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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
Flowers white, axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, solitary 
or in reduced, few-flowered cymes, their pedicels slender, ap- 
pressed-setose, 1 to 1.8 cm long, when cymose not more than 
three flowers in a cyme, the peduncles about as long as the 
pedicels, the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about 7 mm long. 
Outer three sepals ovate, about 9 mm long, 6 mm wide, uniformly 
densely setose with spreading, rather slender, brown setae, the 
inner two sepals narrowly oblong, 9 mm long, 4 mm wide, thin- 
ner than the outer, glabrous except for the exposed median 
part near the base which is sparingly setose. Ovary glabrous ; 
styles 3 or 4, free to the base, 4 to 5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Bulusan Volcano, Bur. Sci., 23681 Ramos, 
September 5, 1915, in the mossy forest. 
This species is allied to Saurauia gracilipes Merr. and to S. elmeri 
Merr., the group having the two inner sepals much narrower than the 
outer three and nearly glabrous, the flowers mostly solitary, and long 
pedicelled. It differs from both in its much stouter, very much more 
prominent setae. 
SAURAUIA OLIGANTH A sp. nov. 
Frutex, partibus junioribus parcissime breviter adpresse 
furf uraceo-setosis ; foliis oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, 
usque ad 10 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5; 
floribus axillaribus, pedicellatis, vel in cymis bifloris, sepalis 
circiter 4 mm longis, parcissime adpresse setosis; stylis 3, 
liberis, circiter 3 mm longis. 
A shrub, the young branchlets densely covered with short, 
closely appressed, scalelike setae, otherwise nearly glabrous. 
Branches terete, brownish. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic 
to oblong-obovate, 6 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, obscurely 
acuminate or merely acute, base obtuse to rounded, the margins 
distantly and shortly setose-toothed, the upper surface brownish- 
olivaceous when dry, with very few, widely scattered, small 
scales, the lower surface much paler, with few scattered scales 
on the midrib and nerves; lateral nerves about 5 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent, curved, anastamosing. Flowers white, 
axillary, solitary or in 2-flowered cymes, the pedicels 1 cm long 
or less, the peduncles, when present, as long as the pedicels, 
both sparingly brown furfuraceous-setose. Outer three sepals 
broadly ovate to suborbicular, rounded, about 4 mm long, with 
few short, appressed scales, the inner two similar but thinner. 
Petals 5, oblong-obovate, retuse, about 6 mm long. Ovary 
glabrous ; styles 3, free to the base, about 3 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Bagacaua, Bur. Sci. 23^26 Ramos, 
August 20, 1915, in the mossy forest. 
