PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 299 



to 7 cm wide, rather pale when dry, shining, the base rounded, 

 3-nerved, the apex shortly acuminate, the acumen blunt, the 

 margins entire, or very slightly undulate above, the upper surface 

 pubescent only on the midrib and primary nerves, the lower sur- 

 face pubescent also on the reticulations ; basal nerves not extend- 

 ing above the middle of the leaf, the lateral ones above the basal 

 pair 6 or 7, anastomosing, prominent, the reticulations prominent, 

 lax; petioles very pubescent, stout, about 5 mm long. Inflores- 

 cence axillary, solitary, umbellate or subracemose, pubescent, 

 the peduncles about 1 cm long, the pedicels in fruit about the 

 same length. Flowers unknown. Fruit pyriform, obovoid, 

 fleshy, 2.5 to 3 cm long, yellowish-green, the pericarp thin, slightly 

 puberulent, the mesocarp fleshy, containing numerous fibers, the 

 seed apparently solitary. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, Mataas na Cahoy, near Cabanatuan, 

 Bur. Sci. 5292 McGregor, September, 1908. 



A species manifestly allied to Grewia stylocarpa Warb., but well dis- 

 tinguished by its pubescence, and by its differently shaped fruits. The 

 fruits are fleshy, yellowish-green when nearly mature, and have a pleasant 

 acid flavor. 



GREWIA OVATA sp. nov. § Eugrewia. 



Frutex scandens, omnibus partibus plus minusve stellato- 

 pubescentibus ; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis, subcoriaceis, 

 breviter acuminatis, basi cordatis, margine crenato-denticulatis, 

 supra scabridis, plus minusve pubescentibus, subtus molliter stel- 

 lato-pubescentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus axillaribusque, 

 umbellatis; floribus 2 cm longis; fructibus 4-lobatis, circiter 1.5 

 cm diametro, extus dense stellato-hirsutis, endocarpio osseo, 4- 

 lobato, lobis 2-locellatis. 



A scandent shrub. Branches terete, brownish, and with the 

 branchlets densely covered with short, stellate, brownish-oliva- 

 ceous hairs. Leaves ovate, subcoriaceous, 7 to 12 cm long, 4 

 to 8 cm wide, the upper surface scabrid when dry, brownish, 

 distinctly stellate-pubescent, and on the nerves densely so, the 

 lower surface paler, rather densely and uniformly stellate-pubes- 

 cent, somewhat paler than the upper surface, the apex shortly 

 acuminate, the base broad, rounded, distinctly cordate, the mar- 

 gins finely and rather uniformly crenate-denticulate ; basal nerves 

 reaching to or above the middle, the lateral ones above the basal 

 pair 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent; petioles densely 

 pubescent, less than 5 mm long; stipules lanceolate-acuminate, 

 pubescent, 2 mm long. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 

 umbellate, densely stellate-pubescent with ferruginous hairs, the 



