308 The Philippine Journal of Science 1913 
STERCULIACEAE 
FIRM I AN A Marsigli 
FIRM I AN A SIMPLEX (Linn.) W. F. Wight in U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PI. 
Ind. Bull. 142 (1909) 67. 
Hibiscus simplex Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 977. 
Sterculia platanifolia Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 423. 
Luzon, Pangasinan Province, Mount San Isidro, Labrador, Bur. Sci. 
2,9858 Fenix, November 6, 1917, in forests, altitude about 400 meters, 
locally known as bitnong. 
The specimen is in flower and presents immature leaves, which are 
glabrous and considerably smaller than are those on our Chinese material. 
The tree is manifestly deciduous, the new leaves appearing with the flowers. 
I can see no reason, in the absence of more complete material, and especially 
mature leaves and fruits, for distinguishing this Philippine form from this 
well-known Chinese and Japanese species. In floral characters it conforms 
very closely with material from southern China. 
DILLENIACEAE 
SAURAUIA Willdenow 
SAURAUIA OLIGOPHLEBIA sp. nov. 
Frutex, ramulis, petiolis, et pedicellis dense adpresse paleaceis ; 
foliis chartaceis, oblongis, usque ad 8 cm longis, supra brunneo- 
olivaceis, nitidis, ad costa nervisque breviter adpresse setosis, 
subtus pallidioribus, apice breviter acuminatis, basi acutis ad 
obtusis, margine denticulato-setosis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; 
floribus axillaribus, solitariis, breviter pedicellatis, ebracteatis, 
circiter 2 cm diametro, sepalis ovato-ellipticis, exterioribus acu- 
tis, dense subpatule setosis, interioribus subpetaloideis, obtusis; 
ovario glabro; stylis 3, liberis. 
A shrub about 1 m high, the branchlets, petioles, and pedicels 
rather densely appressed-paleaceous with oblong, obtuse to acu- 
minate, 0.5 to 1.2 mm long, thick scales, with similar ones on 
the midrib and nerves on both surfaces of the leaves. Leaves 
oblong, chartaceous, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the upper 
surface brownish-olivaceous, shining, the lower paler, here also 
with scales on the reticulations, the apex shortly acuminate, 
base acute to obtuse, margins denticulate-setose; lateral nerves 
5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the reticulations 
distinct; petioles 0.5 to 1 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
white, ebracteate, about 2 cm in diameter, their pedicels 5 to 8 
mm long. Sepals ovate-elliptic, about 8 mm long, the outer two 
densely setose on the back, acute, the inner three more or less 
petaloid, thinner, rounded, setose only on the exposed parts, the 
setae somewhat spreading, thick, lanceolate, acuminate, up to 
