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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1913 
bataanense Elm., but well characterized by its very large, subpersistent 
stipules. The fruits are also larger than in any other known Philippine 
form. 
UROPHYLLUM LEYTENSE sp. nov. 
Species praecedenti similis et affinis, differt foliis oblongo- 
obovatis, breviter obtuse acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, 
stipulis minoribus circiter 2 cm longis, strigoso-hirsutis, apice 
2-lobatis. 
A shrub less than 1 m high, fide Ramos, nearly glabrous except 
the distincly strigose-hirsute stipules and buds. Branches 
stout, the younger ones compressed, straw-colored when dry. 
Leaves oblong-obovate, 13 to 18 cm long, 5.5 to 8 cm wide, 
chartaceous or subcoriaceous, of the same color, rather pale, and 
uniformly shining on both surfaces when dry, the apex shortly 
and rather abruptly blunt-acuminate, the base acute, sometimes 
a little decurrent; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations 
rather lax, prominent on both surfaces ; petioles 3 to 4 cm long ; 
stipules broadly ovate, about 2 cm long, chartaceous, distinctly 
appressed strigose-hirsute with short grayish hairs, subpersis- 
tent, shortly 2-cleft at the apex, the lobes acute, 2 to 3 mm long. 
Flowers 5-merous, axillary, subsolitary or fascicled, the pedicels 
(in bud) about 5 mm long, in young fruit 2.5 cm long. Calyx 
urceolate, the limb obscurely 5-toothed, slightly pubescent. 
Ovary 5-celled. Fruit (young) depressed-globose or obovoid, 
slightly pubescent, fleshy, 5 to 8 mm in diameter. 
Leyte, mountains back of Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15289 Ramos, August 13, 
1912, in forests. 
Manifestly allied to Urophyllum grandistipulum, but with smaller 
stipules which are cleft at the apex, smaller fruits, and differently shaped, 
fewer-nerved leaves. 
Vol. VII, No. 6, including pages 363 to 434, was issued .January 15, 1913. 
