NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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mm in. diameter; seeds numerous, angular, black, about 0.3 mm in 
diameter. 
Panay, Dumarao, in damp, shaded ravines along streams, at an altitude of 
about 100 m, Merrill 670Jf, March 25, 1910. 
A species well characterized by its ample leaves and dense pubescence. A 
specimen from Maagnas, Province of Camarines, Luzon, Bur. Sci. 6326 Robinson, 
August, 1908, may be referable here, but in this plant the capsules are pilose, not 
glabrous. 
IXORA Linn. 
Ixora capitulifera sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra circiter 10 m alta; foliis subcoriaceis, in sicco brunneis, 
nitidis, oblongis vel oblongo-obovatis, acuminatis, basi leviter rotundatis, 
breviter petiolatis; floribus circiter 1.5 cm longis, subsessilibus, in capit- 
ulis parvis, densis, longe pedunculatis dispositis ; calycis dentibus quam 
tubus brevioribus. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high. Branches terete, stout, grayish. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, 4 to 11 cm long, 1.5 to 5 cm wide, 
subcoriaceous, brown and shining on both surfaces when dry, the apex 
shortly and usually . bluntly acuminate, rarely nearly acute, the base 
narrowed, somewhat rounded, rarely subacute ; nerves about 12 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, brown, distinct, anastomosing; petioles less 
than 2. mm long. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, the peduncles 
slender, 2 to 4 cm long, each subtended by from 2 to 4, distichous, broadly 
ovate, acuminate bracts about 2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, usually with 
a pair of smaller, narrower bracts above the middle. Flowers 5 to 8 at 
the end of each peduncle, sessile, congested, the calyces forming a rather 
dense head less than 6 mm in diameter. Calyx 2 mm long, the teeth 4, 
triangular- ovate, acute or somewhat obtuse, small, the bracteoles 2, linear, 
about 1 mm long. Corolla-tube 13 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, the 
lobes four, elliptic, rounded or obtuse, about 4 mm long, 2.5 mm wide. 
Palawan, Mount Victoria, in forests along streams at an altitude of about 
1,050 m, Bur. Sci. 686 Foxworthy , March 23, 1906, the flowers said to be pinkish 
or whitish, with a faint wintergreen odor. 
The species is a very characteristic one, readily recognizable by its slenderly 
peduncled capitate inflorescence. 
Ixora crassifolia sp. nov. 
■ Arbor parva usque ad 9 m alta, inflorescentiis puberulis exceptis glabra, 
foliis crassissime coriaceis, ellipticis vel oblongo-elliptici's, apice rotundatis 
vel leviter retusis, usque ad 34 cm longis, nitidis, utrinque in sicco dense 
minute rugosis, nervis utrinque circiter 10; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
puberulis, circiter 9 cm longis, dense multifloris ;. floribus circiter 2.5 cm 
longis. 
A small tree 9 m high or less, glabrous except the somewhat cinereous- 
puberulent inflorescence. Branches rather stout, brown or grayish. 
Leaves elliptic, broadly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 14 to 24 cm long, 7 
