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Flowers white, axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, solitary 

 or in reduced, few-flowered cymes, their pedicels slender, ap- 

 pressed-setose, 1 to 1.8 cm long, when cymose not more than 

 three flowers in a cyme, the peduncles about as long as the 

 pedicels, the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about 7 mm long. 

 Outer three sepals ovate, about 9 mm long, 6 mm wide, uniformly 

 densely setose with spreading, rather slender, brown setae, the 

 inner two sepals narrowly oblong, 9 mm long, 4 mm wide, thin- 

 ner than the outer, glabrous except for the exposed median 

 part near the base which is sparingly setose. Ovary glabrous ; 

 styles 3 or 4, free to the base, 4 to 5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Bulusan Volcano, Bur. Sci., 23681 Ramos, 

 September 5, 1915, in the mossy forest. 



This species is allied to Saurauia gracilipes Merr. and to S. elmeri 

 Merr., the group having the two inner sepals much narrower than the 

 outer three and nearly glabrous, the flowers mostly solitary, and long 

 pedicelled. It differs from both in its much stouter, very much more 

 prominent setae. 



SAURAUIA OLIGANTHA sp. nov. 



Frutex, partibus junioribus parcissime breviter adpresse 

 f urfuraceo-setosis ; foliis oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, 

 usque ad 10 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5; 

 floribus axillaribus, pedicellatis, vel in cymis bifloris, sepalis 

 circiter 4 mm longis, parcissime adpresse setosis; stylis 3, 

 liberis, circiter 3 mm longis. 



A shrub, the young branchlets densely covered with short, 

 closely appressed, scalelike setae, otherwise nearly glabrous. 

 Branches terete, brownish. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic 

 to oblong-obovate, 6 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, obscurely 

 acuminate or merely acute, base obtuse to rounded, the margins 

 distantly and shortly setose-toothed, the upper surface brownish- 

 olivaceous when dry, with very few, widely scattered, small 

 scales, the lower surface much paler, with few scattered scales 

 on the midrib and nerves; lateral nerves about 5 on each side 

 of the midrib, prominent, curved, anastamosing. Flowers white, 

 axillary, solitary or in 2-flowered cymes, the pedicels 1 cm long 

 or less, the peduncles, when present, as long as the pedicels, 

 both sparingly brown furfuraceous-setose. Outer three sepals 

 broadly ovate to suborbicular, rounded, about 4 mm long, with 

 few short, appressed scales, the inner two similar but thinner. 

 Petals 5, oblong-obovate, retuse, about 6 mm long. Ovary 

 glabrous ; styles 3, free to the base, about 3 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Bagacaua, Bur. Sci. 23426 Ramos, 

 August 20, 1915, in the mossy forest. 



