xi, c, i Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon H 



infructescences, about 3 cm in diameter, usually 10 to 12 fruits 

 in each head, the pedicels stout, 2 to 3 mm long, and with the 

 persistent, somewhat accrescent calyx more or less ferruginous 

 pubescent, the calyx distinctly 4- or 5-toothed, about 7 mm in 

 diameter, the fruits ovoid to subglobose, apparently fleshy, when 

 dry black, wrinkled, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23348 Ramos, 

 August 29, 1915, in damp forests. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Litsea tayabensis Elm., but with 

 entirely differently shaped, shorter, fewer nerved leaves. 



LITSEA SORSOGON ENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 12 m alta, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque 

 ferrugineo-puberulis, foliis junioribus subtus minute obscure 

 puberulis, vetustioribus glabris; foliis alternis, oblongis ad an- 

 guste oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 17 cm longis, utrinque subae- 

 qualiter angustatis, basi acutis, apice obtusis ad breviter obtuse 

 acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, prominentibus, adscen- 

 dentibus; umbellulis axillaribus et e axillis defoliatis, breviter 

 pedunculatis, bracteatis, 5-floris; staminibus fertilibus 9, anthe- 

 ris omnibus 4-locellatis, introrsis. 



A tree about 12 m high, the young branchlets and the in- 

 florescence ferruginous-puberulent. Branches terete, brown. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong to narrowly oblong, coriaceous, 10 

 to 17 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, rather pale-olivaceous when 

 dry, paler beneath, subequally narrowed to the acute base and 

 to the somewhat obtuse to obscurely obtuse-acuminate apex, 

 the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface at first minutely 

 puberulent, ultimately glabrous, both surfaces under a lens 

 minutely and shallowly subf oveolate-reticulate ; lateral nerves 

 about 8 on each side of the midrib, very prominent, ascend- 

 ing, somewhat curved, anastomosing, the primary reticula- 

 tions slender, not prominent; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, 

 ultimately glabrous. Umbellules fascicled, numerous, in the 

 axils of the leaves and in the axils of fallen leaves, the pedun- 

 cles ferruginous-puberulent, up to 5 mm in length, somewhat 

 thickened upward. Bracts obovate to suborbicular, concave, 

 rounded, ferruginous-puberulent, about 5 mm in diameter. 

 Flowers yellowish-white, 5 in each umbellule, pedicelled, the 

 tube pubescent. Perianth lobes 6, oblong-ovate to oblong, obtuse, 

 about 3 mm long, spreading in anthesis, pubescent outside. 

 Fertile stamens 9, in three series, all anthers 4-celled, introrse. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Bulusan Volcano, Bur. Sci. 23678 Ramos, 

 September 6, 1915, in damp forests on the lower slopes. Apparently 



