Laeta msi 
1458 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 73 
Discovered in rocky soil of a damp deeply wooded cut 
along a streamlet at 1750 feet along the trail toward Espaiia. 
Named after Mr. Richard C. McGregor who first collected it. 
LEPINIOPSIS Val. i 
Lepiniopsis philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 
Slender tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 m. high, branched from 
above the middle or toward the top only; branchlets slender, 
freely bleeding with latex, divaricately spreading, the ultimate | 
ones lax and very flexible, the terminal glabrous portion suberect ; 
wood sappy white or yellowish toward the center, odorless, soft, 
bitterish; bark smoothish and more or less mottled. Leaves, 
ascending, glabrous, shallowly folded upon the upper deep green 
surface, paler beneath, thickly coriaceous, drying dull brown, 
alternatingly clustered toward the ends of the twigs, oblong but . 
usually a trifle wider in the upper one half, the average blades 
12 em. long by 4 em. wide, abruptly acute to acuminate and sA 
recurved at the apex, obtuse or subcuneate at the base, the entire 1 
margins when dry more or less involute, the smallest leaves 
obovately lanceolate; midrib boldly raised beneath, sunken on the 
upper side; lateral nerves divaricate, very minute beneath, on 
the upper surface appearing as if reticulately branched; petiole 
also glabrous, somewhat compressed, 2 em. long. Inflorescence 
usually arising in subwhorls at the ends of the young branchlets, 
appearing lateral; peduncles varying from 3 to 5 em. long, stout, 
strictly ascending or erect, dark green, rigid, glabrous, few 
dichotemously branched toward the end or at least from above 
the middle, the ultimate branchlets very short; flowers arising 
from the very thick yellowish gray and more or less concentric- 
ally scaly flower and fruit bearing ultimate portion; calyx 
2.5 mm. long, broadly elliptic, glabrous; segments straight, rather 
ue thick, imbricate, 5, more or less united at the base, obtuse at 
.  . Apex, ovately oblong; corolla tube reddish and cylindric, 7.5 
. . mm. long, 1.5 mm. thick, glabrous except the pubescent region 
. below the stamens which cause a slight bulge at about the 
xe middle; segments as many as calyx segments, yellowish, rotately 
iS oma ses 1.5 mm. S at least 5 mm. long; stamens 
