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about 20 cm long, rather densely and softly. gray-pubescent. 
Buds obovoid. Flowers about 4 mm long, externally densely pu- 
bescent, the perianth lobes oblong-obovate, rounded. Stamens 9, 
all 4-celled. Ovary glabrous, ovoid; style about 1 mm long. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, For Bur. 21289 Sandkuhl, April, 
1914, a single tree in Forbes Park, altitude about 1,400 meters. 
A species well characterized by its soft dense indumentum, in this char- 
acter differing from all known Philippine forms. Its alliance seems to be 
with Cinnamomum mollissimum Hook. f. of the Malay Peninsula from which 
it is readily distinguished by its acute or obtuse, not acuminate leaves, 
glabrous ovary, and many other characters. 
CRYPTOCARYA R. Brown 
CRYPTOCARYA LANCEOLATA sp. nov. 
_ Arbor parva inflorescentiis et ramulis junioribus minute 
cinereo-puberulis exceptis glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, lanceolatis, 
nitidis, usque ad 17 cm longis, basi acutis, apice gradatim an- 
gustatis, leviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, adscen- 
dentibus, curvatis, vix anastomosantibus, reticulis tenuibus, 
confertis, subtus jejeune foveolatis; infructescentibus termina- 
libus et in axillis superioribus, usque ad 10 cm longis, cinereo- 
puberulis; fructibus globosis vel globoso-ovoideis, glabris, ni- 
tidis, laevis, circiter 12 mm PaO. in siccitate nigris vel 
olivaceo-nigris. 
A small tree, the young branchlets and inflorescence cinereous- 
puberulent, otherwise glabrous. Branches somewhat olivaceous 
and slightly wrinkled when dry. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 
subcoriaceous, shining, 10 to 17 cm long, 2.5 to 5 em wide, the 
upper surface grayish-olivaceous, very smooth, and prominently 
shining, the lower paler, base acute, apex obscurely acuminate, 
gradually narrowed upward from the lower one-third or one- 
half; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, ascending, 
curved, scarcely anastomosing, distinct, the ultimate reticulations 
close, fine, the lower surface shallowly foveolate; petioles 
3 to 6 mm long, when young cinereous-puberulent. Panicles in 
the uppermost axils and terminal, forming a somewhat leafy 
terminal inflorescence, up to 10 cm in length. Fruit globose or 
globose-ovoid, about 12 mm in diameter, black or olivaceous when 
dry, smooth, glabrous, shining. 
LuZoN; Ilocos Norte Province, Buagao, For. Bur. 25098 Paraiso, February 
21, 1916, on slopes at an altitude of about 100 meters. 
A species well characterized by its lanceolate leaves, with rather distant, 
ascending, curved nerves, and very close ultimate reticulations which are 
shallowly foveolate on the lower surface. 
