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rather prominently but widely and obtusely acuminate, base 
rounded, equilateral or nearly so, not or but obscurely 3-nerved, 
glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side of 
the midrib, prominent, curved, obscurely or scarcely anastomos- 
ing, the reticulations slender, the basal pair scarcely different 
from the next pair above and not extending to beyond one- 
fourth or one-third the length of the leaf ; petioles 8 to 14 mm 
long, densely hirsute with simple hairs; stipules oblong, gla- 
brous or slightly pubescent, obtuse, about 7 mm long. Panicles 
axillary and terminal, rather narrow, up to 9 cm in length, the 
rachis and branches prominently and densely subferruginous- 
hirsute with spreading simple hairs, the bracts subtending the 
branches similar to the stipules but slightly smaller. Flowers 
in groups of threes terminating the branchlets, each group sub- 
tended by an involucre of irregular, ovate to oblong, deciduous, 
densely puberulent, about 6 mm long bracts, these usually also 
supplied with a few long, spreading simple hairs externally. 
Flowers yellow, their tomentose pedicels about 2 mm long. Se- 
pals densely puberulent-tomentose, about 8 mm long, oblong- 
spatulate, obtuse, margins strongly indexed throughout. Petals 
none. Torus short, glabrous below, the margins villous. Sta- 
mens about 45, their filaments 4 to 5 mm long. Ovary narrowly- 
ovoid, about 1.3 mm long, puberulent; style slender, glabrous, 
about 4 mm long. 
Samar, Catubig River, at Tagabiran and Mount Capatoan, Bur. Sci. 2H66 
(type), 24489 Ramos, February, 1916, in forests along small streams and 
on damp slopes at low altitudes. A narrow-leaved form is represented by 
Sablaya 17, from the same region. 
The alliance of this species is apparently with Grewia stylocarpa Warb., 
from which it is at once distinguished by its more numerously nerved 
leaves, which are not or but very obscurely 3-nerved at the base, and its 
hirsute inflorescences. Superficially it very closely resembles a series of 
specimens from the Malay Peninsula representing Grewia latifolia Mast., 
but the indumentum of the inflorescence in that species is short and stellate, 
not of simple hairs, while the floral structure is entirely different. 
STERCULIACEAE 
, STERCULIA Linnaeus 
STERCULIA RAMOSII sp. nov. 
Arbor alta, ramulis incrassatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm diametro; foliis 
ovatis, integris, subcoriaceis, brevissime acuminatis, bast sub- 
truncato-rotundatis vix cordatis, 7- vel 9-nerviis, usque ad 25 cm 
longis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, minutissime 
stellato-puberulis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 10; pani- 
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