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densely stellate-pubescent and with scattered, longer, sparingly 
branched hairs intermixed. Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate to 
narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 15 to 20 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, 
narrowed above to the long and slender, often subfalcate, caudate- 
acuminate apex and below to the obtuse, usually slightly in- 
equilateral base, the margins serrate-dentate, the teeth distinct, 
gland-tipped, the upper surface usually olivaceous when dry, 
eglandular, with scattered, short simple hairs, the lower surface 
usually somewhat paler, sparingly stellate-tomentose, minutely 
glandular; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, dis- 
tinct, curved-ascending, anastomosing; petioles densely stellate- 
tomentose, 5 to 8 mm long. Cymes axillary, solitary, peduncled, 
dichotomous, 2 to 4 cm long, rather lax and open, many-flowered, 
the branches divaricate, rather densely pubescent with simple 
and stellate hairs intermixed. Flowers lilac, 4-merous, small, 
the bracteoles linear, pubescent, small. Calyx about 1 mm long, 
sparingly hirsute-pubescent with short, straight, simple hairs, 
obscurely and subequally 4-toothed. Corolla-tube about 2 mm 
long, glabrous, the lobes 4, orbicular-ovate, rounded, about 1 
mm long. Filaments 4 mm long; anthers 0.5 mm long. Style 
slender, 5.5 mm long, slightly thickened near the apex. 
MINDORO, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5556. Ticao, For. Bur. 2534 Clark. 
Cesu, Bur. Sci. 11078 Ramos, March, 1912 (type). MINDANAO, District 
of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n.: District of Zamboanga, Bur. 
Sci. 15802 Fénix, Merrill 8115, Bur. Sci. 11802 Robinson, Williams 2307. 
BASILAN, Hallier s. n., DeVore & Hoover 41. 
This species has been confused with Callicarpa caudata Maxim., and 
C. longifolia Lam., and is manifestly allied to the former, differing in its 
very different indumentum. It is apparently more closely allied to C. steno- 
phylla Merr., than to C. caudata, but is distinguished from the former by 
its broader leaves. Among the extra-Philippine forms it is apparently 
most closely allied to Callicarpa longifolia Lam., differing in its indu- 
mentum, shape of its leaves, and in details of its flowers. 
CALLICARPA MEGALANTHA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, omnibus partibus plus minusve dense 
glandulosis et stellato-plumoso-pubescentibus, indumento obscure 
fusco vel griseo-fusco; foliis oppositis, oblongo-ovatis, subcoria- 
ceis, acuminatis, integris, basi acutis, usque ad 16 cm longis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 9, subtus prominentibus; cymis axillari- 
bus, longe pedunculatis, dense eeihitor es floribus albis, 6 ad 
7 mm longis. 
A tree about 10 m high, most parts, coal the upper surfaces 
_of adult leaves more or less yellow-glandular and stellate-plumose 
pubescent, the indumentum dark-brown or dark grayish-brown 
in color. Branches terete, the younger ones more or less com- 
