PLANTAE COLOMBIANAE XVI 
SAURAUIAE PROVINCIAE PUTUMAYONIS SPECIES NOVA 
BY 
RicHarp Evans SCHULTES 
SELDOM in a large genus such as the dilleniaceous Saur- 
auia does a new species appear with a distinguishing 
character so sharp as that in the following hitherto un- 
described concept. 
Saurauia Alvaroi R. E. Schultes sp. nov. 
Arbor aliquid robusta, usque ad quadraginta pedes 
alta. Rami fusci, lepidoti, squamis minutissimis, albis 
suberystallinisque. Ramuli similes. Foliorum lamina 
petiolata, valde coriacea, obovata, apice acuminata, basi 
cuneata, minute et irregulariter (apicem versus praeci- 
pue) serrulata, supra vivo atroviridis et glabra, infra (in 
nervis densiore) minutissime stellato-pilosa, nervi cen- 
tralis partem basalem versus laciniis duabus vexilliformi- 
bus ad perpendiculum directis 6.5 em. longis, usque ad 
1.2 cm. altis extremis ambis cohaesis ex lamina prorump- 
entibus atque septum canaliculatum formantibus, usque 
ad 35 cm. longa, 16 cm. lata; nervis plusminusve duo- 
deviginti, subparallelis; petiolus robustus, 3-5 cm. lon- 
gus, 5mm. in diametro. Inflorescentiae multiflorae, foliis 
breviores, usque ad 25 cm. longae; pedunculis aureo- 
fuscis, lepidotis; bracteis siccis, subulatis, setosis, usque 
ad 5 mm. longis. Flores subsessiles, aromatico-fragrantes, 
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