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usque ad 15 cm longis, in sicco nitidis, plei-unuiue brunneis, breviter 

 acuniinatis vel acutis, basi late rotimdatis plenimque distincte cordatis ; 

 cjnnis puberulis. terminalibus, paucifloris, breviter pedunculatis, densis; 

 floribus 1.8 ad 2.2 cm longis, calycis dentibus minutis, apicalato-aeum- 

 inatis, quam tubus breVioribus. 



A shi'iil) or smalltree 2 to 7 m high, glabrous except the usually puber- 

 ulent inflorescence. Branches grayish to reddish-brown, terete. Leaves 

 oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate or ovate, shining when dry, usually brownish, 

 paler beneath, subcoriaceons, 6 to 15 cm long, 2 to 6 cm wide, rarely 

 wider, the apex shortly and broadly acuminate, acute, oi- j'arely obtuse, 

 usually minutely apiculate by the excurrent midril), the base broadly 

 rounded, usually distinctly cordate, the uppermost leaves sometimes some- 

 what surrounding the stems; petioles none or very short, rarely reaching 

 a length of 3 mm ; primary nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender, usuallv brown and distinct beneath, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions brown, slender, distinct; stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 prominently acuminate, 3 to 5 mm long. Cymes terminal, solitary, 

 usually somewhat puberulent, their peduncles mostly 1 to 1.5 cm long, 

 often subtended by a pair of reduced, ovate or suborl)icular, cordate leaves 

 1 to 3 cm in length; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 to 1.8 mm 

 long. Flowers white to pale-pink, shortly pedicelled or sessile, crowded, 

 forming a dense inflorescence which, excluding the corollas, is less than 



1 cm in diameter, 10 or usually less flowers in each cyme, the branches 

 very short. Calyx 2 mm long, slightly ])uberu]ent, the teeth very broad, 

 minute, abruptly apiculate-acuminate, less than 0.3 mm long, the brac- 

 teoles lanceolate, acuminate, less than 1 mm long. Corolla-tube 1.8 to 



2 cm long, usually slightly hairy outside, the lobes coriaceous, elliptic- 

 oblong, rounded or obtuse, about 7 mm long, 3.5 mm wide. Anthers 

 3.5 mm long, apiculate. Stigma 3 mm long, cleft, slightly exserted. 

 Fruit ovoid, apparently red when dry, the pericarp slightly fleshy, glabrous, 

 slightly or distinctly beaked, nearly 1 cm long when nuitui'e, usually 

 distinctly longitudinally depressed between the seeds. 



The type of this species is For. Bur. 2299 Meyer, from the Lamao River, 

 Province of Bataaii, Luzon; other specimens from the same locality are Whitford 

 1210, Leiberg 6118, Williams 378, For. Bur. 202.'t Borden, and For. Bur. l.',6S 

 Ahern's collector. 



Ixora philippinensis includes most of the Philippine specimens that recently 

 have been identified as Ixora coccinea Linn., and it appears to be one of the 

 most widely distributed and abundant species in the Archipelago. Of our 

 abundant material, for the most part distributed as Ixora coccinea Linn., I 

 would refer to Ixora philippinensis specimens from the Batanes and Babuyanes 

 Islands, from tlie Provinces of Ilocos Norte, Zambales, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, 

 Bulaean, Rizal, Tayabas, and Camarines in Luzon, and from the Islands of ]\lin- 

 doro, Lubang, Guimaras, Negros, Panay, Palawan, Balabac, and Mindanao. 



Ixora philippinensis is manifestly closely allied to Ixora coccinea Linn., espe- 

 ciallv in its sessile or subsessile, cordate leaves and other vegetative characters. 



