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smooth, shining, glabrous, brown, terete. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong-ovate, uniformly brown, shining, and of about the same 

 color on both surfaces when dry, 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm 

 wide, base acute, prominently triplinerved, apex subcaudate- 

 acuminate, acumen up to 1.5 cm long, blunt; basal nerves reach- 

 ing to the upper three-fourths of the leaf, the lateral nerves 

 leaving the midrib at from 3 to 7 mm above the base, at most 

 two on each side of the midrib, distant, prominent, coarsely 

 anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations close, both surfaces 

 under a lens shallowly and densely subfoveolate ; petioles gla- 

 brous, brown, 1 cm long or less. Panicles 5 to 7 cm long, ob- 

 scurely pubescent. Fruits glabrous, globose or broadly ovoid, 

 dark-brown when dry, smooth, not at all ribbed, about 8 mm 

 in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23338 Ramos, 

 September 10, 1915, in damp forests. 



Manifestly very closely allied to Cryptocarya ilocana Vid., from which 

 it is distinguished by its brown, shining, glabrous, fewer nerved, more 

 prominently acuminate leaves and its entirely glabrous, smooth and shining, 

 brown branches and branchlets. Otherwise it is very similar to Vidal's 

 species, and presents in common with it prominently triplinerved leaves. 



LITSEA Lamarck 



LITSEA CONFERTA sp. nov. 



Arbor, subtus foliis petiolis ramulisque dense ferrugineo-pubes- 

 centibus; foliis subverticillatis, elliptico-ovatis, coriaceis, usque 

 ad 14 cm longis, prominente acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 7, valde prominentibus, adscendentibus ; fruc- 

 tibus e ramis infra foliis, dense confertis, numerosis, ovoideis, 

 glabris, in siccitate verruculosis, nigris, 8 ad 10 mm diametro, 

 calycibus leviter accrescentibus, 4-5-dentatis, persistentibus, 

 extus plus minusve ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 



A tree, the branchlets, lower surface of the leaves, and the 

 petioles densely ferruginous-pubescent with short hairs, the 

 older branches quite glabrous. Leaves subverticillate, some- 

 what crowded at the tips of the branchlets, elliptic-ovate, coria- 

 ceous, 8 to 14 cm long, 4 to 6.5 cm wide, the apex prominently 

 and rather sharply acuminate, the base acute, the upper surface 

 smooth, shining, under a lens densely subfoveolate-raticulate, 

 the midrib and nerves more or less pubescent; lateral nerves 

 about 7 on each side of the midrib, very prominent, ascending, 

 curved-anastomosing, the primary reticulations subparallel, 

 distinct; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Fruits crowded on the 

 branches below the leaves in sessile, subcapitate, rather dense 



