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midrib, prominent, curved-ascending, the reticulations slender; 

 petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, the younger ones densely cinnamo- 

 meous-pubescent, the older ones glabrous. Inflorescences axil- 

 lary, few-flowered, sometimes only 1-flowered, shorter than the 

 petioles, the bracts oblong, obtuse, 5 to 6 mm long. Petals about 

 10 mm in diameter, rounded, suborbicular, outside very densely 

 felted-pubescent. Petals broadly obovate about 14 mm long, 

 retuse. Ovary densely pubescent ; styles 4, glabrous, 8 mm long, 

 united for the lower 1.5 mm. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28735 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 12, 1917, on forested ridges. 



A most characteristic species, its indumentum similar to Saurauia 

 mindorensis Merr., but otherwise not at all closely allied to that species. 

 It is otherwise well characterized by being non-setose, the few scales 

 on the branchlets and petioles being closely appressed. 



SAURAUIA GLABRIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 3 m altus, glaber vel ramulis junioribus par- 

 cissime furfuraceis; foliis in siccitate viridis, nitidis, subcoria- 

 ceis, usque ad 18 cm longis, oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, acute 

 acuminatis, basi acutis, margine irregulariter glanduloso-serru- 

 latis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, utrinque prominentibus, obscure 

 anastomosantibus, reticulis laxis, obscuris; floribus axillaribus, 

 solitariis vel depauperato-fasciculatis, longe pedicellatis, circiter 

 13 mm diametro, sepalis margine leviter ciliatis exceptis glabris ; 

 ovario glabro; stylis 3, liberis. 



A shrub about 3 m high, the younger branchlets usually with 

 few, scattered, closely appressed, rather prominent ovate or 

 orbicular scales less than 1 mm in diameter, otherwise entirely 

 glabrous except the ciliate margins of the sepals. Branches 

 reddish-brown, terete, smooth, the branchlets of the same color, 

 somewhat angular when dry. Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, 

 greenish when dry, shining, oblong to oblong-obovate, 13 to 18 

 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, the apex prominently and sharply 

 acuminate, the base acute, the margins irregularly glandular- 

 denticulate; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, 

 curved, rather prominent on both surfaces, obscurely anastomos- 

 ing, the reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles 1 to 2 cm long. 

 Flowers white, axillary, solitary or in depauperate fascicles of 

 two or three flowers each, their pedicels slender, up to 1.5 cm 

 in length. Sepals 5, equal, elliptic, rounded, 6 mm long, their 

 margins ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Petals 5, oblong-obovate, 

 about 7 mm long, the apex prominently inequilateral, retuse. 

 Stamens about 20, their anthers about 2 mm long. Ovary glo- 

 bose, glabrous ; styles 3, free to the base, about 5 mm long. 



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