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usque ad 15 cm lougis, in sicco nitidis, plerumque brunneis, breviter 
acuminatis vel acutis, basi late rotundatis plerumque distincte cordatis; 
cymis puberulis, terminalibus, paucifloris, breviter pedunculatis, densis; 
floribus 1.8 ad 2.2 cm lougis, calycis dentibus minutis, apiculato-acum- 
inatis, quam tubus brevioribus. 
A shrub or small tree 2 to 7 m high, glabrous except the usually puber- 
ulent inflorescence. Branches grayish to reddish-brown, terete. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate or ovate, shining when dry, usually brownish, 
paler beneath, subcoriaceous, 6 to 15 cm long, 2 to 6 cm wide, rarely 
wider, the apex shortly and broadly acuminate, acute, or rarely obtuse, 
usually minutely apiculate by the excurrent midrib, the base broadly 
rounded, usually distinctly cordate, the uppermost leaves sometimes some- 
what surrounding the stems; petioles none or very short, rarely reaching 
a length of 3 mm; primary nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, usually brown and distinct beneath, anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions brown, slender, distinct; stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
prominently acuminate, 3 to 5 mm long. Cymes terminal, solitary, 
usually somewhat puberulent, their peduncles mostly 1 to 1.5 cm long, 
often subtended by a pair of reduced, ovate or suborbicular, cordate leaves 
1 to 3 cm in length; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 to 1.8 mm 
long. Flowers white to pale-pink, shortly pedicelled or sessile, crowded, 
forming a dense inflorescence which, excluding the corollas, is less than 
1 cm in diameter, 10 or usually less flowers in each cyme, the branches 
very short. Calyx 2 mm long, slightly puberulent, the teeth very broad, 
minute, abruptly apiculate-acuminate, less than 0.3 mm long, the brac- 
teoles lanceolate, acuminate, less than 1 mm long. Corolla-tube 1.8 to 
2 cm long, usually slightly hairy outside, the lobes coriaceous, elliptic- 
oblong, rounded or obtuse, about 7 mm long, 3.5 mm wide. Anthers 
3.5 mm long, apiculate. Stigma 2 mm long, cleft, slightly exserted. 
Fruit ovoid, apparently red when dry, the pericarp slightly fleshy, glabrous, 
slightly or distinctly beaked, nearly 1 cm long when mature, usually 
distinctly longitudinally depressed between the seeds. 
The type of this species is For. Bur. 2299 Meyer, from the Lamao River, 
Province of Bataan, Luzon; other specimens from the same locality are Whitford 
1210, Leiberg 6118, Williams 318, For. Bur. 2021/. Borden, and For. Bur. 1J/.63 
Ahern’s collector. 
Ixora philippinensis includes most of the Philippine specimens that recently 
have been identified as Ixora coccinea Linn., and it appears to be one of .the 
most widely distributed and abundant species in the Archipelago. Of our 
abundant material, for the most part distributed as Ixora coccinea Linn., I 
would refer to Ixora philippinensis specimens from the Batanes and Babuyanes 
Islands, from the Provinces of Ilocos Norte, Zambales, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, 
Bulacan, Rizal, Tayabas, and Camarines in Luzon, and from the Islands of Min- 
doro, Lubang, Guimaras, Negros, Panay, Palawan, Balabac, and Mindanao. 
Ixora phil ippinensis is manifestly closely allied to Ixora coccinea Linn., espe- 
cially in its sessile or subsessile, cordate leaves and other vegetative characters, 
