10 
arms; drupe subsessile or upon 3 mm. long pedicels, subglobose 
but with the lateral sides a trifle broader, 10 mm. long, 8 
mm. across the widest portion, glabrous, reddish, 2-celled, 
l-seeded in each; pyrene circular, 6 mm. in diameter, 
4.5 mm. thick, plane on the ventral side, convex on the 
dorsal, smooth and with rounded edges, centrally attached. 
Type specimen 7044, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, January, 
1906. A rare species found in a ravine three miles west of Palo, 
near the rapids of Bofigon River. 
Tricalysia purpureum n. sp. A lax and slender shrub, 
3 m. high; branches also slender, glabrous. Leaves when 
mature somewhat purplish along the 8 to 10 pairs of nerves 
and on the reticulations, glabrous on both sides, subcori- 
aceous, rounded or obtuse at base, long acuminate, lanceolate, 
the larger ones 4 cm. wide and 12 em. long including the 
4 em. long petiole; stipule glabrous, sharply acuminate, 5mm. 
in length, chartaceous. Flowers few or many in bracteate 
cymes, upon ascending axillary peduncles which are glabrous 
and 3.5 cm. long; bracts subtending the branchlets and flowers 
persistent, short but sharply pointed; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. 
long, at the base subtended by a 2 to 3-segmented calyculus; 
calyx glabrous, turbinate, 2.5 mm. long, obscurely 5-toothed; 
corolla a trifle longer than 2 mm., wholly glabrous, united 
at the base; the 5 leathery segments not twisted, imbricate, 
spoon shaped, obtuse at apex; stamens 5, sessily inserted 
upon the corolla near the base; anthers 1 mm. long, obtuse 
apex, base truncate or sagittate; style very short, bearing 2 
rather broadly flattened stigmatic arms; capsule purple 
red when mature, 2-celled, glabrous, subglobose, about 8 mm. 
in diameter, without calyx segments, its pericarp very thin; 
seeds usually 4 in each cell, 8 mm. long, angularly flattened, 
oblong, curved, slightly twisted, overlapping, brownish red, 
the surface ae covered with strands. 
Type specimen > A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Quite rare in the 
lower foothills. An undershrub of the woods or forests. 
Urophyllum banahaense n. sp. A small tree like shrub, 
5 to 8 m. high; branches few and divaricate; younger bark 
thin, glabrous, yellowish gray; wood white, soft. Leaves opposite T 
