182 The Philippine Journal of Science 1917 
LITSEA Lamarck © 
LITSEA ILOCANA sp, nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis junioribus et inflorescentiis ferrugineo- 
puberulis, ceteroquin glabra; ramis ramulisque teretibus, brun- 
neis vel rubro-brunneis; foliis oppositis vel suboppositis, coria- 
ceis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, lanceolatis, usque ad 13 cm 
longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice ob- 
tusis vel obscure obtuseque acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 
9, curvatis, obscure anastomosantibus; fructibus axillaribus, fas- 
ciculatis, brevissime pedicellatis, calycibus accrescentibus, cir- 
citer 8 mm diametro, fructibus oblongis ad oblongo-ellipsoideis, 
circiter 1.4 cm longis, minute apiculatis. 
A small tree, the young branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences 
rather densely ferruginous-puberulent, soon becoming glabrous. 
_ Branches and branchlets terete, brown or reddish-brown. Leaves 
mostly opposite or subopposite, lanceolate, coriaceous, 8 to 13 cm — 
long, 2 to 3.5 em wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base 
and to the blunt or very obscurely blunt-acuminate apex, shining 
on both surfaces, the upper surface pale greenish when dry; late- 
ral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, slender, curved, 
obscurely anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations fine, close, the 
upper surface smooth, the lower shallowly and minutely foveo- 
late; petioles about 5 mm long. Fruits axillary, usually three 
developing from each very short peduncle, the very short stout 
pedicels not exceeding 2 mm in length. Accrescent calyx about 
8 mm in diameter, brown, thickly coriaceous, obconic. Fruit 
oblong to oblong-elliptic, about 1.4 cm long, brown when dry, 
apiculate. | 
Luzon, Ilocos Sur Province, Talinaaden, For Bur. 25485 Paraiso, March 
25, 1916, on slopes at an altitude of 450 meters. — 
A species belonging in the general group with Litsea luzonica F.-Vill., 
but quite different from that species in its vegetative characters. 
LITSEA ABRAENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 10 m alta, ramis teretibus, ramulis in 
siccitate nigrescentibus, teretibus vel obscure angilatis; foliis al- 
ternis, coriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 12 cm 
longis, supra nitidis, laevis, viridi-olivaceis, subtus glaucescen- 
tibus, apice acute acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 
8, prominentibus, curvato-anastomosantibus, reticulis tenuibus, 
obscuris; umbellulis 4- vel 5-floris, racemose dispositis, racemis 
axillaribus, 4 ad 7 cm longis; bracteis 4, extus minute parce 
puberulis, in siccitate nigrescentibus, concavis, orbiculari-ovatis, 
7 ad 8 mm diametro; floribus glabris, segmentis oblongo-lan- 
