300 MERRILL. 



peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm long, each with 4 to 6 flowers, subtended 

 by a whorl of small, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 

 4 to 5 mm long bracteoles. Flowers yellow and white. Sepals 

 2 cm long, oblong-lanceolate, 3.5 mm wide at the base, somewhat 

 narrowed upward, very densely ferruginous-stellate-pubescent 

 outside, obtuse or subacute. Petals 5, thin, oblong, obtuse, 6 

 to 7 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, the basal gland large, prominent, 

 ciliate-pubescent, coriaceous, truncate, about 3 mm long and wide. 

 Stamens indefinite; filaments 6 to 11 mm long; anthers sub- 

 globose, 0.7 mm in diameter. Ovary densely villous with fer- 

 ruginous hairs; style glabrous, 10 to 12 mm long; stigma 1.5 

 mm wide. Fruit depressed, 4-lobed, the lobes rounded, densely 

 stellate-hirsute outside, about 1.5 cm in diameter, the endocarp 

 bony, each lobe 2-celled, each cell with a single seed. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Mateo, For. Bur. 1121 Ahern's collector, 

 May, 1904, Decades Philip. Forest Flora 237 Ahern's collector: Province of 

 Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. H83 Ahern's collector, July, 1904 (type). 



A species manifestly allied to Grewia acuminata Juss. (G. umhellata 

 Roxb.), characterized by its very different and more dense pubescence, its 

 distinctly cordate leaves, etc. 



GREWIA PALAWAN ENSIS sp. nov. § Eugrewia. 



Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, erectus vel subscandens; foliis char- 

 taceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis, 

 margine denticulatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, utrinque, praesertim 

 ad nervos, plus minusve stellato-pubescentibus ; inflorescentiis 

 axillaribus, umbellatis, umbellis solitariis vel fasciculatis, pauci- 

 floris ; floribus circiter 5 mm longis ; f ructibus obovoideis, circiter 

 1 cm diametro, rugosis, parce hirsutis, 4-locellatis, vix lobatis. 



An erect subscandent shrub 2 to 3 m high. Branches terete, 

 brownish or reddish-brown, lenticillate, ultimately glabrous, the 

 younger ones rather densely stellate-puberulent. Leaves char- 

 taceous or subcoriaceous, oblong, 6 to 12 cm long, 2 to 5 cm wide, 

 the base equilateral, rounded, the apex shortly acuminate, the 

 margins denticulate, the upper surface somewhat stellate-pu- 

 bescent on the nerves and midrib, the lower surface with short, 

 scattered, stellate hairs, more dense on the nerves; basal nerves 

 3, prominent, extending above the middle of the leaf, the lateral 

 ones on each side of the midrib about 4, prominent; stipules not 

 seen, apparently very early deciduous; petioles densely stellate- 

 pubescent, 5 to 10 mm long. Umbels axillary, solitary or more 

 usually fascicled, numerous, those in the uppermost axils some- 

 times simulating a terminal inflorescence, densely stellate-pube- 



