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The species is in all respects a typical Urceola as evidenced by its very 

 short flowers and valvate corolla lobes. It belongs in the group with 

 Urceola brachysepala Hook. f. of the Malay Peninsula. The follicles are 

 cylindric and brown when dry, not at all torulose, straight or slightly 

 curved, about 13 cm long, 3 to 4 mm in diameter. The genus, which is 

 new to the Philippines, is also i-epresented by the following allied 

 species : 



URCEOLA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Species praecedente similis et affinis, differt foliis chartaceis, 

 baud coriaceis, calycis lobis longioribus prope ad basin porrectis. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence, the 

 branches slender, terete, reddish-brown. Leaves chartaceous, 

 oblong-ovate, brown or brownish-olivaceous when dry, slightly 

 shining, 7 to 11 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, apex prominently 

 acuminate, base rounded to subacute; lateral nerves about 7 on 

 each side of the midrib, rather prominent, curved-anastomosing 

 near the margin, the reticulations distinct; petioles 1 to 1.8 cm 

 long, reddish-brown. Inflorescence corymbose, terminal and in 

 the upper axils, frequently forming an ample, somewhat leafy 

 inflorescence, 7 to 25 cm in width, the younger parts more or 

 less villous with pale or brownish hairs. Flowers very numerous, 

 crowded on the ultimate branchlets, the bracts subtending the 

 primary branches linear, 5 to 15 mm long. Calyx pubescent, 

 cleft nearly to the base, the lobes narrowly ovate, 1 to 1.3 mm 

 long, acute. Corolla about 3 mm long, somewhat pubescent 

 externally, the lobes 5, narrowly ovate, acute, about 1 mm long, 

 valvate. Anthers about 1.3 mm long, base sagittate. Disk 

 prominent, somewhat 5-costate. Ovary glabrous. 



Mindanao, District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1098, June, 

 1907 (type) : Province of Surigao, Piper 219, 512, 5U5, May, 1911. Leyte, 

 Jaro, Wenzel 689, May, 1914. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Urceola imberbis (Elm.) Merr., 

 to which most of the specimens have previously been referred, differing 

 in its thinner leaves and manifestly much more deeply cleft calyx. In 

 U. imberbis the leaves, when mature, are rather thickly coriaceous, and the 

 calyx lobes extend less than half way to the base. 



URCEOLA LAEVIS (Ehner) comb. nov. 



Carruthersia laevis Elmer Leafl. . Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1449 (leavis) . 



Like Carruthersia imberis Elm., this species has the characteristic 

 flowers of Urceola and must be transferred to that genus. It is readily 

 distinguished from the two other Philippine species by its oblong-obovate 

 bracts and bracteoles, fewer nerves, less prominently acuminate coriaceous 

 leaves, and especially by its calyx lobes extending quite to the base. 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Elmer 128S7, March, 1911, type number. 



