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Marca 27, 1915] Two Huxpred Twenty Six New SPzcixs—I 9 
dish brown hairs or scales, obscurely compressed or suban- 
gular and grooved along the upper side. Inflorescence axil- 
lary, subpendant, 7 to 13 cm long; peduncle usually solitary, 
few branched above the middle, subcompressed and fluted 
along its sides, densely covered with reddish brown scale- 
like hairs; branchlets relatively short and thick, similar in 
vestiture, subtended by foliaceous bracts, all pale green in 
the fresh state; flowers pendant, odorless, of short duration; 
pedicels avereging 1.5 cm long, densely covered with scaly 
hairs; calyx slightly united at the base, 1 cm long, nearly 
as wide across the basal portion, also very densely covered 
with scale-like hairs, subrufous, the outer pair coriaceous; the 
inner ones smooth except the outer exposed portion and more 
oblong than ovate to subelliptic, petaloid at least in texture, 
apex of outer sepals rounded, the inner ones subtruncate; 
petals of an equal number, free, obcuneate in shape, 1.5 
-— em long, 1 em wide toward the apex, glabrous, apex trunc- 
ately rounded and usually notched, forming 2 broad lobes 
or teeth; stamens numerous, their bases united into a ring 
and inserted upon the inner base of the corolla segments; 
filaments 3 mm long, subcompressed, fleshy, glabrate; anther 
nearly as long, oblong, ends truncate, introrse, laterally dehis- 
cent, dorsifixed, conspicuously bent below the middle; ovary 
conical, glabrous, 5 mm long and wide at the base; styles 
5, distinct, glabrous, rigid, 5 mm long, terminated by a 
minute capitate stigma; ovules very many. 
Type specimen number 13825, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912. 
Inhabiting wet earth in a small very humid open gulch 
at 5250 feet altitude or a little distance beyond lake Danao. 
To this plant the Manobo gave the name “Sampad.” 
Certainly not Saurauia latebracteata Choisy (Saurauia cum- 
ingiana De Vries) based upon Cuming’s number 944. Very 
near to number 445 of Father Vanoverberg from Bontoc, 
northern Luzon. : 
se 535 © Saurauia succulenta Elm. n. sp. 
A tree-like shrub; stem 2 dm thick, 7 m high, branch- 
