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olivaceis, glabris, nitidis, subtus pallidis et subdense cinereo- 
pubescentibus, indumento nitido, apice acutis ad obscure ob- 
tuseque acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, 
subtus distinctis, junioribus plerumque in axillis glandulosis 
barbatisque; cymis 3 ad 4 cm longis, usque ad 4 em diametro, 
cinereo-pubescentibus; floribus numerosis, subconfertis, corollae 
tubo 4 mm longo, glabro, fauce villoso, lobis 5, oblongo-ellipticis, 
5 mm longis, calycis cinereo-pubescentibus. 
A small tree about 4 m high, the branches glabrous, red- 
dish brown to grayish, terete, the branches minutely pubescent. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong, 7 to 10 em long, 2 to 3.5 cm 
wide, subequally narrowed to the acute or very slightly acu- 
minate apex and to the acute base, the upper surface glabrous, 
olivaceous, shining, the lower surface pale and uniformly cinere- 
ous-pubescent with short, appressed, shining hairs, the younger 
leaves usually conspicuously glandular and barbate in the axils 
of the veins; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 
rather slender, distinct, the reticulations lax, obscure; petioles 
8 to 10 mm long, pubescent or ultimately glabrous; stipules 
more or less pubescent, sheathing, about 8 mm long. Inflores- 
cences terminal, shortly peduncled, 3 to 4 cm long and 2.5 to 4 
cm wide, cinereous-pubescent. Flowers white, numerous, fra- 
grant, crowded, 5-merous, their pedicels about 2 mm long, the 
bracts and bracteoles minute, ovate, acuminate, 0.5 mm long. 
Calyx cinereous-pubescent, cup-shaped, about 2 mm long, the 
lobes orbicular-ovate, rounded, 0.5 mm long, their margins 
Somewhat ciliate. Corolla tube 4 mm long, glabrous outside, 
the throat villous inside, the lobes oblong-elliptic, rounded, 5 
mm long, spreading or reflexed. Stamens exserted, the anthers 
linear-oblong, 4 mm long. Style and stigma about 12 mm long, 
narrowly club-shaped. Ovules few. 
LUZON, Pangasinan Province, Aguilar, For. Bur. 28419 
Zamuco, April 21, 1921. Near streams at low altitudes. 
This species has much the facies of Tarenna asiatica O. 
Kuntze, from which, however, it differs in numerous details and 
more especially in the indumentum on the lower surface of the 
leaves. It does not appear to be closely allied to any previously 
described Philippine form. 
COWIEA Wernham 
_COWIEA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, 1 ad 3 m altus, inflorescentiis leviter ferru- 
gineo-hirsutis exceptis glaber; foliis chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, 
