1000 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
yellowish gray, longitudinally checked, the rigid branchlets 
smooth and green. Leaves mainly horizontal, flat, apex 
recurved, deep shining green above, beneath much paler, 
rigidly chartaceous, glabrous, acute to cuneate at base, ter- 
minated by a short abruptly acute point, entire margins 
somewhat thickened, drying green, oblong, the normal ones 
12 em. long, by 5 cm. wide across the middle; veins conspi- 
cuous beneath, the midvein very prominent and yellowish 
brown, the main lateral ones 7 to 9 on each side, ascend- 
ingly curved and reticulately united, reticulations numerous 
and conspicuous; petiole glabrous, obscurely angular, 2 to 4 
cm. long; stipules thick or nearly plated, glabrous, ovately 
triangular, 5 mm. long, very dark green. Peduncles as- 
cending, usually solitary from the lowermost leaf axils, 
glabrous, 7.5 mm. long or less, bearing 3 flowers; pedicels 
less than 5 mm. long, subtended by short ovate bracts; 
calyx smooth, subglobose, 5 mm. across, green, truncate; 
corolla thick and fleshy, creamy white, with a 2 mm. long 
tube; segments 6, curvingly reflexed, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide, tapering to an acuminate point; throat densly villous, 
1 mm. long; anthers as long, basifixed, ellipsoid, with an 
apiculate apex; style very short, tumid, glabrous; stigma 
short clavate, 3-lobed; young fruits shining deep red, several- 
celled, with namerous minute ovules. 
Type specimen 12506, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. : 
This shrub-like tree was discovered in stony moist soil 
of a forested ridge at 4000 feet. The inflorescence, young 
portions of the twigs and young leaves turn to a dark red 
color while drying. 
It also falls in with U. glabrum Wall., but is very dis- 
tinct from any of the forms under that widely known species. 
WILLIAMSIA Merr. 
Williamsia sablanensis (Elm.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. I; 39, 1906. Urophyllum sablanense Elm. Leaf. Philip. 
Bot. I; 39, 1906. 
