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soid, smooth, about 2 cm long, seated on the enlarged, cup- 
shaped calyx, which is 1,2 to 2 cm in diameter and about 1 cm 
high. 
Luzon, Laguna Province,.near San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 13523 Ramos, 
(type), August, 1910, For Bur. 15360 Tamesis, November, 1909. 
A species well characterized by its very prominently nerved leaves, but 
which may, when male flowers are known, prove to belong in the genus 
Lindera rather than in Litsea. * 
LITSEA MACGREGORII sp. nov. 
Arbor, inflorescentiis Saeaais glabra, ramis ramulisque tere- 
tibus; foliis alternis vel subverticillatis, oblongis, coriaceis, usque 
ad 16 cm longis, nitidis, subtus glaucescentibus, utrinque subae- 
qualiter angustatis, basi acutis, apice obtusis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 10, adscendentibus, subtus valde prominentibus; umbel- 
‘lis pedunculatis, axillaribus et e axillis defoliatis, fasciculatis, 
4- vel 5-floris, floribus pubescentibus, pedicellatis, bracteis invo- 
lucrantibus caducis. 
A tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, the branches and 
branchlets nearly black when dry, terete, smooth. Leaves al- 
ternate or subverticillate, oblong, coriaceous, 13 to 16 cm long, 
3 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and 
to the obtuse apex, the upper surface smooth and shining, 
brownish-olivaceous, the lower paler and more or less glaucous; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, ascending, 
very prominent on the lower surface, nearly straight, the reticula- 
tions obscure; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long, dark reddish-brown when 
dry. Umbels axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, 4 to . 
6 in a fascicle, the peduncles 1.5 to 2 cm long, all parts rather 
densely pale-pubescent. Involucral bracts caducous. Flowers 
4 or 5 in each umbel, the pedicels about 4 mm long, rather slender, 
pubescent. Perianth lobes about 4 mm long, elliptic, obtuse, 
_ concave, rather densely pale-pubescent. Fertile stamens 9, the 
anthers oblong, 2 mm long, the filaments somewhat pubescent, 
about 1 mm long, the glands about 0.6 mm in diameter. 
BILIRAN, Bur. Sci. 18493 McGregor, May 22, 1914, in forests, altitude 
about 200 meters. ‘ 
The specimens present male flowers only, and the species raehiae 
Litsea euphlebia Merr. in vegetative characters, but differs from it and 
from L. quercoides Elm. in its comparatively long-peduncled umbels. 
LITSEA MICRANTHA sp, nov. 
Arbor, partibus junioribus subtus foliis inflorescentiisque — 
minute pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis alternis, oblongis, 
chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 8 cm longis, mermrque 
