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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. II, Art. 24 
It is distinguished from S. obovata Merr. by its axillary 
inflorescence, differently shaped leaves, much longer bracts, 
and different perianths; from S. stipularis R. Br., its nearest 
ally, by its much less tomentose inflorescence and more 
numerous persistent bracts. 
DILLENIACEZE. 
SAURAUIA Willd. 
Saurauia avellana Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; wood soft, whitish, covered with 
gray and rather smooth bark; twigs sparse, quite rigid, the 
younger portions rugose and scurfy, hollow. Leaves  alter- 
nate or subopposite, rigid and heavy, flat, spreading, glabrous 
on the upper side or in the young state covered with a fine 
reddish brown tomentum, densely covered beneath with an 
avellaneus colored tomentum, exceedingly variable in size, oblong 
to subelliptie, the normal blades nearly 2. dm. long, 8 cm. 
wide across the middle or a trifle above it, the margins 
provided with callous serratures, apex rounded or obtuse, base 
also rounded; petiole 1 to 3 cm. long, stout, usually 
scaly; nerves pinnate, prominent beneath, 13 to 17 pairs, 
tips strongly arched, united or anastomosing, covered with 
an avellaneus colored tomentum, the stout midrib and the 
larger lateral nerves also provided with adpressed scales, 
the cross bars and reticulations prominent. Inflorescence 
axillary; peduncles strict, seurfy, 1 to 5 cm. long, sparingly 
branched from the middle or above the middle, usually few from 
the same leaf axil; pedicels scaly, 3 to 5 mm. long, strict, 
occasionally subumbellately clustered, subtended by scale like 
bracts; calyx similarly scaly upon the exposed outer sides, 
5 mm. long, the 5 segments barely united at the base, the 
inner or overlapping sides glabrous, oblong or ovate, obtuse 
at apex, unequal in size; corolla snow white, somewhat exceed- 
ing the calyx, united at the base, glabrous, oblong to broad- 
ly obovate, thin, early falling; stamens numerous, inserted 
upon the base of the corolla; filaments slender, glabrous, 1 
mm. long; anther 0.75 mm. long, elliptic but with truncate 
ends, dorsifixed; styles also glabrous, 3 mm. long, connate 
