January 11, 1911] New AND Norewortuy RUBIACEAE 999 
Urophyllum platyphyllum Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, 4 m. high, terete, widely 
branched from below the middle; branchlets green, usually 
appressed hairy and slenderly rebranched; wood greenish 
white, very soft, with an extra large pith, odorless and 
tasteless. Leaves membranous, descending, much paler green 
beneath, shallowly concave above, tips abruptly recurved and 
short acute, base obtuse or subtruncate, drying green, glabrous 
except the nerves, margins entire, the larger blades 2.5 dm. 
long, 12 cm. wide across the middle or a trifle above it, 
broadly oblong or narrowly elliptic, usually widest just above 
the midle; petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, cinereous, green: nerves 
14 to 16 on each side of the prominently raised midvein, 
green even in the dry state, ascending, strict, parallel, tips 
ascendingly arched, finely strigose on both sides, reticulations 
and crossbars fine yet evident; stipules, also greenish, elongated 
lanceolate, 1.5 cm. long, tips brownish. Infrutescence in dense 
sessile clusters arising a few mm. above the leaf axils; 
pedicels slender, pale green, 1 to 2 cm. long, straight, pubescent, 
all arising from a short minutely bracteate common stalk; 
young fruit globose, 5 mm. thick, the younger ones pubescent, 
greenish, crowned by the 4 short calyx teeth, 5-celled; seeds 
many, imbedded in a pulpy mass, light straw color, sub- 
globose, less than 0.5 mm. across. 
Type specimen 12363, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
This shrub was only once seen in a moist gravelly soil 
overgrown with herbaceous and suffrutescent thickets in a 
small wooded gully at 1750 feet, on the trail toward Espafia. 
Its large bright green leaves make a pretty appearance! 
This, I believe, can be referred under the U. glabrum 
Wall. group. 
Urophyllum reticulatum Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem 5 to 8 cm. thick, terete, rather 
crooked, 3 m. high or higher; branches crookedly rebranched 
toward the top or from near the middle; wood soft or hard 
and rigid, dingy white, odorless, slightly bitter; bark thick, 
