874 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 49 
toward the ends of the branchlets; midvein conspicuously 
raised beneath, yellowish brown tomentose in the young 
state, wearing glabrous, the 7 to 11 lateral ascendingly 
arched pairs also prominent beneath, reticulations fine and 
quite evident beneath; petiole glabrous, 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 
Inflorescence fascicled in the leaf axils of the young apical 
portion of the twigs, odorless; pedicels 1.25 cm. long, 
longitudinally ridged, fulvous pubescent, spreading, subtend- 
ed by small bracts; calyx similary pubescent, thick; 
segments or sepals only 4, imbrieate, ovately rounded, 4 
mm. both dimensions; corolla delicate, creamy white, 4.5 
mm. long, the thick tube 3 mm. long, glabrous; segments 
5, broad, truncate at apex; stamens 5; filaments inserted 
1 mm. írom the base, opposite the corolla lobes, nearly 
2 mm. long, glabrous; anther bilobed at the base and basifix- 
ed, 1.25 mm. long, ovoidly elliptic; staminodes inserted 
at the sinus, flat, notched at the apex; ovary dome-shaped, 
villous, bearing a glabrous columnar 2.5 mm. long style; 
fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12332, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes 
(Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, 
April, 1910. 
Discovered in moist shale rocky soil on a steep wooded 
incline, near the ridge summit at 1750 feet on the trail to 
Espafia. 
A near ralative of S. angustifolium Merr., but when the 
specimens are compared the larger, differently nerved and 
shaped leaves at once mark it distinct. 
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