319 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [ Vor. I. Arr 16 
the pointed end; ovary glabrous, flattened, obscurely 4-lobed; 
style strict, 2 mm. long, bearing a very short pubescent 
terminal stigma; berries equally flattened at both ends, 16 
mm. across, normally 4-lobed, 1 cm. long. 
Type specimen 8116, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. On banks of streamlets in 
dense woods at 850 meters on Mount Banahao. Ag early 
as 1901 Sr. R. Garcia, collected it at Surigao, Mindanao. 
The writer also collected it at Sablan, Provinee of Benguet, 
Luzon, in 1904. More recently Sr. Maximo Ramos collected 
fine fruiting specimens at Antipolo, Province of Rizal, Luzon. 
TILIACEAE. 
Grewia banahaensis n. sp.—Small trees, with ultimate 
branches lax and slender; wood hard, covered with brown 
bark. Leaves glabrous or only subglabrous beneath, not 
numerous, but scattered along the divaricate subglabrous very 
thin twigs, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, alternate apex 
slenderly acuminate, base obtuse, 13 cm. long by 3 cm. wide, 
membranous, flat or only the tips recurved, the lower one 
half entire, the upper margins obscurely undulate, slightly 
paler beneath; nerves 3 to 5 pairs, much ascending and 
submarginally united, the lowest pair arising from the base, 
with minute axillary glands, petioles 1 em. long, pulverulent- 
Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, the solitary yellowish 
green flowers upon ascending 1 to 1.5 cm. long pulverulent 
pedicels; calyx leathery, brown pulverulent, united at the 
base, the 5 strap like segments radially spreading and about 
6 mm. in length; petals 5, at most 3 mm. long, 1.25 mm. 
wide, base strongly recurved and abruptly constricted into 
& point, apex truncate or irregularly toothed, soft pubescent 
on the exterior; stamens 4 to 5 mm. long, the lower 1.5 mm. 
united, subglabrous, 10, fertile, the alternating appendages 
sterile; anthers basifixed, 0.75 mm. long, ovate, sagittate at 
base; ovary costate, pubescent; style glabrous especially above 
the middle, 3 mm. long; stigma minute, terminal; young 
fruit obovoid, pointed, subterete or obscurely 3-angled, 
3-creased, 1 cm. long, 7 em. in diameter, gray and felt 
like, normally 3-celled, with 1 to 3 seeds in each cell. 
