Sbptkmbeb 12, 1913] Robiaceae feom Modnt Urdaneta 1903 



glabrous; stipule not seen. Infrutescence pendant, axillary; 

 peduncle solitary, 3 to 5 cm. long, articulated and provided 

 with a caducous bract a trifle above the middle; that por- 

 tion below the articulation glabrous, curved, flattened, grad- 

 ually tapering from the base, quadranagular and tawny 

 pubescent; receptacle 4 mm. in diameter, fulvus hairy; flowers 

 or fruits divaricately spreading, very numerous in a head, 

 slenderly stipitate; calyx neck constricted, doubly fusiform, 

 bearing at the apex 5 rather broadly rounded persistent seg- 

 ments, appressed yellowish brown pubescent; ovary 1 cm. 

 long, similar in shape, subterete or comprest-ed, creased 

 along the two sides, 2-celled; stipes 1 to 2 cm. long, very 

 slender, cinereously strigose; nearly mature capsule 1.5 cm. 

 long and 3 mm. thick. 



Type specimen number 14178, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



This tall forest tree climbing liana was collected on the 

 ground after a heavy storm in a humid gluch between Duros 

 and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet altitude. "Cawilan" in 

 Manobo. 



Distantly related to U. canescens Korth. 



Uncarfa philippineasis Elm. 



Field-note: — A scandent and widely sprawling shrub; stem 

 terete, 1.5 inches thick, bendable; wood soft, brownish white, 

 with a large pith; old bark smooth and yellowish gray; 

 branches freely rebranched, green, angular or square; twigs 

 drooping, subtended by yellowish bracts; leaves descending, 

 submembranous, lucid above, subtended by similar bracts 

 and with a yellowish green recurved spine from the leaf 

 axils; heads divaricate, more descending than the leaves; 

 stalks, bracts and calyx greenish, the exposed calyx segments 

 and corolla nearly melleus; flower soft in texture. 



Represented by number 13507, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 1912. 



Sprawling over jungled woods along a fertile stream bank 

 at 250 feet altitude on the trail to Bayabas. "Sabilan" is 

 the Manobo name. 



