NRW PHILIPPIXE PLANTS. 1G5 
beneath, curved-asuending, the reticulations subparallcl, distinct- peti- 
oles pubescent, 2 to 3 mm long; stipules deciduous. Flowers ax'illary 
solitary or two or tliroc in an axil, sessile or subsessile, white. Caly.x 
villous, 2 mm in diameter, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical, about 3 
mm long, somewhat pubescent, the lobes 5, rarely fi, spreading, villous, 
ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm long; anthers about 1 nmi long. Ovary 5-celled' 
Fruit bright-blue, subglobose, 3 or 4 mm in diameter, slightly hirsute. 
Bracts none or minute. 
Mi.N-uANAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 561, 8J,6, May and 
November, 1906, and without niimbpr, September, 1907. 
A species well eluuacterized by its olivaceous or dirty-yellowish pubescence, 
sessile flowers, and absence of bracts. 
WILLIAMSIA Merrill gen. nov. 
Flores liermapliroditi. Calycis tubus ovoideus vel globosus; limbus 
4- rarius 5-dentatus, persistens. Corolla coriaeea, tubo brcvi, fauce vil- 
losa; limbi lobi 5-7, valvati. Stamina 7, corollae fauce inscrta, fdamciitis 
brevibus; antherae dorso afHxae. Discus tumidus, annularis. Ovarium 
S-T-Ioeulare ; stylus brevis, apice 5-7-Iobatis. Bacca 5-7-locularis, poly- 
_ sperma. Semina uiinuta. Arbor parva, fere glaberrima. Folia opposita, 
petiolata, oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, penninervia. Stipulae elon-, 
gata^, intrapetiolarcs. Flores axillares, sessiles, solitarii vel f asciculati ; ' 
bracteis 2, superpositis, plus minus eupularibus, 4-dentatis, involucran- 
tibus. 
Willramsia sablanensfs (Elmer) ^U-iviU comb. nov. 
Urophf/Uum sahlanense KImer LcalL riiilip. JJot. 1 (1900) 39. 
LuzoKT, Province of Benguet, Sablan, Elmer 6131, April, 1904 (fvpo) ; Ba<niio 
Elmer SS-Jl, March, 1907; ^ym^ams 1028, October, 1004. Misux:^lo, District of 
Zambofinga, Copelaml 1642, February, 1005; Sax Biver, M'iUiams 2S36, February 
15, 1905: Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens ,531, Mnv, 1005, and without 
number, July, 1907. 
This new genus is manifestly allied to Urophyllum, but is at once distinguished 
from tliat genu.s by its sessile, axillary, solitary or fascicled ilowers, and the 
presence at the base of the calyx of two cupular. imbricate, 4-tootbed bracts, 
inclosing the base of the calyx, the lower one the smaller. It seems to be even 
more closely allied to Oonyanera Korth., but is readily distinguished from that 
genus by its more numerous ovary cells. Dedicated to Mr. R. S. Williams of 
the Kew York Botanical Garden, who made extensive botanical collections in tlie 
Philippines from October, 1903, to July, 1005. 
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