Marc 27, 1915] Two ITuxnprep Twenty Six New Specrrs—I 2613 
fronting old clearings at 3000 feet altitude on the Tolon 
side of the mountain range extending from Apo toward Santa 
Cruz. Well known to the natives or Bagobos as ''Catmon" 
or *Calambog.”” What a sight this tree with a yard long 
leaves and yellow flowers. eight inches across would make 
in a botanieal garden! 
Distinguished from Reifferscheidia speciosa Presl in being 
entirely glabrous, leaves not ovate and instead of being shallow- 
ly dentate ours are serrate; the sepals are more elonga- 
ted, yellow petals broader and less tapering toward the base. 
It Saurauia copelandii Elm. n. sp. 
An erect 7 m high tree, with a 1.5 dm thick stem; 
branches widely spreading, the upper ones in subwhorls, thick, 
the glabrous twigs sparingly rebranched and ascendingly curv- 
ed; bark dark brown, peeling in thin scales, very soft, white, 
odorless and without taste. Leaves crowded terminally, co- 
riaceous, alternating, radially spreading, glabrous, flat, shining 
dark green on the upper side and turning nearly black while 
drying, much paler green and brown beneath when dry, un- 
equal in size but not in shape, the average measure 3 dm 
long and 1 dm wide above the middle, obovately oblong or 
subpandurate, entire toward the narrowing base, otherwise 
apiculately serrate, broadly obtuse or rounded at the apex; 
midrib stout and conspicuons beneath, provided with minute 
brown scales especially toward the base, flat and glabrous 
above; lateral nerves 12 to 17 pairs, divaricate at the base, 
much ascendingly curved otherwise, much less conspicuous, 
the cross bars very faint; petiole about 1 cm long, broad, 
furrowed along the upper side, usually scaly beneath. In- 
florescence axillary but occasionally along the branchlets; 
peduncles slender, solitary or 2 or 3-clustered and arising 
from short ligneous tubercles, glabrous, 5 to 8 cm long; 
flowers pendulous, subtended by elliptic 2 em long glabrous 
bracts, solitary or few clustered toward the end of the pe- 
duncle; calyx very rigid, cup shaped, green, glabrous, united 
at the base, 4, in 2 pairs, the outer thicker pair broadly 
ovate and 1.5 cm long, the 2 alternating inner ones elliptic 
and with thinner sides, finely veined; corolla campanulate, 
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