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230 MERRILL. 
Pod about 1.5 em long, hirsute, long-stalked; seeds 4. Placenta per- 
sistent, not separating from the capsule in dehiscence. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Balanga Mountains, Mor. Bur. 19258 Curran, Jan- 
uary, 1910. 
A species well characterized by its narrowly lanceolate, long: leaves and by its 
large flowers. 
RUBIACE. 
GREENIOPSIS Merr. 
Greeniopsis pubescens sp. nov. 
Arbor parva vel mediocris, omnibus partibus plus minus dense brunneo- 
pubescens; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vel oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 
40 cm longis, longe acuminatis, basi angustatis, nervis utrinque circiter 
20, stipulis 3 cm longis; capsulis 4 mm longis. 
A small or medium-sized tree pubescent throughout. Branches stout, 
the ultimate ones about 8 mm in diameter, pubescent with short brownish 
hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 20 to 40 cm 
long, 6 to 11 cm wide, subcoriaceous, shining when dry, both surfaces 
pubescent with rather short hairs, or the upper subglabrous, entire, the 
apex rather slenderly long-acuminate, narrowed to the base, the lamina 
decurrent practically to the base of the short petiole, so that the 
leaves are subsessile; nerves about 20 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent, curved, anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations distinct ; stipules 
oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, 3 cm long, 1 cm wide at the base, acu- 
minate, at first pubescent, becoming nearly glabrous, deciduous. Panicles 
terminal and in the upper axils, peduncled, nearly as long as the leaves, 
branched at or above the middle, the rachis, branches and branchlets 
densely brown-pubescent with short hairs, the branches flower-bearing 
only above the middle. Flowers white, pedicelled, the calyx pubescent, 
about 3 mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, becoming somewhat inflated, 
the teeth 5, short, truncate, imbricate, broader then long. Corolla rather 
densely pubescent outside, the throat villous within, the tube about 2 mm 
long, rather abruptly enlarged above, the lobes 5, rounded, imbricate, 
about 1.5 mm long, 2.56 mm wide. Anthers 1.4 mm long. Capsules 
subsecund on the ultimate branchlets, oblong or oblong-ovoid, densely 
pubescent, 4 mm long, the persistent calyx-teeth oblong, pubescent on 
both surfaces. 
Luzon, Province of Isabela, Bicobian Bay, Bur. Sci. 10659 MeGregor, August, 
1909: Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 7407 Ramos, March, 1909 (type). 
In general appearance very similar to the other two species of the genus, but 
well characterized by its rather uniformly distributed pubescence, which consists 
of short, usually spreading and brownish hairs. The third species for the genus. 
