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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, 
refuse. 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 GLA3RI FOLIA 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, refuse. 
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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