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the ultimate branehlets, the middle one of each triad sessile or subsessile, 
the two lateral ones with pedicels 3 to 5 mm in length, the bracts and 
bracteoles wanting. Calyx glabrous, ovoid, about 3 mm long, the teeth 
broadly triangular-ovate, acute, 0.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 6 to’ 9 mm 
long, about 2 mm in diameter, the lobes 4, elliptic-oblong, acute or slightly 
acuminate, 6 mm long, 2.5 to 3 mm wide. Anthers 3.5 mm long, lanceo- 
late, acuminate. Style slightly exserted ; stigma cleft, 2 mm long. Fruit 
ovoid, smooth, somewhat fleshy when fresh, 8 mm long or less, dark- 
colored when dry. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mahumaling, For. Bur. 584-5 Curran, January, 
1907 (type), on dry cogon-covered slopes; other specimens from the same province 
are: Bur. Sci. 4198, 5038 Ramos,- For. Bur. 375 Maule, Merrill 2953, 2985, 2080. 
Various local names are pamutim, pilis, lumboy-manoc, talab, and tatanic. 
The species is entirely different from Ixora amboinica DC., to which Mr. Elmer 
referred several of the specimens above cited; it is distinguished from the 
majority of the species in the genus by the entire absence of bracts and bracteoles. 
Ixora longissima sp. nov. 
Arbuscula erecta, glabra; foliis petiolatis, lanceolatis, usque ad 40 cm 
longis, crasse membranaceis, sensim longe acuminatis, margine minute 
crenato-undulatis ; cymis terminalibus, dilfusis, amplis, multifloris ; 
floribus circiter 5 cm longis; ealycis dentibus acutis, quam tubus brev- 
ioribus. 
An erect glabrous shrub. Branches terete, pale-brown, smooth and 
shining. Leaves lanceolate, about 40 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, thickly 
chartaceous, shining when dry, the base acute or somewhat decurrent- 
acuminate, gradually narrowed upward into the long, slender, acuminate 
apex, the margins minutely erenate-undulate ; nerves about 23 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, not very prominent, anastomosing, the reti- 
culations lax; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long; stipules very broad, connate, 
abruptly acuminate, about 5 mm long. Cymes terminal, very large, 
trichotomously branched and rebranched, the peduncle stout, about 5 mm 
long, the primary branches about as long as the peduncle, spreading, the 
whole inflorescence, including the corollas, about 20 cm wide. Flowers 
apparently pink or reddish, numerous, in triads on the ultimate branch- 
lets, the middle one of each triad sessile, the two lateral ones with 
pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, the bracts oblong-ovate, acuminate, 2 to 3 mm 
long, the bracteoles similar but smaller, 1 mm long. Calyx 2 mm long, 
the teeth ovate, acute, about 0.5 mm long. Corolla-tube slender, about 
4.5 cm long, the lobes broadly ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, thin, reticulate, about 10 mm long, 4 mm wide. 
Leyte, without definite locality, For. Bur. 16975 Rosenbluth, March, 1909. 
A species well characterized by its very long leaves which are long and slenderly 
acuminate, as well as by its ample, diffuse panicles and very long flowers. It is 
probably most closely allied to Ixora salicifolia DC., but seems to be sufficiently 
distinct. 
