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Ateneo de Manila, locally known as bantiyano: District of Cotabato, For. 
Bur. 18784- Tarrosa, Miranda, & Rafael, For. Bur. 18289 Miranda, June, 
1912. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Sapium virgatum Hook. f. and to 
S. indicum Willd., differing from the former in its smaller fruits and 
differently shaped seeds. From the latter it differs in its ovoid, promi- 
nently acuminate, not depressed -globose fruits and in its smaller, differ- 
ently shaped, not at all keeled seeds. Dedicated to Father Francisco 
Sanchez of the Ateneo de Manila. 
SAUROPUS Blume. 
SAUROPUS ROBINSONII sp. nov. § Ceratogynum. 
Frutex erectus, glaber, 1 ad 1.5 m altus, ramis teretibus, 
ramulis plus minusve angulatis vel angustissime alatis; foliis 
altemis, oblongo-ovatis ad anguste ovatis, membranaceis vel 
chartaceis, usque ad 18 cm longis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis 
vel subacutis, breviter petiolatis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 8; floribus 
^ 3 ad 4.5 mm, $ 6 ad 8 mm diametro. 
An erect, monoecious, slightly branched, glabrous shrub 1 to 
1.5 m high, the stems naked, the leaves mostly at the top; 
branches terete, the branchlets more or less compressed, often 
narrowly winged, frequently somewhat zig-zag. Leaves oblong- 
ovate to narrowly ovate, membranaceous or chartaceous, 8 to 18 
cm long, 3 to 8 cm wide, olivaceous when dry, somewhat shining 
on both surfaces, the lower surface a little paler than the upper 
one, apex acuminate, base rounded or subacute; nerves 7 or 8 
on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, curved, anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations rather lax, distinct; petioles about 3 
mm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 5 mm long. Male 
flowers axillary, fascicled, few in each axil, their pedicels 4 to 9 
mm long. Calyx 3 to 4.5 mm in diameter, 6-lobed, the lobes 
broadly ovate, rounded, their appendages surrounding the an- 
thers, thick, erect, suborbicular, 0.5 mm long or less. Female 
flowers axillary, solitary, subpendulous, their pedicels 2 to 2.5 
cm long, thickened upward, in fruit elongated, and up to 6 
cm in length. Calyx dull-red, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, the lobes 
6, broadly ovate, obtuse or acute, imbricate, 3 to 3.5 mm long, 
persistent, somewhat accrescent in fruit and 5 to 6 mm long. 
Ovary 3-celled; cells with two ovules; stigma broad, flat, about 
3 mm in diameter, the branches stout, recurved, borne on the 
margin of the truncate top of the ovary. Fruit pink or red, 
somewhat fleshy, subglobose, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, ultimately 
dehiscent, S-celled, 6-seeded, 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, Elmer 6UU1 (type), June, 1904, 
6S08, May, 1904; Twin Peaks, Elmer 5907, March, 1904. Mindanao, 
Lake .Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 939, February, 1907. 
