x, c, i Merrill: New or Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XI 69 
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 represented by the following allied 
species : 
URCEOLA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Species praecedente similis et affinis, differt foliis chartaceis, 
haud 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, 545, 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 moVe 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 (Elmer) 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 12837, March, 1911, type number. 
