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obscurely stellate hairs, each with a broadly ovate, ferruginous- 

 pubescent, 3 to 4 mm long bract at or below the middle. Sepals 

 reniform, coriaceous, about 6 mm long, 9 mm wide, externally 

 cinereous-pubescent. Petals coriaceous, densely cinereous-pu- 

 bescent on both surfaces, the outer three broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 about 2.5 cm long, 2 cm wide, the inner three somewhat smaller. 

 Anthers very numerous, linear-oblong, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the con- 

 nectives rounded-truncate, not oblique, very slightly produced. 

 Carpels many, linear-oblong, glabrous, including the stigma 3 

 mm long; ovules few. 



Panay, Capiz Province, Jamindan, Bur. Sci. 31367 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 22, 1918, in forests along 'small streams. 



This species is manifestly allied to Uvaria leytensis (Elm.) 

 Merr., from which it is readily distinguished by its distinctly 

 cordate leaves and its cinereous-puberulent flowers. 



UVARIA MACGREGORII sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; foliis char- 

 taceis, oblongo-ovatis et ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 12 cm longis, 

 griseo-olivaceis, apice obtusis, basi rotundatis et plerumque levi- 

 ter cordatis, nervis tenuibus, utrinque circiter 10; floribus cir- 

 citer 2 cm diametro, rubro-brunneis ; sepalis margine f errugineo- 

 pubescentibus ; petalis late ovatis, circiter 1 cm longis, margine 

 ferrugineo-pubescentibus ceteroquin glabris; carpellis anguste 

 oblongis, glabris. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the axillary buds on the 

 young branchlets, and parts of the inflorescences. Leaves firmly 

 chartaceous, oblong-ovate to ovate-elliptic, 8 to 12 cm long, 3.5 to 

 6 cm wide, glabrous on both surfaces, grayish-olivaceous when 

 dry, slightly shining, somewhat narrowed upward to the obtuse 

 apex, base broadly rounded and usually slightly cordate; lateral 

 nerves slender, not prominent, about 10 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, anastomosing ; petioles 5 mm long, black when dry, glabrous. 

 Flowers dark reddish-brown, about 2 cm in diameter (somewhat 

 immature) in short, usually 2-flowered, leaf -opposed inflores- 

 cences, the peduncles 3 mm long or less, the pedicels 5 to 10 mm 

 long, rugose when dry, the subtending bracts oblong, 3 to 4 mm 

 long, the bracts and pedicels with few, scattered, ferruginous 

 hairs, the latter soon becoming glabrous. Sepals broadly ovate 

 to reniform, about 4 mm long, rounded or subacute, coriaceous, 

 rugose when dry, their margins ferruginous-pubescent. Petals 

 broadly ovate about 1 cm long, obtuse to subacute, densely fer- 

 ruginous-pubescent on the margins and toward the tip, otherwise 

 glabrous. Anthers numerous, narrowly oblong, 1.5 mm long, 

 the connectives oblique, slightly produced. Carpels numerous, 



