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leaves ferruginous-pubescent with short, stiff, appressed hairs. 
Leaves oblong, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brown or suboliva- 
ceous when dry, 11 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 8 cm wide, base 
rounded, cordate, apex somewhat acuminate, both surfaces with 
widely scattered hairs on the midrib and nerves, the lower sur- 
face obscurely puncticulate ; petioles 2 to 3 mm long; lateral 
nerves about 10 on on each side of the midrib, prominent, anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations lax. Flowers crowded in axillary, 
dense, multibracteate fascicles, the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 
prominently pubescent, persistent, 6 to 10 mm long. Staminate 
flowers cylindric, 10 to 11 mm long, externally densely appressed- 
pubescent. Calyx 4.5 mm long, pubescent, 3-lobed, the lobes 
ovate, acuminate, about 2 mm long. Corolla lobes 3, elliptic- 
ovate, apiculate-acuminate, about 3 mm long, the median portion 
of the back pubescent, the broad margins glabrous. Stamens 
8 or 9, inserted at the base, the longer filaments 2 mm long; 
anthers linear, glabrous, 2 mm long. Pistillate flowers not 
seen. Fruits ovoid-ellipsoid, obtuse, about 2.5 cm long, glabrous, 
sessile, brown and shining when dry, 4-celled, each cell with a 
single seed. Seeds oblong, pointed at both ends, about 1.8 cm 
long, triangular in cross-section, the two inner faces plane, the 
outer convex, the chartaceous testa dark-brown, free, somewhat 
puncticulate, the albumen very hard, pale-brownish, uniform, not 
at all ruminate. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Dingalan, Bur. Sci. 256^1, 26S61 (type) 
Ramos & Edano, August, 1916; Sangirin, Alabat Island, Merrill 104H, 
December, 1916; Basiad, Bur. 'Sci. 25592 Yates, December, 1916, along small 
streams in forests at low altitudes. 
A characteristic species that by definition might almost as well be 
placed in Diospyros as in Maba. On account of its trimerous flowers and 
its apparently alliance with Maba punctata Hiern, I have placed it in the 
latter genus. It is readily recognized by its nearly sessile cordate leaves 
and dense, multibracteate fascicles. 
LOGANIACEAE 
GENIOSTOMA Forster 
GENIOSTOMA LONGIPES sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, circiter 2 m altus, ramis teretibus, ramulis 
distincte 4-angulatis; foliis in siccitate nigris, ellipticis ad ob- 
longo-ellipticis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, nitidis, utrinque sub- 
aequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice acutis vel leviter acu- 
minatis, usque ad 7 cm longis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, distinctis ; 
fructibus axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, longe pedunculatis. 
