328 MERRILL. 



eels 1 to 1.5 mm long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1 mm long. 

 Calyx about 2 mm long, the lobes ovate, obtuse or acute, about 

 8 mm long, marked with longitudinal lines, obscurely glandular, 

 the tube and lobes densely pilose. Corolla about 1.8 mm long, the 

 lobes suborbicular, rounded, slightly glandular-punctate, about 

 one-half as long as the corolla. Anthers 0.5 mm long, exceeding 

 the filaments. Ovary wholly inferior, the apex quite glabrous. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 7109 Ramos, February 

 7, 1909, said to grow in forests at an altitude of about 300 m. 



A species allied to Maesa manillensis Mez, but very distinct from that 

 species; it is well characterized by its rather dense, soft, ferruginous 

 tomentum. 



MAESA PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. § Eumaesa. 



Species ut videtur M. ramentaceae affinis, differt foliis mino- 

 ribus, crasse coriaceis, inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque 

 puberulis. 



Apparently a scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflores- 

 cence, the branches terete, lenticellate, the reddish-brown slender 

 branchlets terete, with few scattered lenticels. Leaves ovate to 

 elliptic-ovate, thickly coriaceous, pale and shining when dry, of 

 about the same color on both surfaces, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 4 

 cm wide, the base roundad or acute, the apex obtuse or very 

 broadly and shortly acuminate, margins entire; lateral nerves 

 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, the retic- 

 ulations obscure ; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence puber- 

 ulent, axillary, solitary, narrow, bipinnately-paniculate, by the 

 reduction of the upper leaves forming terminal panicles, the 

 lower ones 10 cm long or less, their branches less than 1 cm in 

 length, the upper ones much shortened, the upper reduced leaves 

 about 1 cm long, narrowly oblong. Flowers unknown, race- 

 mosely arranged. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, puberulent, acumi- 

 nate, about 1.5 mm long, the pedicels about 1.2 mm long, with 

 two, ovate, acuminate, 1 mm long bracteoles immediately below 

 the fruit. Fruit globose, glabrous, about 2 mm in diameter, 

 the persistent calyx-lobes reniform-ovate, about 0.5 mm long, 

 not punctate, their margins minutely ciliate. 



Cebu, hills back of the City of Cebu, Bur. Sci. 11030 Ramos, March, 1912. 



A species apparently closely allied to Measa ramcntacea Wall., from 

 which it differs in its smaller, much thicker leaves, and its puberulent 

 inflorescence. It is distinguishable among the Philippine species by its very 

 thick, entire, glabrous leaves in conjunction with is puberulent axillary and 

 pseudo-terminal inflorescence. 



