ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, III. 321 
are still in use for Laportea meyeniana as well as for other species of the genus ; 
sagay is recorded for L. crassifolia; the two others known to Camel, ligathun 
and apareaqua, seem to have dropped from use. They may not have been 
Philippine. 
LAURACEAE. 
LITSEA Lam. 
Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Sehi f era glutinosa Lour, ¥\. Cochinclu (1790) 638. 
Lifsea cTiincnsis Lam. Encycl. 3 (1791) 574. 
Litsaea schif era 'Pors. Syn. 2 (1807) 4. 
Litsea sebifcra was based directly upon Loureiro's species, which has been 
considered by practically all authors, beginning witli Persoon, to be the same as 
Litsea cliinensis Lam., although not the species called L. chinensis by Blume or 
Heyne. Another species identified with it has been GJabraria iersa Linn. Mant. 
(1771) 270, upon which Litsea tcrsa Merr. was based. Linnaeus' species is 
based upon Lignum laeve mims Humph. Herb. Amboin. 3: 72, pi U, /f 
Glahraria tersa Linn, is the same species as Sehifcra glutinosa I^ur., it is its 
oldest name, if not, it is doubtless the oldest name for some other species yet to 
be extricated. Both these generic names are older than LUsca, but the latter 
is among the nomina eonscrvanda, except ^o far as SeUfera is concerned it 
doubtless having been omitted because until recently the portion of the third 
volume of Lamarck's Encyclopedia in which Litsea appeared was thought to 
have been published in 1789. ^ , , , 
In the description of Runiphius' plate, l.c uses both Latm and local names 
not mentioned in the preceding text, and it is difficult to say whether he intended 
them as substitutes or as additional. The plate itself shows Glalrar^a tcrsa to 
have the flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 leaves with acute bases 
acutely acu.unate apices, and 3 or 4 veins. Not only the Pluhpp.ne inater a 
identifled as L. clnncnsis Lam. or some supposedly equivalent species but shee 
from other countries, have a different inflorescence, although rarely a flo«e 
here and there may be solitary. The leaf-veins are more numerous, tl c lea e 
themselves broader, usually with a different base and ^^^^ J^^ ^J'^ 
apev While there is every reason to believe that Glalrarta tcrsa has rightly 
been' referred to LUsca, it seems to represent a auite different spec.es from L. 
chinensis Lam. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. 
POLYOSMA Blume. 
Polyosma retusa sp. nov. 
Polyosma rexusa sp. iw». n i. 
Arbor- inflorescentiis terminalibus, racemoso-paniculatis ; flonbus vin- 
dibt Mi" petiolatis, oblanceolatis, integris, basi acutis, ap.ce retus., 
iX^oscencos terminal, about 8 cnt long, the f^^^^l^^^'JZ 
mosely or paniculat.ly, peduncles, when any, about -- 1°^^^ P^^^^^^^ 
about the same length, more or less eovered -^^h golde-ol- P^be^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
which is also present upon the rachis sparingly, upon the peduncles 
p del and cdyx more densely, on the basal half of the outer surface 
« e ^^^^^^^^^ densely and on their apical half more sparmgly ; brac^^ a 
Ce tL pedicds and bracteoles (usually 3 m number) at the. 
