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diameter, obscurely 4-lobed, lobes slightly ciliate, the pedicels up 

 to 4 mm in length. Flowers axillary, solitary or sometimes two 

 or three in a fascicle, the pedicels subtended by several small 

 bracts. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 18069 

 Curran, Merritt, & Zschokke, January 6, 1908, on slopes in the 

 mossy forest, altitude about 2,500 meters. 



This species apparently belongs in the group with Ilex rugosa 

 Schmidt and is well characterized by its small, ovate, rather 

 distinctly nerved and reticulate, eglandular leaves. In general 

 appearance it resembles Ilex huergeri Miq., but it has much 

 smaller leaves. 



ILEX PAUCINERVIA sp. nov. § Thyrsoprintis, Indico-Malaicae. 



Frutex vel arbor parva glabra; foliis integris, coriaceis, ob- 

 longo-ellipticis ad oblongis, usque ad 4 cm longis, eglandulosis, 

 supra minutissime puncticulatis, utrinque aequaliter angustatis, 

 basi acutis, apice obtusis retusisque, in siccitate castaneis vel 

 brunneis, nitidis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, reticulis obsoletis; in- 

 , florescentiis racemosis, axillaribus, solitariis, 5- ad 10-floris, 

 floribus 5-meris; fructibus circiter 3 mm diametro. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, the branches and branchlets 

 grayish yellow or the very young parts sometimes reddish 

 brown. Leaves numerous, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to oblong, 

 2 to 4 cm long, 10 to 18 mm wide, not glandular, the upper 

 surface very minutely pitted, brown or castaneous and some- 

 what shining when dry, entire, subequally narrowed to the acute 

 base and to the obtuse and distinctly retuse apex ; lateral nerves 

 slender, somewhat ascending, 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, 

 not prominent, arched-anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete 

 or nearly so ; petioles 2 to 4 mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary, 

 usually about .1 cm long, 5- to 10-flowered; flowers 5-merous, 

 their pedicels about 2 mm long. Fruits brown, ovoid or globose, 

 about 3 mm in diameter, each containing 5 pyrenes, the persis- 

 tent calyx about 2 mm in diameter, the lobes suborbicular, 

 rounded, entirely glabrous. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 

 26396 Ramos & Eclano, August 19, 1916, in forest at the summit, 

 altitude probably about 1,000 meters. This number was 

 originally identified as Ilex hrunnea Merr. 



This species is well characterized by its oblong-elliptic to 

 oblong leaves which are eglandular but which are minutely pitted 

 on the upper surface and are further subequally narrowed to the 

 acute base and to the obtuse and retuse apex. It is somewhat 



