DFKI-SLT/copious huggingface dataset:
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 263 12028 Merritt. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For, Bur. 6565, 9496 Hutchin-son, For. Bur. 9040, 9289 Whitford & Hutchinson. Basilan, For. Bur. 12369 Hutchinson. Many of our specimens are fragmentary and it is quite possible that there may be more than one species in the material cited above. The following numbers seem to belong to what Whitford 12 calls black yacal. The chief apparent difference in herbarium material seems to be that the leaves are a little broader and, perhaps, more inclined to be coriaceous. In drying, the leaves turn very dark and are more or less covered above with a glaucescence. Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur, 19445 Agama: Province of Zam-bales, For. Bur. 13201, 13202 Cortes. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9004 Whitford & Hutchinson. This species produces a resin or gum dammar, which is sometimes collected by the natives and used for torches. The flowering time of this species is not understood. Blanco, l. c, says that it flowers only in the month of March. In some sections, the people tlaim that it flowers only once in five or seven years. Native names: yacal (Tag.), saplongan (Tag.), siggay (Cag.), betic (11.), guisoc (B., V., Moro), taggai (II.)-5. Hopea sp. "Naric." Leaves narrowly oblong, 5 to 10 cm long, I6 to 26 mm wide, apex long-caudate-acuminate, base rounded, secondary nerves 10 to 12 pairs, with domatia in. their axils. Petiole 3 to 5 mm long. Stipules, early deciduous. Luzon, Province of Cagayan. For. Bur. 6497, 13414 Klemme. The following two numbers probably do not belong here; but, I do not know where else to place them. Luzon, Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 589 Barnes, Mar. 1904. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9404 Whitford & Hutchinson, Feb. 1908. 6. Hopea sp. "Gyam." This large tree seems to be the same as that which occurs under the same name in the eastern part of British North Borneo. The bark is thin and brownish. The wood is a very heavy and very hard yacal. A tree of rather gregarious habit, growing on low flat lands near the coast. The leaves are elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 3 to 6 cm long and 1.5 to 2 cm wide, apex bluntly caudate-acuminate, base cuneate; secondary nerves 5 to 7 pairs, with very large domatia in their axils on the under side. Perhaps the most distinct species which we have in the genus. A single sterile specimen from Tawi Tawi, For. Bur,: 13380, collected by W. Schuck, June, 1910. 7. Hopea ovalifolia Boerl. in Cat. Hort. Bot. Bog. 1 (1899) 102. The description of this species is very meager and is from sterile material ; but we have a sheet from the garden at Buitenzorg, determined by Dr. Boerlage as this species and it seems to correspond quite closely to a collection of ours, also sterile. "Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10^2 (1911) 73.
264 FOXWORTHY. Leaves oval 12 to 18 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, shortly acuminate, secondary nerves about 12 arcuate-ascending, rather prominent on under side of leaf, the younger parts minutely lepidote, Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9133, 9374, Whitford & Hutchin son, Dec. 1907, Jan. 1908. Sect. II. Petalandra Hassk. (genus). Secondary nerves conspicuous, not approximate, not more than 20 pairs ; tertiany nerves generally parallel, approximate, but not conspicuous. Stamens 10, on broad short filaments, which are sometimes monadelphous. Stylopodium either wanting, or a fleshy rim or tube on the top of the truncated ovary. The only Philippine species which we know to belong to this section is the following. 8. Hopea acuminata Morr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 30; Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 98; Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 389, 4 (1909) Bot. 514, pl 27, f. 68; Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 703, Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10^2 (1911) 75, pl. 80. A tree reaching a height of 40 m, with broadly lanceolate, narrowly acuminate, glabrous leaves, 8 cm long or less, and small flowers m uni-lateral racemes, which are arranged in terminal and axillary panicles. . Branches nearly black when dry, glabrous, striate. Leaves 4 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, submembranaceous, shining above, the base inequilateral, rounded at least on one side of the lamina, the apex long-slender-acmninate; nerves 8 to 10 pairs, rather prominent beneath; petioles 5 to 8 mm long, rugose, glabrous. Inflorescence grayish-stellate-pubescent, the panicles 5 to 6 cm long or less, the spicate branches 1.5 cm long or less. Calyx rusty-pubescent, the sepals 5, imbricate, the outer two slightly larger than the inner. Petals slightly pubescent on the outside, falcate, 4 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, obtuse. Stamens 10; filaments thick; anthers 0.4 mm long, the single appendage slender, equaling the anther m length. Ovary glabrous, 3-celled, each cell 2-ovuled; style short; stylopodium none. Fruit glabrous, the two wings oblong, about 2 cm long, 5 mm wide, the apex rounded. A tall tree, with a slender, straight trunk, growing in the hill forests from an altitude of 100 to about 800 m above the sea. Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 17209 Curran: Province of Ilocos Norte, For, Bur. 13869, 13874 Merritt & Darling: Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 10887 Curran, For. Bur. 18028 Merritt: Province of La Union, For. Bur. Paraiso: Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 14357 Villamil: Province of Tarlac, For. Bur. 1515405 Agama: Province of Nueva Ecija, For. Bur. 22387, 22390 Alvarez: Province of Bulacan, Bur. Sci. 12269 Foxworthy: Province of Bataan, For Bur. 786 Borden, May 1904, in flower, (type), Whitford 335, May 1904, in flower, For. Bur. 1175, 1245 Borden, For. Bur. 1592 Borden, Aug. 1904, in fruit; Merrill 3864, Aug. 1904, in fruit, Bur. Sci. 1563 Foxicorthy, For. Bur. 7497, 17565 Curran,
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCAEPACEAE. 265 For Bur. 7504, Curran, Sept. 1907, in fruit: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 10115 Curran, For. Bur. 12684, Rosenbluth & Tamesis, For. Bur. 11721 Whitford, For Bur 13349 Tamesis: Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 7095 Kobbe, May 1907, in flower, For. Bur. 10385, 10390 Curran, For. Bur. 11510 Whitford, For. Bur. 18653 Darling, For. Bur. 23002 Aguilar: Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 4532 Barredo, For. Bur. 10459 Curran: Province of Albay. For. Bur. 15070 Rosenbluth: Province of Sorsogon, For. Bur. 4525 Zschokke, For. Bur. 5751 Pray. Mindoro, For Bur. 7174 Merritt. Leyte, For. Bur. 12728 Rosenbluth. Mindanao, Province of Misamis. For. Bur. 15472 Pray: District of Davao, For. Bur. 11557 Whitford Native names: mangachapuy (Tag., V.), dalindingan (Tag.), barosingsing (Iloc.). Sect III. Dryobalanoides. Secondary nerves numerous, approximate, not prominent, and often obscure. Stamens 15. Stylopodium in some species wanting, indicated by a hairy ring. 9. Hopea pierrei Hance in Journ. Bot. 15 (1877) 329 ; Brandis jn Journ. Linn. Soe Bot. 31 (1895) 67, pl. 2, f. 10; Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 515; Whitford in Philip. Bur. Fox. Bull. 10^2 (1911) 76. H. micrantha Hance in Journ. Bot. 14 (1876) 242, non Hook f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 23 (1862) 161. Hancea pierrei Pierre Fl. For. Cochinch. (1891) t. 248. Medium-Sized trees ; branchlets glabrous, only petioles and ramifications of inflorescence slightly puberulous; small hairy glands (domatia) usually found in axils of secondary nerves. Flowers drooping, pedicellate, in unilateral racemes, these distichous and regularly alternating, forming short axillary racemose panicles. Bracteoles ciliate. Calyx glabrous; petals sericeous outside; awn of connective more than twice as long as the anther. Stylopodium glabrous as well as ovary, constricted below; style very short; stigma obtuse. Fruit ovoid, slightly acuminate very tightly enclosed by the 5 calyx-segments which are indurated at the base. Both cotyledons bifid to base, the radicular somewhat larger; hypocotyl half the length of embryo, cotyledons filled with starch. Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 17075, 17206, 17256 Curran: Province of Pangasinan, For. bur. 9638 Zschokke; Province of Nueva Ecija, Bur. Sci. 13702 Foxworthy, For. Bur. 22195 Alvarez: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 8231 Curran & Merritt: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 10150, 10157 Curran, For. Bur. 15352 Tamesis, Bur. Sci. 8982 Foxworthy, For. Bur. 17638, 17645 Curran, Feb 1910, in fruit, For. Bur.22499, 22500 Mariano: Province of Tayabas, Whit ford 792, Sept 1904, with young flowers, For. Bur. 12810 Rosenbluth: Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 10579, 10618 Curran: Province of Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10599, 10627 Curran. Polillo, Bur. Sri. 10285 McGregor. Mindoro, For. Bur. 6726 Merritt, April 1907, in flower, For. Bur. 8742, 11399, 12072 Merritt. Negros, Province of Negros Occidental, For. Bur. 17365 Curran. Common names: dalindingan isak (Tag.), malatagum (B.), makitarem (Sor.), lito (Sor.), mangachapuy (T., V.), pisak (Cag.). Distribution: Cambodia, Singapore, Borneo and the Philippines
