PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 303 
villous; style glabrous, 3 mm long; stigma broad, somewhat 
cleft. Very young fruit obovoid, densely pale-puberulent and 
with longer pale hairs intermixed. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1S19 (type) : Province of Bataan, 
Lamao River, For. Bur. 30^8 Borden, May, 1905, For. Bur. 1489 Ahem' 8 
collector, July, 1904, Whitford 1$S8, May, 1905: Province of Pampanga, 
Turo, For, Bur. 19290 Curran, March, 1910; Mount Arayat, For. Bur. 9616 
Zsckokke, October, 1907: Province of Tayabas, San Narciso, For. Bur. 
U970 Darling, October, 1909. 
This form has been referred by recent authors, following Rolfe, to the 
Asiatic Grewia tiliafoUa Vahl. It does not appear to me to be referable to 
Vahl's species, and is accordingly here described as new. Hooker f. states 
that Grewia tiliaefolia Vahl is best distinguished by its auricled, falcate 
stipules, a character that does not at all apply to the specimens cited above. 
GREWIA RJZALENSIS sp. nov. § Eugrewia. 
Species G. rolfei simillima et valde affinis, differt foliis subtus 
densissime ubique griseo-stellato-puberulis. 
A small tree. Branches terete, slender, black when dry, 
glabrous, slightly lenticellate, the branchlets densely and uni- 
formly stellate-puberulent with cinereous or sometfmes ferrugi- 
nous hairs. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous, 5 to 10 
cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, base rounded, slightly inequilateral, apex 
acuminate, margins denticulate except in the basal portions 
which are entire, the upper surface dark-colored when dry, 
slightly stellate-puberulent, especially on the nerves, the lower 
surface densely and uniformly covered with gAyish, stellate, 
very short hairs; petioles stellate-puberulent, 1 cm long or less; 
stipules lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, deciduous, about 5 
mm long. Umbels numerous, axillary, solitary or fascicled, 
similar to those of G. rolfei. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, or 
acute, pubescent, 7 mm long, 2 mm wide. Petals membrana- 
ceous, glabrous, oblong, 2.5 to 3 mm long, 1 mm wide, obtuse or 
retuse. Ovary densely villous ; style glabrous, 3 mm long. Very 
young fruits densely cinereous-pubescent. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Mateo, For. Bur. 1132 Ahem's colUctor, 
May, 1904 (type) ; Antipolo, For. Bur. 3139 Ahem's collector, June, 1905, 
Phil. PL 265 Ramos, June, 1910; Bosoboso, Merrill 2679, June, 1903, small 
leaved form. 
A species manifestly very closely allied to Grewia rolfei Merr., and per- 
haps not specifically distinct, although differing in its uniform, dense, grayish 
indumentum on the lower surfaces of the leaves, while G. rolfei is densely 
puberulent on the nerves only, and with scattered hairs on the surface other- 
wise, that do not conceal the epidermis of the leaf. 
