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0.8 mm long. Ovary rudimentary. Pistillate flowers and fruits 

 unknown. 



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

 Guerrero, 1910. 



A species probably as closely allied to Ilex spicata Bl. as to any other 

 species, but abundantly distinct. 



ILEX PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. § Byronia, Eubyronia. 



Species 7. cymosae affinis, differt foliis crassissime coriaceis, 

 apice late rotundatis vel obtusis retusisque, vix acuminatis, flo- 

 ribus majoribus, ovario 4- vel 5-locellato. 



A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the somewhat pubes- 

 cent inflorescence. Branches terete, stout, dark-colored. Leaves 

 very thickly coriaceous, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 5 to 10 cm 

 long, 2.5 to 6 cm wide, entire, the apex broadly rounded to obtuse, 

 usually more or less retuse, never acuminate, the base somewhat 

 narrowed, acute or a little decurrent-acuminate, the margins 

 strongly revolute, the upper surface olivaceous when dry, some- 

 what shining, the lower shining, much paler; lateral nerves 7 

 or 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent, the 

 reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, 

 dark reddish-brown. Inflorescence cymose, sparingly cinereous- 

 pubescent, the cymes in the upper axils pseudo-terminal, many- 

 flowered, 2 to 5 cm long and wide. Flowers white, 5-merous, 

 the pedicels and calyx somewhat puberulent, the calyx-lobes 

 orbiculate-ovate, about 1.5 mm long, somewhat serrate-lacerate. 

 Petals 5, oblong to oblong-ovate, rounded, about 3 mm long. 

 Ovary 4- or 5-celled, glabrous, oblong, narrowed upward. Young 

 fruit narrowly ovoid. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Binuang, back of Infanta, Bur. Sci. 

 9^00 Robinson, August 28, 1909, in the mossy forest, altitude about 980 

 meters. 



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



Frutex ut videtur epiphyticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque pal- 

 lidis; foliis altemis, integris, coriaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad ellip- 

 tico-lanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis vel basi acutis, usque ad 5 

 cm longis, petiolatis, in siccitate nitidis, brunneis, nervis latera- 

 libus utrinque circiter 6, tenuibus, indistinctis ; inflorescentiis $ 

 axillaribus, solitariis, racemosis, racemis numerosis, multifloris, 

 2 ad 4 cm longis ; floribus 4- vel 5-meris, petalis 2 mm longis. 



Apparently an epiphytic shrub, quite glabrous or the racemes 

 very slightly and obscurely pubescent. Branches pale gray, te- 

 rete, slightly wrinkled when dry, the branchlets similar, some- 

 what angled, 1 to 1.2 mm thick. Leaves alternate, 3 to 5 cm 



