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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 I'ugosa 
Schmidt and is well characterized by its small, ovate, rather 
distinctly nerved and reticulate, eglandular leaves. In general 
appearance it resembles Ilex buergeri Miq., but it has much 
smaller leaves. 
ILEX PAUCINERVIA sp. nov. § Thyrsoprinus, 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 brunnea 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 
