on upper half, glabrous on lower half within, marginally 
and apically ciliolate to ciliate; petals 5, white, oblong 
to oblong-obovate, 9-11 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, sta- 
mens 100-200, filament 3.5-4.5 mm. long, anther 1.5 
mm. long; ovary 5-locular, globose, 5-suleate, glabrous, 
styles 5, 1 mm. long, stigmas simple. Berries not known. 
Distribution: Keuador (Provincia Esmeraldas), river 
bank, alt. 95 m., flowering in December. 
Specimens evamined. Ecuador, Esmeraldas; Parroquia 
de Concepcion, below Playa Rica, Meawia 8488 (F, NY, 
S, U, UC, US-holotype). 
4° Saurauia chaparensis Socjarto sp. nov. 
Species foliis subtus abundanter stellatis, inflorescentiis 
laxis, floribus circiter 15 mm. latis, staminibus plus quam 
100.—Holotypus: Stembach 8920 (GH). 
Shrubs?/: copiously pubescent. Branchlets moderately 
stout, terete, prominently scarred, abundantly strigose 
often with barbulate trichomes to glabrescent. Leaves 
crowded near tip of branchlets ; blades obovate to oblong- 
obovate, blunt to very shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate 
at base, rarely oblique, serrulate with very fine serrula- 
tions along margins, 10-18 em. long, 3-6 cm. wide, 
chartaceous, in dry state sooty above, olive-brown be- 
neath, distinctly scabrous above and beneath, secondary 
veins 18-22 pairs, tertiary veins elevated, more promi- 
nent than lesser venation, sparingly clustered and strigil- 
lose along and between veins with pustulate epidermis 
above, abundantly stellate to rarely tufted along and be- 
tween veins (often mixed with barbulate trichomes along 
major veins) beneath, villous-barbate at axils of second- 
ary veins beneath; petioles 2-8 em. long, 1.5—-2 mm. in 
diameter, terete to half-terete, abundantly tuberculate 
to strigillose with often barbulate trichomes, scabrous. 
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