X, c, 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 319 



long, 1.4 to 3 cm wide, oblong-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, about 

 equally narrowed to the somewhat blunt-acuminate apex and to 

 the acute or somewhat acuminate base, entire, coriaceous, when 

 dry strongly shining on the upper surface, a little paler on the 

 lower surface, uniformly dark brown, the lower surface very 

 minutely, densely, and obscurely puncticulate, and with few, scat- 

 tered, larger, dark glands; lateral nerves about 6 on each side 

 of the midrib, very slender, obscure, anastomosing, the reticu- 

 lations obsolete or nearly so; petioles about 5 mm long. Male 

 racemes axillary, solitary, rarely 2 in an axil, numerous, 2 to 

 4 cm long, many-flowered, glabrous or very obscurely and spar- 

 ingly pubescent, the flowers sometimes solitary at the nodes of 

 the racemes, more often in fascicles of from 2 to 6, their pedicels 

 slender, up to 5 mm long, the bracteoles narrowly ovate, 0.5 

 mm long. Flowers white, 4- and 5-merous in the same raceme. 

 Calyx glabrous, about 2.5 mm in diameter, the lobes broadly 

 elliptic-ovate to suborbicular, broadly rounded, 0.5 mm long. 

 Petals narrowly oblong, 2 mm long, rounded or obtuse, glabrous. 

 Filaments 2 mm long; anthers somewhat ovoid, 0.8 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Pular, Bur. Sci. 19U61 Ramos, 

 January 15, 1913. 



Said by the collector to grow on trees at the summit of the mountain. 

 Most closely allied to Ilex halconensis Merr., from which it differs in its 

 smaller, obscurely nerved, brown leaves, more numerous racemes, and 

 smaller flowers. 



CELASTRACEAE 



MICROTROPIS Wallich 

 MICROTROPIS PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra; foliis coriaceis, in siccitate pallidis, usque ad 

 20 cm longis, petiolatis, breviter acuminatis, basi decurrento- 

 acuminatis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12; cymis axillaribus, extra- 

 axillaribusque, pedunculatis, usque ad 2.5 cm longis, multifloris, 

 floribus 5-meris, sessilibus, capitato confertis; capsulis ellipsoi- 

 deis, acutis vel apiculato-acuminatis, circiter 1.5 cm longis. 



Apparently a tree, quite glabrous. Branches terete, reddish- 

 brown or pale when dry, the tips of the branchlets somewhat 

 compressed. Leaves large, coriaceous, pale, and somewhat shin- 

 ing when dry, the lower surface somewhat brownish, 12 to 20 

 cm long, 5.5 to 12 cm wide, subequally narrowed at both ends, 

 elliptic-ovate, apex shortly and sharply acuminate, base decur- 

 rent-acuminate ; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, slender, anastomosing, the reticulations rather close, fine, 

 distinct; petioles stout, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Cymes axillary and 



