1036 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. III, Arr. 54 
Leaves subwhorled, subchartaceous or submembranous, lucid 
green above, paler beneath, drying brown, diverse in size, 
oblong, entire, acuminately pointed, the larger blades 15 cm. 
long, nearly 5 cm. wide across the middle; base cuneate; nerves 
prominent beneath, the 5 to 7 lateral pairs ascending, cross bars 
quite evident, all more or less covered with short yellowish brown 
hairs; stipule 5 to 7.5 mm. long, spinescently dissected, pu- 
berulous toward the base, early falling; petiole 5 to 10 mm. 
long, also puberulous along the lower side. Peduncle usually 
solitary, glabrous, ascendingly recurved, axillary or from the 
fallen leaf axils, rarely with 3 peduncles from near the base, 
subtended by small stipular-like bracts, 3 em. long, umbel- 
lately branched at the top; bracteoles subtending the green 
pedicels and umbels membranous laciniate and brown pu- 
bescent; pedicel 4 mm. long, glabrous; calyx subcampanulate, 
5 mm. long, usually 5-dentate, also glabrous, nearly as broad 
across the top, thick, whitish and with a purplish base; corolla 
light creamy white, much softer in texture, glabrous except 
the villous throat, the broad tube 4.5 mm. long; segments 
4, ovately oblong, obtuse at apex, thick, 3 mm. long, valvate, 
tips inflexed, with conspicuous inlaid margins more or less ir- 
regularly cut; stamens 4, inserted upon the throat, alternating 
with the segments; filaments very short, glabrous; anthers linear, 
2 mm. long, inserted on the back toward the base; style as 
long as the corolla, glabrous toward the base, otherwise pu- 
bescent; stigma 2-lobed. 
Type specimen 9222, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
A fetish shrub in well drained soil of light woods at 2500 
feet skirting the base of mount Banahao. 
Resembling S. ternatum Hook. but leaves scarcely more 
than one half as large, bracts laciniately cut, flowers also 
larger and inflorescence always subumbellately branched from 
above the middle. 
AMARACARPUS Blm. 
Amaracarpus microphylla Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. 
Bib IV; ZEE. 
This fine species has not previously been reported from 
