NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
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Leaves opposite, oblong-obovate to elliptic-obovate, 20 to 30 cm long, 7 
to 12 cm wide, shining, glabrous, or when young somewhat hirsute 
beneath, subchartaceous, the apex rather abruptly short-acuminate ; nerves 
15 to 18 on each side of the midrib, prominent on both surfaces, the 
reticulations subparallel; petioles 1. 5 to 2 cm long, glabrous, or when 
young somewhat hirsute; stipules interpetiolar, oblong-lanceolate, brown, 
glabrous or sometimes hirsute, 1 to 3 cm long, deciduous, acuminate, 
sometimes cleft. Panicles terminal, grayish-appressed-pubescent, ample, 
the branches and branclilets spreading, many flowered, the flowers mostly 
on the upper half of the branches alternate, not or rarely secund. Flowers 
white, short-pedicelled. Calyx turbinate, the tube short, about 1 mm 
long and nearly 2 mm wide, appressed-gray-pubescent outside, the limb 
1.5 mm long, with 5 broad, short, rounded teeth which are slightly ciliate 
on the margins, none of them accrescent. Corolla-tube about 3 mm 
long, somewhat widened above, the limb with 5 rounded lobes about 1 
mm long, in bud somewhat overlapping to the left, the throat densely 
villous within below the anthers. Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla- 
lobes, the filaments short, inserted on the throat of the tube; anthers 
elliptic, attached at the back above the base, about 1 mm long,- obtuse, 
longitudinally 2-celled, included. Ovary 2-celled; ovules indefinite, on 
the central placenta which is adnate to the disseptment ; style 3 mm long, 
entire, crowned by the subcapitate or ellipsoid stigma which is about 
1.2 mm long and somewhat cleft at the apex. Capsule coriaceous, ap- 
pressed-gray-pubescent, ellipsoid or ovoid, about 4 mm long, 3 to 3.5 
mm thick, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb, septicidal, 2-valved, 
2-celled; seeds numerous, elongated, rather pointed at both ends, some- 
times angular, 1 mm long, externally reticulate-areolate. 
Samar, Borongan, Merrill 5216 (type of the genus and species), October, 1906, 
in flower and fruit, growing along the border of a Nipa swamp; without definite 
locality, Cuming 1113, in fruit, in Herb. Kew. sub Greenea. Luzon, Province of 
Albay, Cabit, Bur. Sci. 61/.02 Robinson, August 31, 1908, near hot springs along 
the seashore, with flowers and fruits; Manito, For. Bur. 10580 Curran, June, 1908, 
along the seashore, in fruit. 
In young specimens, such as the type, the branchlets, inflorescence, and the 
midrib and nerves on the under surface of the leaves are supplied with numerous 
long, brownish hairs, but these are deciduous, the mature specimens being glabrous 
or subglabrous with the exception of the more or less pubescent inflorescence. 
Green iops is multiflora (Elmer) comb. nov. 
Mussaendiopsis multiflora Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 14. 
This differs from the above in having leaves with from 9 to 12 pairs of lateral 
nerves only, the fruits relatively longer and narrower (5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm 
thick), and which are secund on the ultimate branchlets of the infrutesence. 
In habit and general appearance it strongly resembles the preceding species, but 
can be distinguished by the above characters. The flowers are unknown. 
Dinagat, Ahern 1/90. (type) N. v., Hamagos. 