266 FOXWORTHY. 10. Hopea sp. A form which differs from H. pierrei in having usually more uniform, smaller and narrower leaves and green, short-stalked fruit. The leaves seem to be without domatia. It is possible that some of the sterile material which has been referred to H. pierrei, may belong to this species and the next. A single collection from the Island of Sibuyan, Elmer 12071, March 1910, in fruit. 11. Hopea sp. This differs from H. pierrei in having a much larger fruit, which is sometime glutinous. Sibuyan, Elmer 12289, April 1910, in fruit. Luzon, Province of La Laguna, Phil PL. 397 Ramos, August 1910, in fruit. 4. PENTACME A. DC. Sepals strongly imbricate. Petals broad, spreading. Stamens 15. Anthers oblong, on short broad filaments. Anther-cells equal, each pro-longed into a short appendix; the connective also prolonged, so that each anther has 5 apical appendages. Ovary glabrous, prolonged into a conical stylopodium; style filiform, glabrous. Stigma obtuse, indistinctly 3-toothed. The three outer segments of fruiting-calyx much larger than the others, narrowed into a stalk, but expanding into a broad base, which is adpressed to the lower portion of the fruit but does not enclose it. Four species known, two from the eastern Indian peninsula and two from the Philippine Islands. The wood is the least durable of any of our dipterocarps, but is considerably used because it is so abundant and readily worked and it is very satisfactory for purposes of temporary construction. There is quite a little resin present in the wood, but so far as I know, it is not used commercially. Pith with 12 to 25 resin-canals. Petiole with a semicircle of 7 to 9 vascular bundles, each with one resin-canal; 3 resin-canals in the central mass. 1. Pentacme contorta (Vidal) Merrill & Rolfe in Phil. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 115; Merritt in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 8 (1908) 48; Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 703, Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10^2 (1911) 62, pls. 56, 57; Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 511, 516. Shorea contorta Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) xv, t. 15, f. E; Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 88; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 88; Merr. jn Phil. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 98; Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 386. Pentacme paucinervis Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 73; Merrill & Rolfe in Phil. Journ. Sci. 1. e.
268 FOXWORTHY. mens 247, Feb. 1906, in flower: District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9042, 9184 Whitford & Hutchinson. Basilan, For. Bur. 4OO4 Hutchinson, Feb. 1906, with immature fruit, For. Bur. 4813 Hutchinson, July 1906, fruit. This species has been collected in flower in the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, and July, and in fruit in the months of February, April, June, July, August, September, October, and December. Native names: lauan (Tag.), balac (Cag. Negrito), apnit (Cag., Iloc), balocbac (Negrito), malaanonan (Tag.), danlig (V.). 2. Pentacme sp. Leaves broadly oblongs shortly and abruptly acuminate, base rounded; stipules 2 to 3 cm long, 7 to 8 mm wide, lanceolate or oblanceolate ; secondary nerves about 15 pairs. Young shoots, petioles and underside of leaves covered with a grayish tomentum. Wood soft and white, with much the same structure as that of P. contorta but finer-grained. Bark dark and fissured. A tree of the low flat forest near the beach. Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For, Bur. 10333 Curran. This form seems to show some points of resemblance to Pentacme siamensis Kurz. 5. SHOREA Roxb. Large resinous trees; stipules in a few species large and persistent, in most small and early deciduous. Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous; secondary nerves prominent; tertiary nerves mostly parallel. Flowers as a rule in unilateral spikes or racemes, these distichous and regularly alternating on the branches of large axillary and terminal panicles. Each flower subtended by two, mostly deciduous, in a few species persistent and conspicuous, bracts. Sepals strongly imbricate, always hairy outside, and often inside also, on the margin of a broad obconical receptacle. Petals oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, hairy on the outside. Stamens generally 15, in some species more. Anther-cells generally equal; connective prolonged into a pointed appendage, generally longer than the anther, sometimes short or wanting. Segments of fruiting calyx with their broad bases tightly enclosing the fruit, the three outer ones generally longer than the others and much longer than the fruit. Ripe seed generally without albumen. Cotyledons thick, fleshy, generally both bifid to their base, that is to the point where they are attached to the apex of the hypocotyl (radicle) or to the petioles. Pith with 3 to 30 perimedullary resin-canals, with now small now wide lumen. The structure of the petiole is various; usually it shows the characteristic form; viz., a semicircle of 7 to 9 isolated vascular bundles with alternating resin-canals and a central bundle-system without resin-canals; in other species there is found a central bundle system with no or 1 to 3 resin-canals. The largest genus in the family; with more than 90 species, with 14 species in the Philippines. Of our Philippine species four, S. balangeran, S. eximia, S. squamata, and S. teysmanniana are extra-Philippine in distribution.
