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MERRILL. 
densely lepidote-stellate, about 6 mm. long, the apex truncate and ob- 
scurely 3-toothed. Stamens indefinite, free, the filaments 1.5 mm. long 
or less, anthers about 0.3 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, densely hirsute, 
2-celled, each cell many ovuled. Capsules flattened at right angles to 
the dissepiment, suborbicular in outline, truncate and apiculate at the 
apex, about 1.5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, at least in age, 
2-valved, 2-celled, dehiscing to the' base. Seeds unknown. 
In forests at 700 m. alt. (No. 5527). 
I place the genus here proposed in the Tiliew, between Graeffia Seem., and 
Trichospermum Blume, differing from both in its 4-merous flowers and from the 
latter in the presence of bracteoles. 
DILLENIACE2E. 
SAURAUIA Willd. 
Saurauia latibracteata C'hoisy in Zoll. Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. (1854-55) 
148; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1906) 41. 
In forests 100 to 700 m. alt. (Nos. 5690, 5528). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. . 
Saurauia elegans (Choisy) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 19; Merr. 1. c. 42. 
In forested ravines at 700 m. alt. (No. 5655). 
Previously known only from the mountains of northern and central Luzon. 
Saurauia philippinensis Merrill n. sp. 
Subglabra, foliis oblongo-ovatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, glabris, 10 ad 
18 cm. longis, acuminatis; pedunculi axilla-res, fasciculati vel solitarii, 
1-, raro 2-flori; ovarium globosum, pilosum, 3-stylum. 
A shrub or small tree 7 m. high or less, nearly glabrous throughout. 
Branches slender, brownish, lenticellate, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely somewhat oblanceo- 
late glabrous, chartaceous, 10 to 18 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, the apex 
rather sharply acuminate, the base acute or acuminate, the margins 
rather sharply serrate; nerves 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib ; petioles 
1.5 to 3 cm. long. Flowers white, the peduncles solitary or fascicled 
in the axils. of the leaves and in the axils of fallen leaves on the larger 
branches, the peduncles slender, somewhat strigose, 2 cm. long or less, 
with a small bracteole at about the middle, 1, rarely 2 -flowered. Sepals 
elliptical to elliptical ovate, acute or rounded, 4 mm. long, the margins 
slightly ciliate. Petals glabrous, 7 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, cleft 
at the apex. Stamens 20 ; filaments 2 mm. long, anthers about 2.2 mm. 
long. Ovary somewhat pilose; styles 3, 4 mm. long, slightly united 
below. 
In forests at 700 m. alt. (No. 5529) ; from the same locality I refer here - No. 
5633, alt. 200 m., and also No. 4394 Merritt, June, 1906, alt. 1,300 m. In Minda- 
nao the species is represented by No. 4693 Mearns and Hutchinson, Mount Malin- 
dang, May, 1906, alt. 1,400 m., and in Basilan by No. 4011 Hutchinson, February, 
1906, alt. 540 m. 
