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densely stellate-pubescent and with scattered, longer, sparingly 

 branched hairs intermixed. Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate to 

 narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 15 to 20 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, 

 narrowed above to the long and slender, often subf alcate, caudate- 

 acuminate apex and below to the obtuse, usually slightly in- 

 equilateral base, the margins serrate-dentate, the teeth distinct, 

 gland-tipped, the upper surface usually olivaceous when dry, 

 eglandular, with scattered, short simple hairs, the lower surface 

 usually somewhat paler, sparingly stellate-tomentose, minutely 

 glandular ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, dis- 

 tinct, curved-ascending, anastomosing; petioles densely stellate- 

 tomentose, 5 to 8 mm long. Cymes axillary, solitary, peduncled, 

 dichotomous, 2 to 4 cm long, rather lax and open, many-flowered, 

 the branches divaricate, rather densely pubescent with simple 

 and stellate hairs intermixed. Flowers lilac, 4-merous, small, 

 the bracteoles linear, pubescent, small. Calyx about 1 mm long, 

 sparingly hirsute-pubescent with short, straight, simple hairs, 

 obscurely and subequally 4-toothed. Corolla-tube about 2 mm 

 long, glabrous, the lobes 4, orbicular-ovate, rounded, about 1 

 mm long. Filaments 4 mm long; anthers 0.5 mm long. Style 

 slender, 5.5 mm long, slightly thickened near the apex. 



MiNDORO, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5550. TiCAO, Fo)'. Bur. 2534 Clark. 

 Cebu, Bur. Sci. 11078 Ramos, March, 1912 (type). Mindanao, District 

 of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n.: District of Zamboanga, Bur. 

 Sci. 13€02 Fenix, Merrill 8115, Bur. Sci. 11802 Robinson, Williams 2307. 

 Basilan, Hallier s. n., DeVore & Hoover Ul. 



This species has been confused with Callicarpa caudata Maxim., and 

 C. longifolia Lam., and is manifestly allied to the former, differing in its 

 very different indumentum. It is apparently more closely allied to C. steno- 

 phylla Merr., than to C. caudata, but is distinguished from the former by 

 its broader leaves. Among the extra-Philippine forms it is apparently 

 most closely allied to Callicarpa longifolia Lam., differing in its indu- 

 mentum, shape of its leaves, and in details of its flowers. 



CALLICARPA MEGALANTHA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, omnibus partibus plus minusve dense 

 glandulosis et stellato-plumoso-pubescentibus, indumento obscure 

 fusco vel griseo-f usco ; foliis oppositis, oblongo-ovatis, subcoria- 

 ceis, acuminatis, integris, basi acutis, usque ad 16 cm longis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 9, subtus prominentibus ; cymis axillari- 

 bus, longe pedunculatis, dense multifloris; floribus albis, 6 ad 

 7 mm longis. 



A tree about 10 m high, most parts, except the upper surfaces 

 of adult leaves more or less yellow-glandular and stellate-plumose 

 pubescent, the indumentum dark-brown or dark grayish-brown 

 in color. Branches terete, the younger ones more or less com- 



