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rete, rugose when dry, the ultimate ones about 5 mm in diameter, 

 the very tips of the branchlets sparingly ferruginous-pubescent. 

 Leaves subcorjaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 8 to 22 cm long, 

 4 to 10 cm wide, entire, the apex shortly blunt-acuminate, the 

 base broadly and abruptly rounded and rather deeply cordate; 

 lateral nerves 8 to 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 

 obscurely anastomosing, sparingly bearded on the axils on the 

 lower surface ; petioles 4 to 7 cm long. Staminate inflorescences 

 axillary, solitary, narrowly paniculate, about 12 cm long, the 

 branches few, the lower ones 2 cm long or less, 2- or 3-flowered, 

 the upper ones small and 1-flowered, the pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm long, 

 slender. Staminate flowers 4-merous, the buds ovoid, about 7 

 to 8 mm long, the calyx glabrous externally except at the edges 

 of the valvate lobes, the lobes broad, acute, irregular, apparently 

 free at maturity, inside densely villous. Anthers many in a glo- 

 bose head. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Hegapit River, Bur. Sci. 3^517 

 Ramos & Pascasio, April 23, 1919, in forests at low altitudes. 



A very characteristic species, not closely related to any other 

 one known to me, readily distinguished by its being nearly gla- 

 brous and by its oblong to oblong-elliptic, glabrous leaves which 

 are broadly rounded and rather deeply cordate at the base. 



DILLENIACEAE 



SAURAUIA Willdenow 

 SAURAUIA MINDORENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbuscula, circiter 3 m alta ; f oliis oblanceolato-ellipticis, char- 

 taceis, circiter 25 cm longis, apice breviter abrupteque acumina- 

 tis, basi angustatis, acutis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus pallide 

 tomentosis nitidisque, nervis utrinque circiter 22; cymis axilla- 

 ribus, brevibus, paucifloris, floribus circiter 2 cm diametro, caly- 

 cis lobis setis patulis 2.5 ad 4.5 mm longis; obtectis. 



A shrub, about 3 m high. Branches slender, glabrous, except 

 for few scattered, appressed scales, the branchlets with numerous, 

 appressed, acicular, 2 to 6 mm long scales. Leaves oblanceolate- 

 elliptic, chartaceous, 20 to 24 cm long, about 8 cm wide, the 

 upper surface dark-colored when dry, glabrous and somewhat 

 shining, the lower surface densely pale ferruginous-tomentose, 

 almost flesh-colored, the apex shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 the acumen apiculate, the leaf gradually narrowed in the lower 

 half to the acute base, the margins prominently apiculate- 

 dentate ; nerves about 22 on each side of the midrib distinct be- 

 neath, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obscure ; petioles 



