcoriaceis, in sicco brunneis, 

 nitidis, oblongis vel oblongo-obovatis, acuminatis, basi leviter rotundatis, 

 breviter petiolatis; fioribus circiter 1.5 cm longis, subsessilibus, in capit- 

 ulis parvis, densis, longe pedunculatis dispositis; calycis dentibus quam 

 tubus brevioribus. 



A glabrous tree about 10 m high. Branches terete, stout, grayish. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, 4 to 11 cm long, 1.5 to 5 cm wide, 

 subcoriaceous, brown and shining on both surfaces when dry, the apex 

 shortly and usually bluntly acuminate, rarely nearly acute, the base 

 narrowed, somewhat rounded, rarely subacute; nerves about 12 on each 

 side of the midril), slender, brown, distinct, anastomosing; petioles less 

 than 2 mm long. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, the peduncles 

 slender, 2 to 4 cm long, each subtended by from 2 to 4, distichous, broadly 

 ovate, acuminate bracts about 2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, usually with 

 a pair of smaller, narrower bracts above the middle. Flowei'S 5 to 8 at 

 the end of each peduncle, sessile, congested, the calyces forming a rather 

 dense head less than 6 mm in diameter. Calyx 2 mm long, the teeth 4, 

 triangular-ovate, acute or somewhat obtuse, small, the bracteoles 2, linear, 

 about 1 mm long. Corolla-tube 13 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, the 

 lobes four, elliptic, rounded or obtuse, about 4 mm long, 2.5 mm wide. 



Palawan, Mount Victoria, in forests along streams at an altitude of about 

 1,050 m, Bur. Sci. 6S6 Foxworthy, March 23, 1906, the flowers said to be pinkisli 

 or whitish, with a faint wintergreeu odor. 



The species is a very characteristic one, readily recognizable by its slenderly 

 peduncled capitate inflorescence. 



Ixora crassifolia sp. nov. 



Arbor parva usque ad 9 m alta, inflorescentiis puberulis exceptis glabra, 

 foliis crassissime coriaceis, ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, apice rotundatis 

 vel leviter retusis, usque ad 34 cm longis, nitidis, utrinque in sicco dense 

 minute inigosis, nervis utrinque circiter 10; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 

 puberulis, circiter 9 cm longis, dense multifloris; floribus circiter 2.5 cm 

 longis. 



A small tree 9 m high oi- less, glabrous except the somewhat cinereous- 

 puberulent inflorescence. Branches rather stout, brown or grayish. 

 Leaves elliptic, broadly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 14 to 24 cm long, 7 



