321 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. ART. 16 
cave inner edge which is brown ciliate, the inside of the 
pod otherwise glabrous. 
Type specimen 9424, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
DILLENIACEAE. 
Saurauia merrillii n. sp.—Shrubs 3 m. high; branches 
lax, soon becoming glabrous brown. Leaves membranous, 
oblanceolate, very variable in size, the average ones 15 cm. 
long and 4 em. wide, flat, membranous, with recurved acuminate 
tips, the base cuneate, much lighter greer beneath, with brown 
ciliate adpressed hairs, the 9 to 13 pairs of ascendingly arched 
nerves quite conspicuous and more densely pubesent beneath; 
petiole varying from 5 to 25 mm. long, it as well as the 
leaf bearing branchlets bristly brown pubescent. Inflorescence 
pendulous, immediately beneath the leaves or from the lower 
leaf axils, upon slender 3 to 5 cm. long peduncles covered 
with a brown pubescence; panicles short but with slender 
pedicels, about 6-flowered, frequently with very fine much 
shorter sterile pedicels or bracts bristly covered with crisp 
brown hairs; calyx 5 mm. long, oblong or strap like; the 
5 segments united at the base, persistent, the dorsal middle 
portion bearing 3 mm. long crinked ciliate hairs; corolla 
united at the very base, deciduous and falling intact, delicate, 
white, 7 mm. long, oblong to obovate, rounded at apex or 
subtruncate; stamens about 18, inserted upon the base of the 
corolla rim and falling with it; filameuts 2.5 mm. long, 
rather thick, brown when dry; anthers versatile, with a 
conspicuous bend at the point of attachment. introrse, 2 
mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, ends truncate or obscurely bifid, 
light yellow; ovary glabrous, conical, apparently bristly hairy 
on the inside, 3-celled, each cell with a pendulous cluster of 
numerous seeds; styles also glabrous, 3 mm. long, split nearly 
to the base into 3 arms: stigmas small, capitate. 
Type specimen 7350, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. In dry soil -of woodlands 
at 250 meters. It is intermediate between S. luzonensis Merr. 
and S. clementis Merr. but distinct from either. Named after 
Mr. E. D. Merrill. 
