358 ROBINSON. 
Flowers spiked in termiual subcorymbose inflorescences 10 to 20 cm 
long, the rachises fleshy, densely hoary- and brownish-pnbescent ; bracts 
linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5 to 7.5 mm long: calyx-tube 8 to 9 
mm long, about 4 mm in diameter at the apex ; calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, 
5.5 to 6.5 mm long, acute at the apex, deciduous, one of the lobes 
sometimes leaf-like, white, 5 cm long, the blade oval, 5-ncrved, acutely 
acuminate at the base; corolla-tube 13 mm long, the lobes 5, valvate, 
about 1.5 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, very densely brown-tomentose 
within, the throat yellow-tomentose, the belt occupied by the anthers 
white-tomentose; stamens 5, the filaments free from above 4 to 5 mm 
from the base of the corolla-tube, about 2 mm long; anthers lanceolate, 
nearly 4 mm long; style inserted in a pit formed by the short, white, 
free portion of the ovar>^, entire for 2 mm, then 2-lobed for 1.5 mm; 
ovary 2-celIed, each cell containing very many small ovules ; fruit fleshy, 
ovoid-globose, about 1 cm in diameter. 
A slirub or small tree, 2 to 3.5 m high, the bark of the older branches 
gray, tlie younger branchlets greenish-gray, somewhat angled : leaves of 
u pair usually unequal, the petioles 2 to 8 cm long, the lamina chartace- 
ous, orbicular to ovate, 12 to 24 cm long, 9 to 12 em wide, acutely 
aeuminate at the base, at the apex subacute or forming a short acumen; 
primaiy lateral veins on each side of the costa usually 13; stipules inter- 
petiolar, ovate, long-acuminate, 8 to 18 mm long; upper surface of the 
lamina dark-green, under surface light-green, both, but especially the 
under, covered with soft Avhitish pubescence. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Abra, Manapnap, Bur. Sci. 725/f Ramos: Subprovince 
of Bontoc, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 119o: Subprovince of Benguet, nrar Baguio, 
Merrill 6681 (type), For Bur, 5078 Curran, Elmer 8976, Bur. Sci. d827 Ramos; 
Sablan, Elmer 019o, Bur. ScL 125SS F^nix, Williams 1558; Itogon, Williams 
1001: Province of Zambales, Balimbraya, Bur. Sci. 50U Ramos. Allied to M. 
anisophylla Vidal and M. villosa Wall., differing from both in the tliicker, more 
densely pubescent, and usually larger and more numerously veined leaves, from 
the latter also in habit and by longer and thicker petioles. 
