234 MERRILL. 



to 18 cm wide, very tliieklv coriaceous, somewliat sliiuiug, wlicn dry 

 minutely and denst'ly rugose on l)oth surfaces, the apex rather broadly 

 rounded, sometimes slightly retuse, the base acute or somewhat acuminate, 

 i-arely broadly rounded; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 

 distinct, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles stout, 1 to 2 cm long; 

 stipules very broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate, 5 to 7 mm long, deciduous. 

 Inflorescence terminal, pubcrulent, coi-ymbose, subtended by one or two 

 pairs of broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate bracts 8 mm long or less, with 

 two lateral basal bi'aiu-lies, the rachis short, trichotomously branched, the 

 l)rimaiT branches stout, o to 5 cm long, all subtrichotomously branched at 

 their ai)ices, forming a rather dense inflorescence about 9 cm long, and 

 as wide oi- wider llian l<jng. Flowers white or greenish-white, rather 

 densely crowded at the ends of the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels 1 

 to 2 mm long, ebracteolate. Calyx ovoid, puberulent, about 2 mm long, 

 with 4 short, bioadly ovate, acute teeth about 0.3 mm long. Corolla-tube 

 rather slender, 2.4 cm long, 2 mm wide when more or less flattened out, 

 the lobes 4, spreading or reflexed, oblong, rounded, 7 mm long, 4 mm 

 wide. Anthers linear, 5 mm long, the filaments exserted about 3 mm. 

 Style slender, exserted about fi mm. the arms thickened, more or less 

 flattened, about 2 mm long. 



MiN'DANAO, District of Zamboanga. Port Banga, For. Bur. !)039, 9070, 'JJ/SO 

 (type), O.'fJO Whitford & Hutchinson, December, 1907, and February, 1908, in 

 dipterocarp forests at from 30 to 50 m above the sea. 



A species well characterized by its unusually large, very coriaceous leaves, 

 which, when dry, are rather pale and minutely, densely rugose on both surfaces. 



Ixora ebracteolata sp. nov. , 



Ixora amboinica Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 9, non DC. 



Arbuscula vel arbor parva, 3 ad 8 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; 

 foliis petiolatis, coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, in si ceo brunneis, nitidis, 

 oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, obtusis vel late brevissime acuminatis, 

 basi acutis, nervis utrinque circitcr 10, distinctis; cymis terminalibus, 

 puberulis vel subglabris, pcdunculatis, multifloris; floribus !) ad 12 mm 

 longis, ebi'acteolatis. 



An erect shrub or tree 3 to 8 m high, glabrous except tlie inflorescence 

 which is usually puberulent. Branches terete, gray, the younger ones 

 usually reddish-brown. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, 6 to 12 cm long, 

 2.5 to 5 cm wide, the base acute or decurrent-acuminate, the apex obtuse, 

 rounded, or broadly and ol)tusely short-acuminate, biown and shining 

 when di-y, the lower surface paler than the upper; primary nerves about 

 10 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, brown, distinct, the reticula- 

 tions rather lax, distinct; petioles 5 to 10 mm long; stipules lanceolate- 

 acuminate fj'om an ovate base, 5 mm long or less. Inflorescence terminal, 

 rather dense, 5 U> 7 cm in diameter, usually pubci-uhMit. sometimes 

 glabrous pedunclcif. inany-lldwcicd. the iicduncles 3 to T) cm long, the lower 

 lii'nTiclH'S spreading, about 2 cm long. Flowers white, mostly in triads on 



