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somewhat longitudinally 4-siilcate, 4-celled, each cell with from 5 to 7 

 or more pyrenes. 



Samar, near C'atbalogan, For. Bur. 12856 Rosenbluth, February 7, 1909, 

 Iiillsides along streams at an altitude of about 200 m, locally known as canilan. 



A species well characterized by its ample leaves, its secund spicate flowers and 

 its pubescent younger parts, inflorescence, and leaves. In its foliage it is some- 

 what suggestive of Timonins stlpulosits Val., but is very distinct from that 

 species. 



UROPHYLLUM Wall. 



Urophyllum eiliptifolium sp. nov. 



Arbiiscula erecta cireiter 3 m alta, partibus junioribus plus minus 

 furfuraceis exceptis glabra ; foliis ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, cbriaceis, 

 nitidis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, apice rotundatis vel breviter late 

 acuminatis, nervis utrinque cireiter 12, subtus prominentibus ; umbollis 

 axillaribus, solitariis, breviter pedunculatis ; fructibus paucis, carnosis, 

 ovoideis, cireiter 7 mm longis. 



An erect shrub about 3 m high. Branches brownish or grayish, terete, 

 or the younger ones somewhat compressed, the tips of the branches, leaf- 

 axils, stipules, and petioles of the younger leaves with few to many, thin, 

 small, ultimately deciduous, appressed, pale scales. Leaves elliptic to 

 oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, shining, rather pale Avhen dry, 8 to 12 cm long, 

 3.5 to 6 cm wide, the base acute or somewhat acuminate, the apex rounded 

 or shortly and broadly acuminate; primary nerves about 12, prominent 

 beneath, spreading, curved, anastomosing, the alternating secondary ones 

 also prominent, the reticulations distinct; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long; 

 stipules oblong, rounded, 1.5 cm long, furfuraceous, deciduous. Flowers 

 unknown. Fruit in solitary, axillary umbels, the peduncles about 8 mm 

 long, with few small bracts at the apex, each peduncle bearing from 

 three to five ovoid fruits about 7 nmi long, 5 mm in diameter, glabrous, 

 their pedicels about as long as the peduncles. Seeds very numerous, 

 pale-brown, 0.5 mm long, densely and finely foveolate. 



Palawan, Mount Pulgar, For. Bur. 3871 Curran, February, 1906, on forested 

 slopes, altitude 700 to 1,300 m. 



Possibly as closely allied to the Bornean Urophyllum siibaneurum Stapf as 

 to any other species, but quite distinct from that. 



Urophyllum negrosense sp. nov. 



Arbuscula erecta, ramulis foliis sul)tus ad nervos, stipulis bracteisque 

 plus minus ciliato-hirsutis; foliis late oblongo-lanceolatis, submembrana- 

 ceis, usque ad 18 cm longis, apice sensim subcaudato-acuminatis, basi 

 acutis, nervis utrinque cireiter IH; stipulis oblongis, menibranaceis, usque 

 ad 2.5 cm longis; floribus axillaribus, sessilibus, fasciculatis. 



An erect shrub (fide Everett). Branches terete, brownish, glabrous or 

 nearly so. Leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate, submembranaceous, 15 to 



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