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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, 8 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. § Thyrsoprimis, 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 
