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coriaceous, oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic, shining when 

 dry, 5 to 7 cm long, 1.5 to 2.8 cm wide, entire or sometimes 

 obscurely and distantly subcrenulate, the apex acute, slightly 

 acuminate, or blunt, the base usually somewhat decurrent-acu- 

 minate ; nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, obsolete above, 

 spreading, anastomosing, the reticulations very few, lax ; petioles 

 5 to 10 mm long. Pistillate flowers axillary, fascicled, two to 

 six in each axil, the pedicels about 4 mm long, each with a pair 

 of ovate, acuminate bracteoles at the lower one-fourth or one- 

 third. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx-lobes about 1.5 mm wide, 1 

 mm long, rounded. Petals free, 3 to 3.5 mm long, about 2 mm 

 wide, oblong-ovate, rounded. Staminodes about 2 mm long. 

 Ovary rhomboid-ovoid, 4-celled; stigma large, sessile, 1.5 mm in 

 diameter. Very immature fruit somewhat angled, wrinkled, 4 

 mm long, 4-celled. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, mountains back of San Mateo, comm. Leon 

 Guerrero, 1910. 



A species apparently allied to Ilex sumatrana Loesener, but quite dif- 

 ferent from that form. 



ILEX SUBCAUDATA sp. nov. § Thyrsoprinus, Indico-Malaicae. 



Frutex vel arbor parvus, glaber; foliis ovato-ellipticis, usque 

 ad 7 cm longis, integris, subcoriaceis, siccitate nitidis, breviter 

 petiolatis, utrinque acuminatis, apice subcaudatis, acuminibus 

 obtusis, circiter 1 cm longis; racemis $ axillaribus, solitariis 

 vel binis, quam folia paulo brevioribus; floribus 4-, rariter 5- 

 meris. 



An erect, glabrous shrub or small tree. Branches rather slen- 

 der, terete, wrinkled when dry, reddish-brown or grayish, not 

 lenticellate. Leaves scattered, the internodes 1 to 3.5 cm long, 

 ovate-elliptic, subcoriaceous, shining when dry, not punctate or 

 glandular, somewhat pale, 5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, 

 entire, the apex rather abruptly subcaudate-acuminate, the acu- 

 men about 1 cm long, blunt, straight or somewhat falcate, the 

 base somewhat acuminate, the margins not, or very slightly, re- 

 curved; nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, not 

 prominent, ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; peti- 

 oles 3 to 4 mm long; stipules, if present, very early deciduous. 

 Staminate racemes solitary or in pairs in the leaf -axils, 3 to 5 cm 

 long, each with from 10 to 20, slenderly pedicelled flowers, the 

 pedicels 4 to 5 cm long, each subtended by a small, ovate, obtuse 

 bracteole less than 1 mm long. Flowers 4-, rarely 5-merous. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, 0.5 to 0.8 mm long. Corolla-tube 1 

 mm long, the lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long. Anthers 



