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Leaves opposite, oblong-obovate to elliptic-obovate, 20 to 30 cm long, 7 

 to 12 cm wide, shining, glabrous, or when young somewhat hirsute 

 beneath, subchartaceous, the apex rather abruptly short-acuminate ; nerves 

 15 to 18 on each side of the midrib, prominent on both surfaces, the 

 reticulations subparallel; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long, glabrous, or when 

 young somewhat hirsute; stipules interpetiolar, oblong-lanceolate, brown, 

 glabrous or sometimes hirsute, 1 to 3 cm long, deciduous, acuminate, 

 sometimes cleft. Panicles terminal, grayish-appressed-pubescent, ample, 

 the branches and branchlets spreading, many flowered, the flowers mostly 

 on the upper half of the branches alternate, not or rarely secund. Flowers 

 white, short-pedicelled. Calyx turbinate, the tube short, about 1 riim 

 long and nearly 2 mm wide, appressed-gray-pubescent outside, the limb 

 1.5 mm long, with 5 broad, short, rounded teeth which are slightly ciliate 

 on the margins, none of them accrescent. Corolla-tube about 3 mm 

 long, somewhat widened above, the limb with 5 rounded lobes about 1 

 mm long, in l)ud somewhat overlapping to the left, the throat densely 

 villous within below the anthers. Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla- 

 lobes, the filaments short, inserted on the throat of the tube ; anthers 

 elliptic, attached at the back above the base, about 1 mm long, obtuse, 

 longitudinally 2-celled, included. Ovary 2-celled; ovules indefinite, on 

 the central placenta which is adnate to the disseptment; style 3 mm long, 

 entire, crowned by the subcapitate or ellipsoid stigma which is about 

 1.2 mm long and somewhat cleft at the apex. Capsule coriaceous, ap- 

 pressed-gray-pubescent, ellipsoid or ovoid, about 4 mm long, 3 to 3.5 

 mm thick, crowned by the persistent cal3rx-limb, septicidal, 2-valved, 

 2-celled; seeds numerous, elongated, rather pointed at both ends, some- 

 times angular, 1 mm long, externally reticulate-areolate. 



Samar, Borongan, Merrill 5216 (type of the genus and species), October, 1906, 

 in flower and fruit, growing along the border of a Nipa swamp; without definite 

 .locality, Cuming 1113, in fruit, in Herb. Kew. sub Greenea. Luzon, Province of 

 Albay, Cabit, Bur. Sci. 6^02 Robinson, August 31, 1908, near hot springs along 

 the seashore, with flowers and fruits; Manito, For. Bur. 10580 Curran, June, 1908, 

 along the seashore, in fruit. 



In young specimens, such as the type, the branchlets, inflorescence, and the 

 midrib and nerves on the under surface of the leaves are supplied with numerous 

 long, brownish hairs, but these are deciduous, the mature specimens being glabrous 

 or subglabrous with the exception of the more or less pubescent inflorescence. 



Green iopsis multiflora (Ellmer) comb. nov. 



Mussaendiopsis multiflora Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 14. 



This differs from the above in having lea\es with from 9 to 12 pairs of lateral 

 nerves only, the fruits relatively longer and narrower (5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm 

 thick), and which are secund on the ultimate branchlets of the infrutesence. 

 In habit and general appearance it strongly resembles the preceding species, but 

 can be distinguished by the above characters. The flowers are unknown. 



DiNAGAT, Ahem J/OO. (type) N. v., Eamagos. 



