1900 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 94 



the entire margins finely ciliate and slightly involute, glab- 

 rous except the nerves beneath, the upper surface striately 

 checked, diverse in size, opposite, rather crowded toward the 

 ends of the twigs, the larger blades 13 cm. long by 6 cm. 

 wide above the middle but usually smaller; midrib bold 

 and strigose beneath, shallowly sunken along the upper side, 

 atropurpureus toward the base; lateral nerves 6 to 10 on 

 each side, divaricate, tips ascendingly curved and usually 

 forked, similar in vestiture and color; the cross reticulations 

 very faint even beneath; petiole from 1 to 3 cm. long, glab- 

 rous, flattened along the upper side, nearly black when dry, 

 also atropurpureus tinged; bud bract 1.5 cm. long or less, 5 

 to 8 mm. wide, oblong, yellowish green and rounded, apex 

 purplish, only the outside minutely and grayish puberulent. 

 Young infrutescence axillary, similarly spreading; peduncle 

 solitary, strict, strigosely puberulent, 3 cm. long, compressed, 

 greenish, ternately short branched at the distal end; flowers 

 few to several, the terminal one sessile, the others scattered 

 along the sides of the very short and unequal distichous 

 branchlets; young fruits subterete, green, ovoidly elongated, 

 bearing the truncate calyx rim, when mature dull red, sub- 

 globose, 7.5 mm. across, glabrous, slightly rugose especially 

 in the dry state; stone-like pyrenes about 12, arranged par- 

 allel, the outer ones somewhat smaller, normal ones nearly 

 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. thick, somewhat compressed and ob- 

 scurely curved along the ventral side, straw brown, equally 

 tapering at both ends. 



Type specimen number 14197, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 

 (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912, 



Discovered in moist moss covered soil of cold windy 

 forests at 5500 feet altitude along the general route from 

 lake Donao to the summit of the mountain after which it 

 is named. Its native Manobo name is "Mayponog." 



Appearing like T. ohovatus Elm. and from memory it 

 was so determined. 



UROPHYLLUM Wall. 

 Urophyllum urdanetense Elm. 



Erect or suberect shrub; stem 5 to 8 cm. thick, terete, 



