1492 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 75 
truncate at the apex or merely apiculate; corolla whitish, inserted 
upon the calyx, nearly 1 em. long, soft pubescent on the outside, 
villose in the tube, the apical one third lobed, the tube ultimately 
. split down one side nearly to the base; lobes 5, about 3 mm. long, 
splitting truncately, oblong, the middle portion hairy on the back 
and apiculately exerted at the apex; the much thinner sides gla- 
brous, folded upon the upper side in the dry state, more or less 
irregular and at the base even projected into a point or more; 
ovary imbedded, with 2 erect ovules; style fleshy, sparsely strigose 
toward the base, otherwise glabrous, terete, curved outwardly 
through the slit, not exceeding the corolla, terminated by a 
sparsely ciliate short lobed stigma; stamens 5, glabrous, strongly 
recurved through the corolla slit; filaments slightly thickened 
at the base, very slender, 4 mm. long; anther 1 mm. long, clav- 
ate, laterally dehiscent; fruit ellipsoid or barrel shaped, hairy, 
5 mm. long, truncate at apex, pointed at base, purplish black. 
Type specimen 121352, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Discovered in sand gravelly soil of the Pauala river flat at 
750 feet altitude. Named after Mr. E. D. Merrill who has al- 
ready described a few new species in this genus. 
Distinct from S. micrantha Presl and S. pedunculata mollis 
Merr. 
DILLENIACEAE. 
Saurauia sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A laxly spreading shrub; stem 7.5 cm. thick, branched 
from near the middle, 3 to 4 m. high, its branches repeatedly re- 
branched; wood sappy white, odorless and tasteless, with a large 
greenish pith; bark smooth, yellowish gray; twigs green, subgla- 
brous, minutely lenticelled. Leaves subcoriaceous, much lighter 
green beneath, mostly horizontally spreading, flat or only shallow- 
ly folded on the upper side especially toward the recurved abruptly 
and sharply acute apex, the broadly rounded basal portion nearly 
= entire, otherwise the margins serrately pointed, unequal in size, 
. alternatingly scattered along the twigs, glabrous, curing very 
. unequally brown on the 2 sides, the normal blades 2 dm. long and 
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