VIII, c, 1 Merrill: Studies on Philippine Rubiaceae, I 61 
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Bur. ScL 1970 Foxworthy, January, 1907: Province of Bulacan, Norza- 
garay, Yoder 21^6, December, 1906: Province of Rizal, Montalban, Loher 
s. n.; Bosoboso, Merrill 1830, April, 1903, For, Bur. 1S90 Ahern's collector, 
October, 1904, Bur. Sci. 2127 Ramos, February, 1907: Province of Bataan, 
Dinalupijan, Merrill 1586, January, 1903: Province of Laguna, Calauan, 
PhiL PL U58 McGregor, December, 1910; Los Banos, Hallier s. n., December, 
1903. 
Borneo, fide Haviland. 
The earliest specific name is here taken up in accordance with the 
Vienna Code. The original description of the species is very short, and 
is inadequate as a means of determining the species. DeCandolle" simply 
cites the name with the comment 'Videtur Uncariae sp." The type of 
Sabicea perrottetii A. Rich, is preserved in the Herbarium of the Paris 
Museum of Natural History, and probably was examined by Haviland, 
for he correctly places the species, although using a later specific name. 
Doctor C. B. Robinson who recently kindly looked up the type at my 
request, states that Sabicea perrottetii is the same as Uncaria hookeri 
Vid., and that a specimen collected in Luzon by Barthe, also preserved 
in the Paris Herbarium, is so named in Haviland's handwriting. 
UROPHYLLUM Wallich 
UROPHYLLUM GRAN DISTIPULUM sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber vel subglaber, foliis subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 
cm longis, oblongis, acuminatis, nervis prominentibus, utrinque 
circiter 15; stipulis magnis, subchartaceis, 3 ad 4 cm longis, 
oblongis vel oblongoovatis ; floribus axillaribus, ut videtur sim- 
pliciter umbellatis vel fasciculatis, fructibus ovoideis, camosis, 
circiter 2 cm diametro. 
A glabrous shrub about 8 m in height fide Ramos. Branches 
terete, the younger ones compressed, glabrous. I^eaves oblong, 
subcoriaceous, 12 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, of the same 
color and uniformly shining on both surfaces when dry, the 
base acute or somewhat decurrent, the apex rather slenderly long 
acuminate, nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations slender, distinct; 
petioles 2.5 to 4.5 cm long; stipules subpersistent, subchartaceous 
or membranaceous, oblong-ovate, subacute, 3 to 4 cm long. 
Flowers unknown, axillary, in few-flowered simple umbels or 
fascicles. Fruits fleshy, ovoid or ovoid-globose, about 2 cm in 
diameter, 5-celled, crowned by the persistent calyx-rim, one m 
each axil with pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long, or two on a common 
peduncle, the peduncle and pedicels each less than 1 cm long. 
Leyte, mountains back of Dagami, Bur. Sal 15S72 Ramos, August 13, 
1912, in forests. ,. 
A species apparently belonging in the same group with Urophyllum 
"^Prodr. 4 (1830) 440. 
