Through an “overs | 
when published. 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Il. Manila, P. I., March 22, 1909. Art. 34. 
A NEW GREWIA 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
Grewia negrosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Gnarly tree, 3 to 5 m. high; branches crooked, rigid; the _ 
 twigs densely yellowish tomentose; wood whitish, moderately 
hard; bark thick, reddish beneath the blackish brown scaly 
surface. Leaves ovate to ovately elongated, soft membranous, 
light green above, whitish tomentose or lepidote beneath, flat - 
with recurved tips, alternatingly scattered, the average ones 12 — 
em. long, 7 em. wide below the middle, much smaller toward 
the distal end of the branchlets, apex abruptly acute or acumi- | 
- mate, base rounded or shallowly cordate and usually inequilateral, — 
margins entire around the base and finely serrate toward the E. 
apex; nerves 3 to 5 from the base, ascendingly curved, the 
2 to 3 lateral pairs arising above the middle and similarly curved, © 
very prominent beneath, pubescent on the upper side of the — 
blade as well as beneath, the cross bars parallel and quite- 
numerous; petiole exceeding 1 cm. in lenght, gradually thickened, 
densely tomentose; stipule linearly tapering to a sharp point, 5to 
. 8 mm. long, tomentose, deciduous. Inflorescence axillary; 
peduncles 1 to 3, lepidote, ascending, equalling: the petioles; 
pm i mm. jonas M ; rly pu icken 
