Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Seecies—1 2619 
on the exposed dorsal side, the middle region coriaceous, 
marginal portion membranous and very finely ciliate, the 
inner 3 to 4 broader and relatively longer, subpetaloid espe- 
cially the marginal region, imbricately folded upon the 
ventral surface, entirely glabrous; corolla pure white, gla- 
brous, 1 cm long or longer, 7 mm wide above the middle, 
the basal portion connate and forming a short broad tube, 
the broad apical margin irregularly rugose or lobulate, ob- 
scurely obcuneate; stamens many, inserted upon the basal 
portion of the corolla and falling with it; filaments 3.5 mm 
long, flattened, linear, glabrate; anthers nearly as long, 
oblong, lobed at the apex, base truncate, attached on the 
back below the middle, dorsally curved, introrse and later- 
ally dehiscent; ovary flat, cone shaped, glabrate or when 
young puberulent, 5-celled; styles 6 mm long, slender, gla- 
brous except the basal 1.5 cm long united portion, 5, ter- 
minated by capitate stigmas. Berries 1.25 cm in diameter, 
5-rugose, whitish green, compressed globose; seeds very numer- 
ous, brown, usually triangular in shape, 1 mm long, coarse- 
ly pitted, imbedded in clear viscid juice. 
Type specimen number 13408, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 
1912. 
Discovered this large leafed and succulent Saurauia in 
loose gravelly wet ground near a streamlet winding its 
way down over sandstones in a cool and solidly shad- 
ed gulch at about 500 feet altitude.  "Migadon" in 
Manobo. 
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Saurauia urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Suberect tree or shrubby; stem crooked and irregularly 
round, 2 dm thick, 7 m high at least, branched from be- 
low the middle; main branches widely spreading, repeatedly 
rebranched, horizontal or descending; wood soft and pulpy, 
very white, quite without odor or taste; bark cinnamon 
brown, scaling in granular plates; twigs very slender, crooked, 
tips ascendingly curved, the green young portion brown when 
dry and. spinescently scaly. Leaves leathery. flat, mostly 
horizontal, dark green above and well sprinkled with spines- 
