IX, C, 6 
Merrill: Dilleniaceae Novae 
527 
Leaves chartaceous, pale when dry, slightly shining, oblong- 
obovate, 12 to 25 cm long, 5 to 11 cm wide, the upper surface 
with widely scattered, closely appressed setae 1 mm long or less, 
the lower surface prominently setose on the midrib and lateral 
nerves with longer setae, with scattered shorter ones on the 
secondary nerves and reticulations, apex slenderly acuminate, 
base somewhat narrowed, somewhat rounded, the margins setose- 
serrulate; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, the reticulations prominent, the primary ones sub- 
parallel; petioles 1 to 2 cm long, densely setose. Flowers ap- 
parently white, axillary and lateral from the branchlets below 
the leaves, solitary or in very few-flowered fascicles, the pedi- 
cels densely setose, up to 1.5 cm long. Outer three sepals ovate 
to oblong-ovate, obtuse, about 1 cm long, densely setose with 
more or less spreading, slender, 2 to 4 mm long setae, the inner 
two subpetaloid, somewhat narrower than the outer ones, with 
very broad, thin, glabrous margins, setose only along the median 
line in the lower part. Ovary glabrous, ovoid; styles 3, about 
4 mm long, free to the base. Seeds brown, oblong-obovoid, 
subtruncate, about 1 mm long. 
Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 152^0 Ramos (type), August, 1911; Jaro, 
Wenzel 7J+8, May 27, 1914, in forests, altitude about 500 meters. 
The species is well characterized by its peduncled, solitary or subsolitary 
flowers, the pedicels and calyx densely setose, the bracts none or small and 
early decidupus. Wenzel’s specimen was, with doubt, referred to Saurauia 
ferox Korth., which the present species resembles in leaf characters, but 
which has an entirely different inflorescence. 
SAURAUIA PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 7 m alta foliis subtus dense cinnamomeo-pubes- 
centibus, oblongis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, crasse coriaceis, 
usque ad 13 cm longis, utrinque acutis, nervis utrinque 14 ad 20, 
prominentibus, reticulis subtus obsoletis, supra impressis; flor- 
ibus solitariis, axillaribus, pedicellatis, bracteatis, bracetolis 
anguste lanceolatis ; stylis 4, liberis. 
A tree about 7 m high, the younger parts and the lower sur- 
face of the leaves densely cinnamomeous-pubescent with very 
short indistinct hairs. Branches terete, grayish, wrinkled, the 
younger ones brownish. Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong to 
oblong-oblanceolate, 6 to 13 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, acute at 
both ends, the margins distinctly serrulate, the upper surface 
quite glabrous, dark-olivaceous, somewhat shining ; lateral nerves 
14 to 20 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the reticulations 
on the lower surface entirely obscured by the indumentum, on 
the upper surface faint, impressed; petioles 5 to 15 mm long, 
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