PHILIPPINE DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 271 A translation of Blanco's original description for Mocanera malaanonan is as follows: Leaves ovate, lanceolate, broad, abruptly pointed, whitish beneath. Calyx divided almost to the base into five oblong parts, constricted a little above the fruit; the three exterior more than 7.5 cm long. Fruit oval, free at maturity, surrounded by the calyx, outer covering fragile, crowned with a long style, which bears three stigmas, and with a seed of three or four lobules in a compartment. Trees of some diameter, known at Angat by the rather equivocal name of malaanonang; the leaves have a length of a span, they are broad and the new ones are whitish and soft beneath. This distinguishes it sufficiently from other members of the genus. The tree also gives an odorous resin, but in small quantity. Vidal's description of S. polita evidently refers to a narrower form and is as follows : Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acute at apex, rounded at base, the margin somewhat undulate; leaf blade 6 to 12 cm by 2 to 4 cm petiole 2 to 3 cm ;. lateral nerves 12 to 15 pairs, slightly ascending (about 60°) not very distinct, very smooth in the interspaces. Fruiting calyx of a brilliant gray, the part which envelops the nut very round, with three long, usually unequal (5 to 8 cm) wings and 2 short and narrow (3 cm) reddish-yellow which are much reticulated and with about 10 nerves It seems that a narrow-leaved and a broad-leaved form of malaanonang are recognized by the natives, but they seem to be connected by intermediate forms and it is for that reason that the two are here classed as one species. Closely resembling S. coriacea Burck but with larger and more nearly glabrous fruit. Perhaps the same species which was deseribed a S. hypocra by Hance from Cochinchina, but usually with a smaller number of secondary nerves. LUZON, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 4279 Klemme, June 1906, in fruit: Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 13039 Paraiso: Province of Nueva Ecija, For. Bur. 8450, 8480 Curran, For. Bur. 22103 Alvarez: Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 12979, 12980 Alvarez, May 1910, in fruit: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 6023 Aguilar: Province of Rizal, Vidal 71, 2155, 2166, 2168, For. Bur. 2685 Ahern’s coll., Jan. 1905, in flower, For. Bur. 2990 Ahern’s coll., Apr.1905, in flower and fruit, Bur. Sci. 1420 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 3233 Hagger, Feb. 1905, in flower. The following numbers represent the narrow-leaved form and seem to fit Vidal’s description of S. polita: LUZON, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 11306 Klemme, Apr. 1908, with immature fruit: Province of Nueva Ecija, Vidal 989 (type): Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 5915 Curran: Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 436 Ahern’s coll., Feb. 1904, in flower, For. Bur. 1168 Ahern’s coll. June 1904, in flower, Loher 5599, Feb. 1906, in flower: Province of Tayabas, Merrill 2851 Clark & Barnes, Apr. 1903, in flower, Merrill 2589 Ware, June 1903, in fruit, For. Bur. 18648 Darling. Common names: malaanonan (Tag.), danlig (Tay.), loan puti (N. E.), mangasinoro (Tay.).
272 FOXWORTHY. 3. Shorea philippinensis Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 88. Petioles and inflorescence pubescent with stellate hairs. Leaves elliptic, underside pubescent with stellate hairs; leaf-blade 3 to 7 cm long; petioles up to 1 cm long; secondary nerves about 10 to 12, tertiary nerves inconspicuous. Bracts enclosing the buds subpersistent; anthers linear, long-aristate; appendage filiform, longer than anther. Ovary with base of style puberulous, style filiform glabrous exceeding the ovary; stigma minute. LUZON, Province of Bulacan, Vidal 983: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 717 Borden: Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 6068 Kobbe. TICAO, For. Bur. 12553 Rosenbluth. LEYTE, For. Bur. 12885 Rosenbluth. A very imperfectly known species. All of the material in our herbarium is sterile. The wood of some of the numbers credited to this very light-colored and soft, of some of the others it is red. It is very likely that some of the numbers are wrongly identified. 4. Shorea sp. aff. S. harmandii Pierre. A large tree, 30 m high and 75 cm in diameter. Wood white to brownish, soft; wood-parenchyma lines and lines of resin-canals inconspicuous or wanting. Vessels in more or less regular patterns. Wood resembling that of Pentacme in appearance. