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obscurely pubescent, the pedicels slender, 1 cm. long, ebracteolate. Calyx 3 mm. 

 long, minutely pubescent outside, the teeth 4, short. Corolla white, straight or 

 often curved, nearly .3 cm. long, slender, glabrous on the outside, the 4 broadly 

 linear lobes spreading, obtuse, 8 mm. long. Stamens 4, inserted on the throat 

 of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers linear, 12 mm. long, sagittate at 

 the base. Style slender, glabrous except for the puberulous exserted portion, 

 2 cm. longer than the corolla tube. Fruit 5 mm. in diameter, globose, glabrous, 

 black and strongly wrinkled when dry. 



(1369, 2037 Borden) July, October, 1904; (2G27 Meyer) February, 1905; (G7SS 

 Elmer) November, 1904 (type). Also No. 574 Whit ford, Sariaya, Province of 

 Tayabas, Luzon, August, 1904. 



18. IXORA Linn. 



L I. cocci nea Linn.; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 145. 



(1270 Whitford) May; (6118 Leiberg) July; (1463 Ahern's collector) July; 

 (2299 Meyer) December. In thickets near the seashore. British India and 

 Malaya. 



2. I. cumingiana \'ida], Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 183, ex descr. 



(1473, 1487, 1490 Ahern's collector) July, August; (1772, 1938 Borden) 

 August, October; (2242, 3015 Meyer) May; (3174, 3262 Merrill) October; (6658, 

 6868 Elmer) November; (297 Copeland) January; (31, 54 Whitford) April; 

 (6104 Leiberg) July. Abundant in thickets and forests 50 to 250 m. Endemic. 



The above specimens were all identified bj' Mr. Elmer as Ixora barbata Roxb., 

 but differ from that species in the glabrous, not barbate corolla throats. The 

 vegetative characters are very similar in both species. 



3. i. macrophylla Bartl. in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 487, ex descr. 



(613, 1759 Borden) April, August; (2611 Meyer) February; (6094 Leiberg) 

 July; (462 Topping) May; (1437 Ahern's collector) August; (6728 Elmer) 

 November; (2503, 3145 Merrill) June, October. Abundant in thickets and 

 forests, ascending to 500 m. Endemic. 



The above specimens were identified by Mr. Elmer as Ixora cumingiana Vidal, 

 but agi'ee more closely with the description of /. macrophylla Bartl. 



19. WEBERA Schreb. 



1. W. luzoniensis Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 179. 



(2505, 2524, 3260 Mern70 June, October; (i^Q Whitford) June; (2\9,S Meyer) 

 December; (6661 Elmer) November; (6160 Leiberg) July. In thickets and in 

 forests along streams below 150 m., abundant. Endemic. 



2. Webera meyeri (Palmer). 



A lax shrub about 5 m. high. Branches densely hirsute pubescent. Leaves 

 opposite, membranous, broadly oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 10 to 20 cm. 

 long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, shining above, hirsute pubescent on both surfaces with 

 scattered hairs, the pubescence becoming dense on the midrib and lateral nerves 

 beneath, the apex sharply acuminate, narrowed below to the acute base; nerves 

 about 10 on each side of the midrib, ascending, somewhat prominent beneath, 

 loosely anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, densely 

 hirsute; bracts 1 to 1.4 cm. long, hirsute, the base broad, slenderly long caudate 

 acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, 2 to 3 cm. long, densely hirsute 

 pubescent throughout, the peduncle very short, the primary branches about 

 1.5 cm. long, the bracts linear, about 8 mm. long. Flowers white, about 8 mm. 

 long, subsessile, clustered at the ends of the branches. Calyx densely hirsute 

 pubescent, 4 mm. long, 5-toothed, the teeth narrow, about as long as the tube, 

 subtended by 2 linear, hirsute bracteoles nearly as long as the calyx. Corolla 



