•230 MERRILL. 



Pod about 1.5 cm long, hirsute, long-stalked; seeds 4. Placenta per- 

 sistent, not separating from the capsule in dehiscence. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Balanga Mountains, For. Bur. 19258 Curran, Jan- 

 uary, 1910. 



A species well characterized by its narrowly lanceolate, long leaves and by its 

 large flowers. 



RUBIACE.^. 



GREENIOPSIS Merr. 



Green iopsis pubescens sp. nov. 



Arbor parva vel mediocris, omnibus partibus plus minus dense brunneo- 

 pubescens; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vel oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 

 40 em longis, longe acuminatis, basi angustatis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 20, stipulis 3 cm longis; capsulis 4 mm longis. 



A small or medium-sized tree pubescent throughout. Branches stout, 

 the ultimate ones about 8 mm in diameter, pubescent with short brownish 

 hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 20 to 40 cm 

 long, 6 to 11 cm wide, subcoriaceous, shining when dry, both surfaces 

 pubescent with rather short hairs, or the upper subglabrous, entire, the 

 apex rather slenderly long-acuminate, narrowed to the base, the lamina 

 decurrent practically to the base of the short petiole, so that the 

 leaves are subsessile; nerves about 20 on each side of the midrib, prom- 

 inent, curved, anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations distinct ; stipules 

 oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, 3 cm long, 1 cm Avide at the base, acu- 

 minate, at first pubescent, becoming nearly glabrous, deciduous. Panicles 

 terminal and in the upper axils, pedimcled, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 branched at or above the middle, the rachis, branches and branchlets 

 densely brown-pubescent with short hairs, the branches flower-bearing 

 only above the middle. Flowers white, pedicelled, the calyx pubescent, 

 about 3 mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, becoming somewhat inflated, 

 the teeth 5, short, truncate, imbricate, broader then long. Corolla rather 

 densely pubescent outside, the throat villous within, the tube about 2 mm 

 long, rather abruptly enlarged above, the lobes 5, rounded, imbricate, 

 about 1.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide. Anthers 1.4 mm long. Capsules 

 subsecund on the ultimate branchlets, oblong or oblong-ovoid, densely 

 pubescent, 4 mm long, the persistent calyx-teelh nbhnio-. |)ul)oseent on 

 both surfaces. 



Luzon, Province of Isabela, Bicobian Bay, liur. Sci. lf)G')9 Mcdrcf/or, August, 

 1909: Province of Cagayan, Bur. 8ci. ^,01 Ramos, March, 1909 (type). 



In general appearance very similar to the other two species of the genus, but 

 well characterized by its rather uniformly distributed pubescence, which consists ^ 

 of shfirt, usually spreading and brownish hairs. The (bird species for the genus. 



