528 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
STERCULIA YATESI sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; sti- 
pulis numerosis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, circiter 5 mm longis; 
foliis chartaceis oblanceolatis, utrinque angustatis, 20 ad 30 
cm longis, brevissime petiolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque 15 ad 20, perspicuis; paniculis angustis, 15 ad 25 cm 
longis, in ramis defoliatis dispositis, bracteis numerosis stipuli- 
formibus lanceolatis acuminatis 1.2 ad 2 cm longis subtensis; 
floribus circiter 17 mm longis, tenuiter pedicellatis, tubo cylin- 
draceo, lobis curvatis, vix coherentibus, circiter 8 mm longis; 
fructibus anguste oblongis, basi angustatis, extus dense ferru- 
gineo-puberulis, acutis, circiter 9 cm longis; seminibus circiter 6. 
A shrub or small tree, 2 to 5 m high, glabrous or nearly so 
except the somewhat pubescent inflorescences, the branches te- 
rete, 4 to 7 mm in diameter, the tips of the branchlets usually 
glabrous and supplied with a crown of short, lanceolate, coria- 
ceous, acuminate, stipulelike bracts, about 5 mm long. Leaves 
chartaceous, oblanceolate, slenderly and sharply acuminate, nar- 
rowed at both ends, the base 5 mm wide or less, obtuse, 20 to 
30 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, brownish or olivaceous, shining, 
entirely glabrous on both surfaces or the upper surface slightly 
pubescent on the midrib; lateral nerves 15 to 20 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent, curved, anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions distinct; petioles glabrous or when young somewhat pubes- 
cent, 3to5 mm long. Specialized leafless branchlets bearing the 
inflorescences 8 to 15 cm long, up to 4 mm in diameter, glabrous, 
bearing at the apex a crown of rather rigid, narrowly lanceolate, 
glabrous, acuminate, brownish bracts about 1.2 to 2 cm long 
which subtend one to several narrow panicles, 15 to 25 cm 
in length, the panicles somewhat castaneous-pubescent, their 
branches divaricately spreading, distant, few-flowered, 2.5 cm 
long or less. Flowers purplish, about 17 mm long, their pedicels 
slender, 5 to 18 mm long. Calyx tube cylindric, the base cune- 
ate, externally somewhat pubescent, the lobes curved, arched, 
not at all cohering or if so only in young bud, oblong-lanceolate, 
hirsute inside, about 8 mm long. Androphore glabrous, 3 mm 
long, the anthers 10, crowded in a globose head about 1.5 mm 
in diameter. Fruit narrowly oblong, somewhat compressed, 
usually solitary, the base narrowed into a stipe, dark red when 
fresh, externally densely ferruginous-puberulent, inside gla- 
brous, apex acute, about 9 cm long and 2 cm wide. Seeds about 
6, somewhat ellipsoid, about 1 cm long. 
