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Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban (Mount Banajao), Elmer 9225, May 
1907, distributed as Saurauia luzoniensis Merr. 
A species similar to Saurauia gracilipes Merr. in many characters, but 
with longer, more slender setae, and the inner petals not conspicuously 
narrower than the outer ones. It is not at all closely allied to Saurauia 
luzoniensis Merr., but like S. gracilipes Merr., is readily recognizable by 
its solitary, rather long pedicelled, axillary flowers. 
SAURAUVIA FASCICULIFLORA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 5 m alta ramulis costa utrinque subtus ad nervis 
inflorescentiisque plus minusve adpresse setosis; foliis oblongis, 
coriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, acutis, basi subobtusis, supra 
brunneis, nitidis, nervis utrinque circiter 16; floribus fasciculatis, 
pedicellatis, caulinis et e ramis vetustioribus junioribusque; stylis 
5, basi longe unitis. 
A tree about 5 m high, the branches terete, brownish, glabrous, 
the branchlets rather densely appressed setose with pale or more 
usually ferruginous, stout, short setae, the setae 2 mm long or 
less. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 12 to 14 em long, 3.5 to 5 cm 
wide, acute, base subobtuse, margins setose-denticulate, the upper 
surface shining, rather dark-brown, glabrous except the ap- 
pressed-setose midrib, the lower surface paler, appressed setose 
on the midrib and lateral nerves, with few shorter setae on the 
reticulations ; lateral nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent; petioles densely appressed-setose, 1 to 2 cm long. 
Flowers pale-pink, fascicled, on the trunk as well as on the larger 
and smaller branches, none axillary, few to many in a fascicle, 
the pedicels 1.5 cm long or less, more or less appressed ferru- 
ginous-setose. Sepals ovate, coriaceous, sparingly appressed- 
setose, the outer two about 6 mm long, 4 mm wide, acute, the inner 
three somewhat larger, about 8 mm long and 6 mm wide, rounded, 
the innermost two glabrous or nearly so, thinner than the outer 
ones. Corolla about 2.5 cm in diameter, the lobes obovate, 
inequilaterally retuse, about 10 mm long, 7mm wide. Stamens 
20; filaments and anthers each about 2.5 mm long. Styles 5, 
the free portions about 4 mm long, united for the lower 2 mm. 
PALAWAN, Mount Capoas, Merrill 9508, on forested ridges and talus 
slopes, altitude about 800 meters, April 21, 1913. 
A species most closely allied to Saurauia negrosensis Elm., differing in 
its fascicled flowers which are for the most part borne on the trunk and 
larger branches, not in the leaf axils, its more numerous setae, and its 
styles united for the lower 2 mm, not free to the base. 
SAURAUIA GRACILIPES sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva ramulis subtus foliis ad costa nervis- 
que petioles pedicellis sepalisque plus minusve setosis; foliis 
