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Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, about 12 cm long, the peduncle 
nearly 8 cm long, then trifurcate, the secondary peduncles 15 to 18 mm 
long, again trifurcate, tertiary peduncles about 1 cm long, each bearing 
3 flowers on pedicels usually 5 m m long or some slightly longer or much 
shorter; bracts paired at each fork of the inflorescence and at the base 
of the fruits, similar, narrowly triangular-lanceolate with a widened 
base, about 3 mm long, acute: calyx subpersistent, the tube about 1 
mm long, the 4 lobes lanceolate, obtuse, 3 mm long; fruits 7 to 9 mm 
in diameter, pale-green flushed with red, 2-celled, each cell with 1 seed 
about 6 mm long, its testa bony. 
A shrub, entirely glabrous except for the lepidote under surface of 
the leaves, the branchlets somewhat angled: leaves opposite, sessile, coria- 
ceous, those of each pair similar but those of different pairs very dissi- 
milar, one type oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 12 to 20 cm long, 
3 to 5.5 cm wide, the base auricled, the apex abruptly contracted into 
an acumen not over 5 mm long, the other type elliptic, 23 to 30 mm 
long, 12 to 13 mm wide, the base round, the apex acuminate as in the 
larger type ; primary lateral veins of each side of larger leaves 15 to 
20, with intermediate veins often nearly as prominent, the finer reticula- 
tion lax, the veins of the smaller leaves rather fewer and much closer; 
intemodes between the smaller leaves and the larger ones next below 
much shorter than between the smaller ones and the larger next above; 
stipules interpetiolar, about 4.5 mm long, the nearly semicircular base 
about twice as long as the slender acumen. 
Polillo, in forest, Bur. Sci. 10216 McGregor. The species has much, similarity 
to I. auriculata Elmer, but differs very strikingly by the presence of the smaller 
leaves', the larger ones also having a somewhat different outline, while the 
stipules are much shorter and more shortly acuminate. It is also similar, but 
less so, to I. philippinensis Merr. 
Ixora macgregorii sp. nov. 
Frutex : inflorescentiis terminalibus, paniculato-corymbosis, floribus 
bibracteolatis ; calycis tubo et lobis subaequilongis ; corollae tubo sub- 
cylindrico, lobis late lanceolatis, acutis, revolutis; filamentis crassis, 
antheris linearibus, sagittatis : foliis submembranaceis, lanceolatis vel 
oblongo-lanceolatis, basi rotundatis sed ima basi acutis, apice acumi- 
natis. 
Panicles terminal, subcorymbose, the peduncle 3 to 4 cm long, its 
branches opposite, the lowest about 8 mm long, decreasing in length 
toward the apex' of the inflorescence, the secondary branches about 5 
mm long, bearing sessile or pedicelled flowers and usually an addi- 
tional peduncle with one or two flowers at its apex; peduncle glabrous, 
the further divisions increasingly ' puberulent ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 
acute, decreasing in length from 8 mm at the base of the peduncle to 
1 mm at the base of the pedicels; each flower subtended at the base by 
