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are nearly wide enough to cover these characters. The leaves of G. lancifolium 
are nearly chartaceous, or sometimes rather thinner or somewhat thicker than 
would be indicated by that term, but they can not be described as coriaceous, as 
have been those of G. zeylanicum , 16 
OSTODES Blume. 
Ostodes ixoroides sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbuscula : inflorescentiis terminalibus vel lateralibus, 
pedunculis teneris, angulatis, longiusculis ; floribus paucis, breviter pedi- 
cellatis, dioicis, pentameris : f oliis breviter petiolatis, chartaceis, lanceola- 
tis, margine minute dentatis, basi cordatis, apice acuminatis. 
Inflorescences terminal or axillary, 4 to 20 cm long, slender, angled, 
their branches few and short, the dioecious flowers few and forming con- 
densed panicles at the apices of the branches of the inflorescence, with 
short more or less ciliate bracts : staminate flowers on very short pedicels ; 
calyx about 3 mm long, out about two-thirds of the distance to the base 
into 5, imbricate, ovate lobes, rounded at their apices ; petals 5, free, 
broadly oblaneeolate, 6 mm long, rounded at the apex; disk-glands 5, 
free, about 0.4 mm long; filaments united to form a column, the outer 
5 evident from its base, becoming free at a hight of 1 mm for an additional 
0.5 mm, a second whorl at the apex of the column, free for about the 
same distance as the lower, total length of column to apices of anthers 
about 3 mm ; anthers erect or nearly so, dorsifixed just above .their bases, 
introrse, the cells separate, nearly parallel, the outer halves the longer, 
about 1 mm long, the connective produced beyond the cells; no rudi- 
mentary ovary present ; pistillate flowers with a similar calyx, 4 to 6 mm 
long; petals oval, broadly acuminate at the apex, 7 mm long; disk annular, 
short, its margin more or less sinuate, ovary subglobose, 2 mm in diameter, 
glabrous, deeply 6-grooved, 3-celled ; styles 3, united at the extreme base, 
but almost at once forked into 2 arms, in all about 2 mm long, usually 
nearly horizontal : capsule depressed-globose, 1 cm in diameter, deeply 
3-grooved, 3-celled, each cell containing one seed about 6 mm long. 
A shrub or small tree, the vegetative parts entirely glabrous, the 
branches with brownish or grayish striate bark: leaves resembling those 
of Ixora chinensis Lam. ; petioles about 3 mm long ; lamina chartaceous, 
lanceolate, 10 to 15 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, the base cordate, the 
margins minutely dentate, the apices acuminate; pairs of veins 15 to 20, 
forming a definite submarginal vein and a fainter outer one. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bangui, For. Bur. 13^26 Elemme (type, 
pistillate flowers and capsules) ; Mount Dagat, Bur. Sci. 77 -f 7 Ramos (staminate 
flowers ) . The arrangement of the stamens suggests Trigonostemon rather than 
Ostodes, but the species falls within the limits of the latter. 
FI. Br. Ind. 5 (1887) 311. 
