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states that he saw specimens in Vidal's herbarium from Angat, Province 

 of Bulacan, Luzon. Vidal in his "Revision" mentions no specimens of 

 Saurauia from this locality. F.-Villar's identification was undoubtedly 

 erroneous and the species should be excluded. Saurauia ferox Korth., a 

 Malayan species extending from Sumatra to Borneo is questionably extended 

 to the Philippines by Stapf ^ No. 1712 Cuming, Samar, being referred 

 to the above species. Complete material is necessary to determine definitely 

 its occurrence in the Philippines. Saurauia reinwardtiana Blume, credited 

 to the Philippines by the author/ should be excluded for the present at 

 least, as the specimen referred to this species does not agree with sufficient 

 closeness to the description. However, the material is too imperfect 

 definitely to determine what the species may be. 



THEACE^. 



Thea montana (Blanco) Merrill, Govt. Lab. Publ. 27:21. 1905; Salceda 

 montana Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 2, 374. 1845; ed. 3, 2:327. 1878. 

 Camellia lanceolata F.-Vill. Nov. App. 19. 1880, non Seem. Pyre- 

 naria camellia; flora Vidal, Sinopsis, Atlas, t. 13. f. D. 1883, non 

 Kurz. Pyrenaria sp. Vidal, Eev. PI. Vase. Filip. 57. 1886. 

 A shrub or small tree 2 to 6 m. high, with oblong-ovate to broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrate leaves which are densely glandular punctate 

 beneath, and axillary, sessile white flowers about 1.5 cm. in diameter, the 

 stamens borne on the margin and interior of a well defined staminal tube, 

 few free. Branches light gray or brown, glabrous, the ultimate branches 

 sometimes with few scattered hairs. Leaves 6 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. 

 wide, alternate, subcoriaceous, minutely wrinkled-reticulate when drj', 

 glabrous except for few scattered hairs beneath, the base acute, the apex 

 short acuminate, the margins serrate except near the base; nerves 9 or 10 

 on each side of the midrib, spreading, anastomosing, not prominent, the 

 reticulations very lax; petioles glabrous or sparingly pilose, 5 to 10 mm. 

 long. Flowers fragrant. Sepals imbricate, the outer two small, bract like, 

 the inner three coriaceous, broadly ovate, 6 to 7 mm. long, their margins 

 minutely ciliate. Petals free, glabrous, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 1 cm. long. 

 Staminal tube cylindical, glabrous, 6 mm. long, the margin irregularly 

 dentate. Stamens numerous, mostly sessile or nearly so on and near the 

 margin of the tube, few Avith well developed filaments scattered on the 

 interior of the tube, and few, 3 to 5 (or more ?) , entirely free from the tube, 

 inserted at the base of the ovary. Ovary narrowly ovoid, densely hirsute, 

 3-celled, the ovules few in each cell, arranged in two axillary rows; styles 

 thick, united throughout, 2 mm. long; stigmas 3. Fruit subglobose or 

 somewhat compressed vertically, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter, woody. Seeds 

 mostly 2 in each cell, irregularly angularly compressed, 1 to 1.5 cm. in 

 diameter. 



This species is apparently common on the mountains of Luzon, and is 



^ Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4:134. 1894. 

 -Forest. Bureau Bull. 1:39. 1903. 



