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Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 8 mm long, 3 mm 
wide, very slightly pubescent externally, the margins densely 
puberulent, glabrous inside. Petals as long as the sepals, about 4 
mm wide, scarcely narrowed below, strongly ventricose, exter- 
nally very slightly pubescent, inside very densely villous, the 
apical 1.5 mm irregularly divided into 3 to 5 unequal teeth or 
short lobes. Stamens about 18; filaments 1.5 to 2 mm long, 
glabrous or nearly so ; anthers linear-oblong, 4 mm long including 
the slender, 1 mm long, apical spur on one cell. Torus glands 8, 
pubescent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 4-celled; style glabrous, 6 
mm long. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 212, June 29, 1913, in forests. 
A species manifestly very closely allied to Elaeocarpus multifiorus 
(Turcz.) F.-Vill., but differing in so many small characters that it has 
been considered best to describe it as new. The most prominent distin- 
guishing characters are its less pubescent and broader petals and sepals. 
STERCULIACEAE 
STERCULIA Linnaeus 
STERCULIA DIVARiCATA sp. nov. (§ Eusterculia.) 
Frutex circiter 3 m altus, omnibus partibus plus minusve 
rubiginoso-stellato-villosus ; foliis oblongis ad anguste oblong- 
obovatis, simplicibus, usque ad 15 cm longis, acuminatis, integris, 
basi leviter angustatis, anguste rotundato-cordatulis ; stipulis 
numerosis, lineari-lanceolatis, persistentibus, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis; 
inflorescentiis circiter 20 cm longis, paucifloris, divaricato-ramo- 
sis; floribus 1 cm longis, lobis liberis; floribus ^ 1.6 cm longis, 
lobis leviter cohaerentibus. 
A shrub about 3 m high, all or most parts more or less stellate- 
villous with reddish-brown hairs. Branches terete, grayish- 
brown slender, glabrous, the ultimate ones about 3 mm in 
diameter, the branchlets more or less stellate-villous, the inter- 
nodes elongated, the leaves more or less crowded in distant false 
verticils. Leaves firmly chartaceous, oblong to narrowly oblong- 
obovate, 10 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, entire, simple, the 
apex prominently and sharply acuminate, the base gradually 
narrowed and rather abruptly rounded, slightly cordate, the upper 
surface shining, rather pale when dry, ultimately quite glabrous 
except for the somewhat stellate-pubescent midrib, the lower sur- 
face distinctly stellate-pubescent with scattered, reddish-brown 
or ferruginous hairs on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations; 
lateral nerves about 13 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the 
reticulations very distinct ; petioles densely stellate-villous, 1 to 1.5 
