982 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Art. 54 
IV; 325, 1909. Mussaendopsis multiflora Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 
1: 14, 1900. 
Not known except from the type specimen. 
Greeniopsis pubescens Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 
290, 1910. 
Based on Bureau of Science number 7407, collected by 
Maximo Ramos in the province of Cagayan, northern Luzon. 
Greeniopsis sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Slender tree; stem 15 cm. thick, 8 m. high, terete; 
branches chiefly at the top, rather slender, not numerous, 
spreading, sparingly rebranched; wood moderately hard, heavy, 
bitter, odorless, dirty white; bark smooth, mottled. Leaves 
crowded at the tips of the branchlets, diverse in size, thinly 
eoriaceous, nearly equally green on both sides, glabrous 
above, the entire margins and nerves beneath with soft 
short appressed hairs in the young state, opposite, nearly 
flat, the average ones 8 dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide across 
the middle or a trifle above this, apex gradually tapering 
into an acute point, base slenderly cuneate, elliptically 
oblong or broadly obovate; petiole 1 to 2 em. long, stout, 
the lower side in the young state short pubescent; stipule 
subpersistent, 3 cm. long, brown, 1 cm. wide, acuminate, 
submembranous, glabrous except the dorsal median line 
which bears short gray woolly hairs; nerves prominent be- 
neath, in the young state short yellowish gray hairy, ulti- 
mately glabrous, 15 to 17 pairs, the midvein very prominent, 
ascendingly arched toward their ends, cross bars and fine 
reticulations barely evident. Inflorescence terminal, erect, usual- 
ly exceeding the foliage, thyrsoidly paniculate; peduncle solita- 
ry, pale green, usually branched from above the middle, 
covered with short yellowish gray appressed hairs but gla- 
brous in the fruiting state; branchlets similarly pubescent 
and branched; pedicels very short and subtended by vestiges 
of bracteoles; calyx 5 mm. long, 3 mm. thick toward the 
top, turbinate below the middle, the upper one half di- 
