DECEMBER 14, 1908] THREE Score or New PLANTS à 499 
at the base, terminal, bearing a small capitate stigma; ovary 
superior, glabrous, 3-celled, each cell many ovulate; ripe 
fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 10055, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 
1908. 
This splendid species was not uncommon in thicketed or 
lightly wooded ridges at 8000 feet. The color of the under 
side of the leaves is very characteristic and gives the shrub 
a neat appearance. 
Saurauia negrosensis Elm. n. sp. fs 
Shrub 3 to 5 m. high; wood white, covered with gray 
bark; young twigs rough with dirty colored scales. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, drying brown especially on the upper darker 
green glabrous side, nearly flat and subhorizontally spreading, 
oblanceolate to obovate, entire but with scattered spicules, 
apex acute, cuneate toward the base, an average blade 18 
cm. long by 6 cm. wide above the middle though quite 
variable in size, alternatingly scattered toward the twig ends; 
petiole 1.5 cm. long, dirty brown, scurfy; nerves rather con- 
spicuous beneath, ascending, the tips anastomosing and strongly 
curved, 9 to 13 lateral pairs, reticulatiens obscure and faint, 
the larger nerves provided with scattered scales. Flowers 1 
to 3-clustered from the leaf axils or from the axils of fal- 
len leaves; pedicels green, not exceeding the petioles, scale 
.covered, at the base usually subtended by minute scale like 
bracteoles; calyx whitish with pink tips, turning green with 
age, persistent, snbrotund or broadly elliptic, 5, the outer 
ones thicker and brown scaly on the back, the inner ones 
membranous and glabrous; corolla pure white, 5, united at _ 
the base, oblong to obovate in outline, the truncate apex  - 
obscurely and irregularly lobulate, glabrous; stamens about _ 
20, freely inserted between the base of the corolla and the 
ovary; filaments yellowish white, 2 mm. long, rigid, glabrous, — 
subcompressed, subequal; anther 2 mm. long, oblong, with | 
truncate ends, dorsifixed; pistils 3, glabrous, free or connate 
at the very base, 3 mm. long, persistent, bearing minute _ 
capitate ‘stigmas; fruit subglobose, glabrous, 3-celled, num- — 
