2014 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
also rigid, pure white, 2.5 cm long, united below the mid- 
dle or the basal one third, glabrous; the 5 lobes broadly 
spreading, obscurely lobed or widely notched, somewhat blistery 
in the middle region; stamens rather numerous, inserted upon 
the basal portion of the corolla; filaments 5 mm long, crook- 
ed and subcompressed, thick, dark reddish brown when dry, 
yellowish and fleshy when fresh, glabrate; anthers deeper 
yellow, equalling the filaments, truncately emarginate at the 
base, distinctly lobed at the apex, thick, crooked at the point 
of attachment in the middie of the back; ovary glabrous, 
conical, 5 mm across; styles 7.5 mm long, glabrous, the 
basal 2 mm united, divided into 4 slender usually curved 
arms, each terminated into a small globose stigma; ovules 
numerous, crowded into 4 dense masses; capsules 4-celled, 
subglobose; the numerous seeds attached to a thick green 
central placenta, partitions thin. 
Type specimen number 10555, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Discovered this unique species in rich soil of a humid 
wooded bench at 3500 feet of mount Calelan. Rare and is 
known to the Bagobos as ''Balingog." Dedicated to Dr. E. 
B. Copeland who during his first year or two in the Phil- 
ippine service has made a large collection in this same gen- 
eral region. 
y Saurauia erythrotbrica Elm. n. sp. 
Lax and suberect shrub; stem 5 cm thick, 3 to 4 m 
high, branched from below the middle; wood rather soft, 
sappy white, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth and yellow- 
ish gray, more yellow on the inner side; main branches few, 
spreading, laxly rebranched; twigs descending, slender, sub- 
terete or angularly ridged, the younger portion densely 
covered with reddish brown setose hairs, ultimately smooth 
or glabrous. Leaves alternating, scattered though usually 
somewhat crowded toward the distal end of the branchlets, 
mostly horizontal, submembranous, flat, the short abrupt 
acute to acuminate apex recurved, deep green and sparsely 
strigose on the upper side, much paler green beneath and 
hc reddish se base obtusely rounded or broadly 
