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MERRILL. 
cels 1 to 1.5 mm long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1 mm long. 
Calyx about 2 mm long, the lobes ovate, obtuse or acute, about 
8 mm long, marked with longitudinal lines, obscurely glandular, 
the tube and lobes densely pilose. Corolla about 1.8 mm long, the 
lobes suborbicular, rounded, slightly glandular-punctate, about 
one-half as long as the corolla. Anthers 0.5 mm long, exceeding 
the filaments. Ovary wholly inferior, the apex quite glabrous. 
Fruit unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 7109 Ramos, February 
7, 1909, said to grow in forests at an altitude of about 300 m. 
A species allied to Maesa manillensis Mez, but very distinct from that 
species; it is -well characterized by its rather dense, soft, ferruginous 
tomentum. 
MAESA PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. § Eumaesa. 
Species ut videtur M. ramentaceae affinis, differt foliis mino- 
ribus, crasse coriaceis, inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque 
puberulis. 
Apparently a scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflores- 
cence, the branches terete, lenticellate, the reddish-brown slender 
branchlets terete, with few scattered lenticels. Leaves ovate to 
elliptic-ovate, thickly coriaceous, pale and shining when dry, of 
about the same color on both surfaces, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 4 
cm wide, the base rounded or acute, the apex obtuse or very 
broadly and shortly acuminate, margins entire; lateral nerves 
5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, the retic- 
ulations obscure; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence puber- 
ulent, axillary, solitary, narrow, bipinnately-paniculate, by the 
reduction of the upper leaves forming terminal panicles, the 
lower ones 10 cm long or less, their branches less than 1 cm in 
length, the upper ones much shortened, the upper reduced leaves 
about 1 cm long, narrowly oblong. Flowers unknown, race- 
mosely arranged. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, puberulent, acumi- 
nate, about 1.5 mm long, the pedicels about 1.2 mm long, with 
two, ovate, acuminate, 1 mm long bracteoles immediately below 
the fruit. Fruit globose, glabrous, about 2 mm in diameter, 
the persistent calyx-lobes reniform-ovate, about 0.5 mm long, 
not punctate, their margins minutely dilate. 
Cebu, hills back of the City of Cebu, Bur. Sci. 11030 Ramos, March, 1912. 
A species apparently closely allied to Measa ramentacea Wall., from 
which it differs in its smaller, much thicker leaves, and its puberulent 
inflorescence. It is distinguishable among the Philippine species by its very 
thick, entire, glabrous leaves in conjunction with is puberulent axillary and 
pseudo-terminal inflorescence. 
