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(G673 Elmer) November. In thickets below 100 m., exceedingly variable and 

 perhaps not distinct from the widely distributed Musscenda frondosa Linn. 



2. M. anisophylla Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 178. 



(2508 Merrill) June; (.3020 Meyer) May. In forests 150 to 300 m. Endemic. 



10. UROPHYLLUM Wall. 



1. Urophyllum bataanense Elmer in herb. 



A shrub 1 to 3 m. high. Branches light brown or grayish, glabrous, terete or 

 obscurely angled. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, ovate lanceolate to elliptical 

 lanceolate, short, sharp acuminate, the base acute, glabrous except for few 

 scattered ciliate hairs on both surfaces, shining. !) to 16 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. 

 wide; nerves 10 to 13 on each side of the midrib; prominent beneath, the reticula- 

 tions distinct; petioles 2 to 3.5 cm. long; stipules ovate, acute or acuminate, mem- 

 branous, ciliate above, about 1.5 cm. long, caducous, the stipular scar ciliate. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, or two or three in a short raceme, subtended by short 

 ciliate bracts, the pedicels about 1 cm. long, glabrous. Calyx glabrous, cam- 

 panulate, thick, 5 mm. long, the teeth broad, short, obscure. Corolla glabrous 

 outside, 8 mm. long, the lobes about 4 mm. long, the tube 3 to 4 mm. in diameter 

 below, constricted above at tlie pilose throat, tlie 5 segments reflexed. Fila- 

 ments 5, alternating with the corolla segments. Stigma 3-lobed. Fruit glabrous, 

 5-celled with many seeds in each cell, subglobose or somewhat compressed, about 

 5 mm. in diameter, the seeds subglobose, pitted, about 0.5 mm. in diameter. 



(1335, 2080 Borden) July, November, 1904; (2213 Meyer) December, 1904; 

 (461 Whitford) July, 1904; (3186, 3874 Merrill) October, 1903, August, 1904; 

 (6810 Elmer) November, 1904. On exposed ridges in the mossy forest above 

 900 m. 



2. Urophyllum acuminatum INlerrill, sp. nov. 



A shrub 3 to 5 m. high. Branches slender, light gray, pubescent with ap- 

 pressed hairs. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, long, slender 

 aciuninate, the base acute, submembranous, the nerves and midrib beneath, and 

 frequently also above, appressed pubescent, becoming more or less glabrous, 

 usually pale when dry and somewhat shining, 5 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide; 

 nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, prominent beneath ; 

 petioles 1 cm. long or less, slender, pubescent. Flowers solitary or in very short 

 3 or 4 flowered axillary cj'mes, white, subsessile. or the pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long, 

 subtended by 2 or 3 lanceolate pubescent bracts about 2 mm. long. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, obscurely toothed, very slightly pubescent, 3 mm. long. Corolla including 

 the lobes 5 mm. long, glabrous outside, the tube 2 mm. long, densely villous at the 

 throat inside, the lobes usually 6, spreading or reflexed, oblong ovate, acute, 3 mm. 

 long. Anthers 1 mm. long. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, fleshy, about 5 mm. 

 in diameter, purplish when mature, the numerous seeds reddish, subglobose, 

 minutely pitted, 0.5 mm. in diameter. 



(236 Whitford) May, 1904; (6047 Leiberg) July, 1904; (1334 Borden) July, 

 1904; (3188 Merrill) October, 1903; (2825 Meyer) March, 1905; (6814 Elmer) 

 November, 1904. In the mossy forest on exposed ridges above 900 m. Uro- 

 phyllum streptopodiiDu Elmer in herb., non Wall. 



11. STYLOCORYNA ( av., non W. et A. 



1. S. macrophylia Bartl. in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 377. (?) 



(2573, 3030 Borden) February, May: (1245 Whitford) May. In forests 150 

 to 350 m. Endemic. 

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