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UROPHYULLM WALL. 
* Fruit subsessile, 1 em. in diameter. 
1. U. sablanense n. sp. Shrub, 4. m. high, with thin 
smooth bark; branches few, slender. Leaves distiehous, usually 
about 3 or 4 pairs towards the ends of the twigs and 
5 em. apart, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both sides, lanceo- 
late or oblanceolate, apex slenderly acuminate, base acute, 5 
em. wide aeross the middle, 20 em. long including the 1.5 em, 
long somewhat thickened petiole, the 10 to 13 pairs of nerves 
very prominent on the lower surface; stipule subglabrous, 15 cm. 
long, linear or lanceolate, caducous. Flowers solitary or in 
pairs, axillary, sessile, subtended by 2 cupular bracts; the basal 
one thick truncate, 2 mm. long and enclosing the miner one 
which is very similar except in length; calyx 1 cm. long, 5 
mm. across the middle, chartaceous, its rim entire, 2 mm. long, 
hairy on the inner surface; corolla of about 7 segments 11 
mm. long, united at the base, cinereous on the outer surf- 
ace, straight and adnate, thick, acuminate, with tufts of hair 
on the inner basal surface; stamens 7, inserted upon the 
corolla near the base, alternate, sessile; filaments glabrous, 
adnate to the corolla, 1.46 mm. long; anther dorsally at- 
tached, 1 mm. long; style short, bearing an ovoid stigma 
which finally becomes 5 to 7 laciniately lobed; fruit subglobose, 
subsessile in the lower leaves or in the leaf axils, subtended 
by a persistent involucre of 4 broadly rounded lobes, crowned 
by the subentire calyx tube, 5 to 7-celled, its partitions com- 
paratively thin; seeds very numerous in each cell and im- 
bedded in a fleshy pulp, brown, smooth, less than 0.5 mm. 
in diameter, almost globose, only obscurely pitted. 
Type specimen 61 31, A. D. E. Elmer, Sablan, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, April, 1904. 
* * Fruit pedicellate, smaller. 
+ Infrutescence umbellate, much edid the petiole. 
2. U. glabrum Jack. 
+ + Infrutescence solitary or only in few flowered umbels, not 
exceeding the petioles. 
++ Leaves 7 to 12 em. long, slenderly acuminate, broadly lanceo- 
late; fruit pedicel 4 mm. long or less. 
