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rather prominently but widely and obtusely acuminate, base 

 rounded, equilateral or nearly so, not or but obscurely 3-nerved, 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side of 

 the midrib, prominent, curved, obscurely or scarcely anastomos- 

 ing, the reticulations slender, the basal pair scarcely different 

 from the next pair above and not extending to beyond one- 

 fourth or one-third the length of the leaf; petioles 8 to 14 mm 

 long, densely hirsute with simple hairs; stipules oblong, gla- 

 brous or slightly pubescent, obtuse, about 7 mm long. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, rather narrow, up to 9 cm in length, the 

 rachis and branches prominently and densely subferruginous- 

 hirsute with spreading simple hairs, the bracts subtending the 

 branches similar to the stipules but slightly smaller. Flowers 

 in groups of threes terminating the branchlets, each group sub- 

 tended by an involucre of irregular, ovate to oblong, deciduous, 

 densely puberulent, about 6 mm long bracts, these usually also 

 supplied with a few long, spreading simple hairs externally. 

 Flowers yellow, their tomentose pedicels about 2 mm long. Se- 

 pals densely puberulent-tomentose, about 8 mm long, oblong- 

 spatulate, obtuse, margins strongly inflexed throughout. Petals 

 none. Torus short, glabrous below, the margins villous. Sta- 

 mens about 45, their filaments 4 to 5 mm long. Ovary narrowly- 

 ovoid, about 1.3 mm long, puberulent; style slender, glabrous, 

 about 4 mm long. 



Samar, Catubig River, at Tagabiran and Mount Capatoan, Bur. Sci. 2US6 

 (type), 2H89 Ramos, February, 1916, in forests along small streams and 

 on damp slopes at low altitudes. A narrow-leaved form is represented by 

 Sablaya 17, from the same region. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Grewia stylocarpa Warb., 

 from which it is at once distinguished by its more numerously nerved 

 leaves, which are not or but very obscurely 3-nerved at the base, and its 

 hirsute inflorescences. Superficially it very closely resembles a series of 

 specimens from the Malay Peninsula representing Grewia latifolia Mast., 

 but the indumentum of the inflorescence in that species is short and stellate, 

 not of simple hairs, while the floral structure is entirely different. 



STERCULIACEAE 



STERCULIA Linnaeus 

 STERCULJA RAMOSII sp. nov. 



Arbor alta, ramulis incrassatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm diametro; foliis 

 ovatis, integris, subcoriaceis, brevissime acuminatis, basi sub- 

 truncato-rotundatis vix cordatis, 7- vel 9-nerviis, usque ad 25 cm 

 longis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, minutissime 

 stellato-puberulis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 10; pani- 



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