JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY OF New PLANTS 322 
Saurauia sparsiflora n. sp.— ree, 6 m. high; branches 
widely spreading, forming an umbrella shaped crown, the 
bark gray. Leaves numerous, oblanceolate, the lower one half 
subentire, the upper. obscurely denticulate, glabrous on both 
sides except the scurfy midrib beneath, subcoriaceous, flat, 
darker green above, the 5 to 9 arching pairs of nerves brown 
and quite evident beneath, reticulations of the same color, 
very variable in size, apex obtusely rounded or acute, base 
cuneate, the normal ones 10 cm. long by 4 cm. wide above 
the middle; petioles 5 to 20 mm. long, sparsely covered with 
minute grayish white scales which also cover the leaf bearing 
portion of the twigs. Flowers chiefly in the axils of the 
leaves, solitary or occasionally 2 or 3-clustered, peduncles 
1 to 3 em. long, seurfy, slender, usually curved near the 
top; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long or nearly obsolete, subtend- 
ed by minute bracts; calyx glabrous, the 5 segments une- 
qual, the larger ones shorter than the petals; corolla 15 
mm. in diameter, also united at the base, the 5 segments 
oblong to elliptic with rounded apices, white; stamens many, 
inserted upon the corolla rim; filaments 2 mm. long, gla- 
brous; anthers light yellow, versatile, much curved, 2.5 mm. 
long, 1 mm. wide, ends bifid; ovary corrugated, glabrous, 
about 3 mm. long, thick and worm shaped, 3, nearly divided 
to the base, arising from the central cavity of the broad 
truncate apex of the ovary; stigma capitate, darker brown, 
smal; mature berry wrinkled, its seed reticulately faveolate. 
Type specimen, 8364, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. This Saurauia was discov- 
ered in oak woods of Mount Santo Tomas at 2250 meters 
and is the most. alpine species known in the Philippines. 
It could be confused with S. subglabra Merr., were it not 
for the more numerous and smaller leaves, and 3-celled 
ovaries. l 
THEACEAE. 
Adinandra coriacea n. sp.—Scandent or epiphytie and 
forming bushes in the limbs of large trees; branches gray, 
smooth, quite rigid, short but comparatively many branched. 
Leaves clustered or subverticillate at the end and the base 
of the two or three year old growths, alternate, easily de- 
