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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
Stamens 3 to 4 mm long. Carpels 3, narrowly ovoid, narrowed 
upward into the style, glabrous, including the style 4 mm long. 
Leyte, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 812, June 2, 1914, in forests, 
altitude about 50 meters, said by the collector to be a tree 15 m high with 
the trunk about 50 cm in diameter although the specimens look as though 
they were from a vine rather than from a tree. It is characterized by its 
rather numerously nerved, entire or nearly entire leaves, its ample pani- 
cles, and its glabrous carpels, three carpels in each flower. The leaves 
are glandular-puncticulate on the lower surface. 
SAURAUIA Willdenow 
SAURAUIA WENZELII sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 5 m altus, leviter adpresse setosus, partibus 
junioribus minute farinosus; foliis coriaceis, oblongo-obovatis 
vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 27 cm longis, subcaudato-acumi- 
natis, basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, nervis utrinque circiter 
17 ; inflorescentiis paniculatis, plus minusve foliaceis haud brac- 
teatis; floribus cymosis, confertis, circiter 1.5 cm diametro, 
ovario 3-locellato. 
An erect shrub about 5 m high, the branchlets, inflorescence, 
petioles, and to a slight degree the leaves with scattered, ap- 
pressed setae, the younger parts somewhat farinose, otherwise 
nearly glabrous. Leaves oblong-obovate, or oblong-elliptic, co- 
riaceous, somewhat olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower 
surface a little paler than the upper, the latter entirely glabrous 
except for few, appressed, scale-like setae on the midrib and 
nerves, the lower surface glabrous except for similar scales, 15 
to 27 cm long, 7 to 9 cm wide, rather slenderly subcaudate- 
acuminate, base somewhat narrowed, rounded, or slightly 
cordate, often a little inequilateral, the margins minutely setose- 
denticulate; lateral nerves about 17 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent; petioles stout, about 1.5 cm long, appressed-setose. 
Inflorescence a pseudo-terminal, somewhat leafy panicle from 
the upper axils, about 15 cm long, appressed-setose and somewhat 
farinose, composed of few, (about 5) alternate, long peduncled, 
many-flowered, rather congested cymes intermingled with more 
or less reduced leaves, the leaves on the main rachis up to 7 cm 
long, in the partial inflorescence taking the place of bracts and 
1 cm long or less. Flowers numerous, white, numerous in each 
partial inflorescence which is from 3 to 4 cm in diameter, the 
individual flowers in anthesis about 1.5 cm in diameter. Sepals 
orbicular-obovate, rounded, about 5 mm in diameter. Petals 
broadly obovate, about 6 mm in diameter, rounded, somewhat 
united below. Stamens about 20, 1-seriate ; filaments 2 mm long, 
the anthers a little shorter. Ovary depressed-ovoid, glabrous, 
