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rather densely cinereous-pubescent. Pedicels 1 to 2 mm long. 
Calyx-tube obconic, about 2 mm long, the lobes 8, linear, about 
2 mm long, pubescent. Petals 8, somewhat spatulate, obtuse, 
cinereous-pubescent, ciliate on the margins, about 3 mm long. 
Stamens 16, two opposite each petal, their filaments glabrous, 
about 2 mm long. Ovary and style pubescent, the style-arms 
4, about 1 mm long. 
Leyte, Tigbao, near Tacloban, Wenzel 1525 , July 15, 1915, the flowers 
green. 
A species manifestly allied to Homalium luzoniense F.-Vill., but with 
much larger, entire, and somewhat fewer nerved leaves. 
HOMALIUM VILLOSUM sp. nov. § Myriantheia. 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta subtus foliis et ramulis junioribus 
et inflorescentiis dense molliter villosis ; foliis subcoriaceis, ellip- 
ticis, usque ad 8 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, basi 
subacutis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, perspicuis; inflorescentiis 
axillaribus terminalibusque, paniculatis, ramis elongatis, bracteis 
elliptico-ovatis, 3 ad 4 mm longis, membranaceis, villosis ; floribus 
6-meris, petalis sepalisque subaequalibus, villosis, circiter 2 mm 
longis, oblanceolatis ; staminibus 18. 
A tree about 15 m high, the branchlets, inflorescence, and lower 
surface of the leaves densely and softly villous with pale hairs. 
Branches terete, brownish, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, subcoria- 
ceous, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, pale when dry, the 
upper surface shining, glabrous except the puberulent midrib, 
apex shortly blunt-acuminate, base acute, margins distantly cren- 
ulate, the teeth in young leaves crowned with a tuft of hairs; 
lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
anastomosing, curved; petioles densely villous, 2 to 3 mm long. 
Panicles terminal and axillary, the branches numerous, elong- 
ated, densely many-flowered, up to 10 cm long, the flowers 
6-merous, scattered along the rachis, not fascicled, the villous 
pedicels 2 to 2.5 mm long, the bracts prominently ciliate, elliptic 
to ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 3 to 4 mm long. Sepals 6, prominently 
ciliate, oblanceolate, acute or subacute, about 2 mm long. Petals 
similar to the sepals. Stamens three opposite each petal, their 
filaments about 1.4 mm long, sparingly ciliate at the base. Ovary 
villous ; styles 5 or 6, about 1 mm long, sparingly ciliate. 
Samar, near Catbalogan, For. Bur. 22748 Lasquety, August 2, 1914, on 
forested ridges, altitude about 200 meters, locally known as batu-batu. 
This specimen was originally determined as Homalium loheri Merr., but 
belongs in a different section of the genus than this species. It falls 
in the group with Homalium villarianum Vid., but is distinguished from 
