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2 to 5 em. apart, oblong to elliptie oblong, 4 to 6 em. wide, 
1.5 to 2 dm. long including the glabrous 3 to 5 em. long 
petiole, apex acute, base also acute or cuneate, subcoriaceous, 
shining dark green above, lighter beneath, wholly glabrous; 
primary nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascendingly curved, not conspicuous, 
the midvein very prominent especially beneath; stipule leathery, 
about 1 mm. wide, fimbriate along the margin, deciduous. 
Flowers usually solitary from the axils of the leaves or the 
leaf scars; peduncle slender, glabrous, 12 mm. long, gradually 
enlarging toward the smooth ovary, arising from a very short 
corky tubercle; calyx with a 3 mm. deep entire cupular 
rim; corolla 1.5 em. long, slightly united at the base; segments 
5, valvate, fleshy, oblong lanceolate, acute, about 4 mm. 
wide, glabrous without, the inner surface covered with a 
matrix of woolly hairs except near the base; the 5 stamens 
included, alternating with the petals and inserted near the 
base of the united corolla; anthers 3 mm. long, broadest 
across the auriculately bilobed base; filaments half as long, 
glabrous, membranously margined; style thick, 5 mm. long, 
finely pubescent; stigmas 5, subterete, 5 mm. long and 1 
mm. in diameter; ovary 5-celled, numerously ovuled, arrang- 
ed along parietal placentae; berry glabrous, obovoid, 8 mm. 
long, 6 mm. in diameter. 
Type specimen 7946, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Quite common in 
well shaded places at 1000 meters of the forest region. 
Urophylium lucbanense n. sp. Erect shrub, 3 to 5 m. 
high; branches lax, covered with a smooth yellowish white 
bark, the younger twigs olivaceous pubescent. Leaves membran- 
ous, in opposite pairs, 2 to 3 cm. apart, acute at apex, 
obtuse or rounded at base, oblong to elliptic lanceolate, 2 
to 4 em. wide, the larger ones 10 cm. long including the 
1 em. long yellowish pubescent petioles, pubescent beneath 
especially along the nerves, glabrous above except the midvein; 
lateral veins 7 to 11 pairs, prominent beneath, strongly arched 
toward the apex. Flowers 1 to 3 subsessily clustered in the 
leaf axils or in the axils of the scars, subtended by 3 to 5 
small acute bracts densely covered with short pale hairs; 
rim of the mature calyx 1 mm. deep and truncate, pubescent and 
shallowly 4-toothed in the young state; corolla segments 4, 
