300 
MERRILL. 
peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm long, each with 4 to 6 flowers, subtended 
by a whorl of small, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 
4 to 5 mm long bracteoles. Flowers yellow and white. Sepals 
2 cm long, oblong-lanceolate, 3.5 mm wide at the base, somewhat 
narrowed upward, very densely ferruginous-stellate-pubescent 
outside, obtuse or subacute. Petals 5, thin, oblong, obtuse, 6 
to 7 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, the basal gland large, prominent, 
ciliate-pubescent, coriaceous, truncate, about 3 mm long and wide. 
Stamens indeflnite; filaments 6 to 11 mm long; anthers sub- 
globose, 0.7 mm in diameter. Ovary densely villous with fer- 
ruginous hairs; style glabrous, 10 to 12 mm long; stigma 1.5 
mm wide. Fruit depressed, 4-lobed, the lobes rounded, densely 
stellate-hirsute outside, about 1.5 cm in diameter, the endocarp 
bony, each lobe 2-celled, each cell with a single seed. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Mateo, For. Bur. 1121 Ahern’s collector, 
May, 1904, Decades Philip. Forest Flora 237 Ahern’s collector: Province of 
Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. H83 Ahern’s collector, July, 1904 (type). 
A species manifestly allied to Grewia acuminata Juss. (G. umbellata 
Roxb.), characterized by its very different and more dense pubescence, its 
distinctly cordate leaves, etc. 
GREWIA PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. § Eugrewia. 
Frutex 2 ad 3 m^ altus, erectus vel subscandens; foliis char- 
taceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis, 
margine denticulatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, utrinque, praesertim 
ad nervos, plus minusve stellato-pubescentibus ; inflorescentiis 
axillaribus, umbellatis, umbellis solitariis vel fasciculatis, pauci- 
floris ; floribus circiter 5 mm longis ; fructibus obovoideis, circiter 
1 cm diametro, rugosis, parce hirsutis, 4-locellatis, vix lobatis. 
An erect subscandent shrub 2 to 3 m high. Branches terete, 
brownish or reddish-brown, lenticillate, ultimately glabrous, the 
younger ones rather densely stellate-puberulent. Leaves char- 
taceous or subcoriaceous, oblong, 6 to 12 cm long, 2 to 5 cm wide, 
the base equilateral, rounded, the apex shortly acuminate, the 
margins denticulate, the upper surface somewhat stellate-pu- 
bescent on the nerves and midrib, the lower surface with short, 
scattered, stellate hairs, more dense on the nerves; basal nerves 
3, prominent, extending above the middle of the leaf, the lateral 
ones on each side of the midrib about 4, prominent; stipules not 
seen, apparently very early deciduous; petioles densely stellate- 
pubescent, 5 to 10 mm long. Umbels axillary, solitary or more 
usually fascicled, numerous, those in the uppermost axils some- 
times simulating a terminal inflorescence, densely stellate-pube- 