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, pallid above and beneath when dry, the very young leaves being darker in color; bluntly acuminate at apex, rounded or subcordate at base. Secondary nerves 12 to 15 pairs, tertiary nerves distinct and parallel. Leaf-blades 5 to 9 cm long, 3 ti 5 cm wide. Petioles short, 8 to 9 mm long, and pubescent. Stipular bracts enclosing the bud, triangular-ovate, rather large and semipresistent, with several longitudinal nerves. Stipules leaving a very distinct scar on falling. Twigs dark-colored, pubescent, with short internodes. Fruit ovoid, about 1 cm long and about the same diameter, enclosed by the bases of the calyx-lobes; the 3 long calyx-wings oblong-spatulate, 7 cm long, 16 mm wide, with 10 to 12 longitudinal and numerous cross veins, the 2 short calyx-wings 4 to 6 cm long and 5 to 6 mm wide, with only 5 or 6 longitudinal nerves. Fruit green when fresh, reddish-brown when dry. LUZON, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 17158 Curran, Mar. 1909, in fruit, For. Bur. 7084 Klemme: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 17652 Curran. Common names: stray (Cag.) danlig or white tiaong (Lag.), canacan (Neg.). 5. Shorea guiso (Blanco) Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 34; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas xv, t. 15, f. C; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 23; Brandis in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1895) 89; Merr. in Phil. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 98; Foxworthy in Phil. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 355, 357, 383, 384, 4 (1909) Bot. 419, 509, 517, pl. XXVII, f. 70; Everett & Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 5 (1906) 16; Merritt & Whitford in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 6 (1906) 36; Merritt in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 8 (1908) 48; Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 703, Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10^2 (1911) 71, pls. 74, 75.
274 FOXWORTHY. Occidental, For. Bur. 17446 Curran. MINDANAO, Province of Misamis, For. Bur. 6546 Hutchinson, For. Bur. 15473 Pray: District of Davao, For. Bur. 11553, 11558 Whitford: District of Cotabato, For. Bur. 15409 Pray: District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9005, 9485 Whitford & Hutchinson. BASILAN, For. Bur. 12368 Hutchinson. Ahern 840 Sherman, collected in Mindanao in 1901, was determined by Merrill (Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 1 (1903) 40) as S. scrobiculata. It should be referred to S. guiso. Much of our material is sterile and it shows quite a range of variation. The mature leaves are usually glabrous or nearly so; but some specimens show leaves that are sparsely hairy; and some show a development of stellate hairs on the petioles and young shoots and on the midrib on the upper surface of the leaf. It is quite probable that there will prove to be more than one species in the material listed above, when we have more complete material for study and comparison. Common names: guijo, betik (Lag.), guisoc (V., Moro), sarai (Il.), yamban (Il.). 6. Shorea sp. This form differs from S. guiso principally in having a dense pubescence of grayish color on the underside of the leaves and on the twigs. The pubescence is composed of large stellate hairs, such as are found on the leaves of S. eximia, S. squamata and S. philippinensis. The leaf-shape is very constantly that of S. guiso and the venation seems to be much the same. The wood may be slightly harder than that of guijo. LUZON, Province of Bataan, For. Bur. s. n. Meyer, For. Bur. 6373, 17520 Curran, Bur. Sci. 10845 Foxworthy: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 5899, 6933 Curran, For. Bur. 6506 Aguilar: Province of Pampanga, For. Bur. 17699 Curran: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 10076 Curran, For. Bur. 12679 Rosenbluth & Tamesis. 7. Shorea negrosensis sp. nov. Plate XLIV. Arbor magna, 40 ad 50 m alta, 2 m diametro. Folia elliptica, oblonga, vel ovata; lamina 9 ad 15 cm longa, 4 ad 6 em lata; petiolo 1.5 ad 2.5 cm longo. Nervis secondariis 12 ad 16. Stipulae parvae fugaceae. Paniculae terminales. Petala intus glabra, extus sericea. Stamina circiter 30; filamenta subtus lata et sursum fastigata. Ovarium conoideum pilosum. Stylopodium 0. Stylus glaber. Gregarious in habit. Bark thick, black and fissured. Wood deep-red at the heart, the heart taking up a large proportion of the log. Logs often rotten at the heart. Base of leaf rounded, apex sharply acuminate. Midrib depressed and tomentose above, prominent and pilose beneath, Secondary veins prominent on underside of leaf. Tertiary veins parallel or reticulate, distinct and with regularly spaced large stellate hairs. This gives the underside of the leaf an appearance much like that of almon (S. eximia), but with a lesser degree of hairiness. When dried, the leaves often have a coppery color on the under surface. Stipules small, triangular, nerved, hairy, fugacious. Flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx and petals with dense grayish or yellowish tomentum on the outside,