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pubescent, bearing a loose cluster of 3 to 5 flowers, sub- 
tended by large brown bracts; calyx densely yellowish pu- 
bescent, 14 mm. long including the 5 mm. long sharply 
acuminate segments; one of these is oiten enlarged to a 
nearly white, ovate, acuminate, persistent bract; corolla tu- 
bular, 4 em. long including the 5 segments, exterior pubes- 
cent, glabrous on the interior below the middle, yellow; seg- 
ments thick, quite broad, obtuse, pubescent on the lower 
side, felty on the upper; stamens 5, attached a trifle above 
the middle of the corolla tube; anthers linear, 5 mm. long; 
filaments very short; style glabrous, bearing 2 elongated and 
subcompressed stigmatic arms; fruit fleshy, dark brown, 2 
cm. long or longer, 1 cm. in diameter, equally tapering at 
both ends, densely set with warty excrescencies, 2-celled; 
seeds very numerous, embedded in a pulpy tissue, subor- 
bicularly flattened, light brown, very short pubescent, pitted. 
Type specimen 5935 A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1904. The flowers are sweetly 
fragrant, and the mature fruits have the odor and taste of 
raisins. 
MUSSAENDOPSIS BAILL. 
1. M. multiflora n. sp. Shrub or possibly a small tree; 
its ultimate branches glabrous or finely yellowish pubescent; 
subcompressed. Leaves opposite, glabrous, membranous, dark- 
er green on the upper surface, obovate or oblanceolate, the 
larger ones 35 cm. long and 15 cm. across, with a petiole 1 
or 2 cm. long, apex short acute, base long attenuate, with 
9 to 12 pairs of nerves; stipule 1 cm. long, glabrous, brown, 
acuminate. Inflorescence terminal or from the uppermost 
axils, long pedunculate, forming a broadly rounded panicle, 
almost 40 cm. wide and nearly that in length; its main 
branches short yellowish pubescent, compressed, usually in 
pairs, divarieate; flowers not seen; capsules short pubescent, 
secundly disposed, upon 1 mm. long pedicels, 4 mm. long, 
subterete, 2 mm. in diameter, 2-celled, septicidally dehiscing 
usually from the base, crowned by the 5 persistent erect 
broadly rounded calyx segments; seeds numerous, minute, 
flattened, submembranously winged. 
