PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 
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to 7 cm wide, rather pale when dry, shining, the base rounded, 
3-nerved, the apex shortly acuminate, the acumen blunt, the 
margins entire, or very slightly undulate above, the upper surface 
pubescent only on the midrib and primary nerves, the lower sur- 
face pubescent also on the reticulations ; basal nerves not extend- 
ing above the middle of the leaf, the lateral ones above the basal 
pair 6 or 7, anastomosing, prominent, the reticulations prominent, 
lax; petioles very pubescent, stout, about 5 mm long. Inflores- 
cence axillary, solitary, umbellate or subracemose, pubescent, 
the peduncles about 1 cm long, the pedicels in fruit about the 
same length. Flowers unknown. Fruit pyriform, obovoid, 
fleshy, 2.5 to 3 cm long, yellowish-green, the pericarp thin, slightly 
puberulent, the mesocarp fleshy, containing numerous fibers, the 
seed apparently solitary. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, Mataas na Cahoy, near Cabanatuan, 
Bur. Sci. 5292 McGregor, September, 1908. 
A species manifestly allied to Grewia stylocarpa Warb., but well dis- 
tinguished by its pubescence, and by its differently shaped fruits. The 
fruits are fleshy, yellowish-green when nearly mature, and have a pleasant 
acid flavor. 
GREWIA OVATA sp. nov. § Eugrewia. 
Frutex scandens, omnibus partibus plus minusve stellato- 
pubescentibus ; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis, subcoriaceis, 
breviter acuminatis, basi cordatis, margine crenato-denticulatis, 
supra scabridis, plus minusve pubescentibus, subtus molliter stel- 
lato-pubescentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus axillaribusque, 
umbellatis; floribus 2 cm longis; fructibus 4-lobatis, circiter 1.5 
cm diametro, extus dense stellato-hirsutis, endocarpio osseo, 4- 
lobato, lobis 2-locellatis. 
A scandent shrub. Branches terete, brownish, and with the 
branchlets densely covered with short, stellate, brownish-oliva- 
ceous hairs. Leaves ovate, subcoriaceous, 7 to 12 cm long, 4 
to 8 cm wide, the upper surface scabrid when dry, brownish, 
distinctly stellate-pubescent, and on the nerves densely so, the 
lower surface paler, rather densely and uniformly stellate-pubes- 
cent, somewhat paler than the upper surface, the apex shortly 
acuminate, the base broad, rounded, distinctly cordate, the mar- 
gins finely and rather uniformly crenate-denticulate ; basal nerves 
reaching to or above the middle, the lateral ones above the basal 
pair 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent ; petioles densely 
pubescent, less than 5 mm long; stipules lanceolate-acuminate, 
pubescent, 2 mm long. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 
umbellate, densely stellate-pubescent with ferruginous hairs, the 
