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glabrous leaves, the llowers in axillary solitary cymes 3 to 4 c-ni. long, the 

 cells of the ovary and styles 3, rarely 4. Branches dark brown, nearly 

 glabrous except for few scattered scales. Leaves 15 to 20 cm. long, 7 to 

 8 cm. wide, very short acuminate, narrowed below to the acute or slightly 

 obtuse, somewhat inequilateral base, the margins spinulose-serrate, glabrous 

 on both surfaces except for few scattered scales on the nerves beneath, the 

 upper surface dark, the lower yellowish brown when dry, somewhat shiny; 

 nerves about 12 pairs, prominent beneath; petioles 2 to 3 cm. long, more or 

 less scaly. Cymes dichotomous, the peduncles, branches, pedicels, bracts, 

 and calyx lobes scurfy-scaly, the peduncles 1.5 to 2 cm. long; bracts broadly 

 ovate, nearly 1 cm. long, their margins spinulose-serrate. Flowers white. 

 Calyx lobes ovate, obtuse, 5 to mm. long, about 3.5 mm. wide. Petals 

 obovate, about 8 mm. long. Stamens 20. Ovary glabrous, 3, rarely 

 4 celled. Fruit subglobose, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter, the seeds many, irre- 

 gular, cuneate, nearly 1 mm. long. 



Type specimen: Mount Banahao, Province of Tayabas, Luzon (1006 

 Whitford), October, 1904. A small shrub growing in the forests on the 

 mountain slopes at an altitude of about 900 ni. above the sea. A species 

 related to the succeeding, but diflering in its much larger bracts, smaller 

 flowers, and 3, rarely 4 celled ovary. 



(6) S. subglabra Merrill, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree, 5 to 8 m. high, with oblong-ovate to oblong 

 obovate, almost entirely glabrous leaves, the flowers nearly 2 cm. in diam- 

 eter, in few flowered, axillary cymes 3 to 7 cm. long, the ovary-cells and 

 styles 5. Branches brown, lenticollate, with few stiflf scale like hairs 

 and somewhat ferruginous lepidote, or nearly glabrous. Leaves 13 to 23 

 cm. long, 5 to 10 cm. wide, glabrous on both surfaces except for very few 

 scattered appressed scales on the nerves beneath, the margins slightly 

 undulate to obscurely serrate, the teeth with small hard scale like tips, the 

 apex short acuminate or almost acute, the base somewhat obtuse or acute; 

 nerves about 17 pairs, prominent beneath; petioles 2 to 3.5 cm. long, more 

 or less brown lepidote and with few hard appressed scales. Inflorescence 

 axillary, from 1 to 4 peduncles, from the same axil, each peduncle 1 to 4 

 flowered, the peduncles and pedicels slender, ferruginous-pubescent; bracts 

 linear-oblong, 4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, pubescent. Flowers white, odorless. 

 Calyx 1.5 cm. in diameter, pubescent outside, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, 5 to 

 6 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, obtuse. Petals obovate. retuse, about 1 cm. 

 long, 8 mm. wide. Stamens many. Ovary glabrous, 5-celled; styles 5. 



Type specimen: Lamao River. Mount Mariveles. Province of Bataan, 

 Luzon (2767 Meyer), February, 1905; also from the same locality (268 

 Whitford), May, 1904. Apparently also belongs here, No. 6115 Elmer, 

 Sablan. Province of Benguet, Luzon, April, 1904. A small tree growing on 

 steep wooded slopes in canons at an altitude of from 800 to 900 m. above 

 the sea. 



Doubtful and excluded species include the following: Saurauia latwcolata 

 DC, a Javanese species credited to the Philippines by F.-\'iIlar.' who 



iNov. .App.. 19. 1880. 



