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slender, dense; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Involucres in axillary, 
solitary, subumbellate fascicles, the peduncles and bracts densely 
brown-pilose, the peduncles 5 to 10 mm long. Involucral bracts 
usually 4, in nearly mature bud about 4 mm in diameter, concave, 
orbicular. Flowers about 5 in each head, pubescent. Fertile 
anthers 12, all introrse. 
Luzon, Cagayan Province, Abulug River, Bur. Sci. 14518 Ramos, Feb- 
ruary, 1912, in forests. 
A fruiting specimen from the same locality, Bur. Sci. 13902 Ramos, 
presumably represents the same species, but has relatively somewhat broader 
leaves, and its lateral nerves are more spreading. The accrescent calyx is 
funnel-shaped, about 1.5 cm long, 1 cm wide, and the fruit is subglobose 
or depressed-globose, apparently somewhat fleshy, black when dry, 2 cm 
in diameter. 
Apparently closely allied to Litsea albayana Vid., but differing especially 
in its fine, close ultimate reticulations, which in Vidal’s species are very 
obscure or nearly obsolete. 
~LITSEA SAMARENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 12 m alta, ramulis junioribus et subtus foliis 
minute pubescentibus; foliis alternis, oblongo-obovatis, subcor- 
iaceis, usque ad 35 cm longis, apice late rotundatis vel abrupte 
brevissime acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 18, 
subtus prominentibus; fructibus e ramis defoliatis, solitariis 
vel fasciculatis, ovoideis, 2 to 3 cm longis, calycibus accrescen- 
tibus infundibuliformibus, circiter 1.5 cm longis 1 cm diametro. 
A tree about 12 m high, the younger branchlets, petioles, and 
lower surfaces of the leaves minutely pubescent with short, 
rather pale hairs. Branches terete, glabrous, smooth, about 1 
cm in diameter, the branchlets much more slender, slightly 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, sometimes somewhat crowded 
toward the apices of the branchlets, oblong-obovate, subcoria- 
ceous, 22 to 35 cm long, 12 to 18 cm wide, the apex broadly 
rounded to abruptly and shortly acuminate, base acute, the 
upper surface olivaceous, shining, the lower somewhat paler, 
minutely cinerous-pubescent on the midribs, nerves, and retic- 
ulations; lateral nerves about 18 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, spreading-curved, the primary reticulations sub- 
parallel, prominent on the lower surface, the ultimate reticula- 
tions shallowly foveolate on both surfaces; petioles rather 
slender, 4 to 6 cm long, nearly black when dry, sparingly cine- 
reous-pubescent. Fruits on the branches below the leaves, 
solitary or somewhat fascicled, the peduncles stout, brown, 
glabrous, about 1 cm long, the accrescent calyx funnel-shaped, 
about 1.5 cm long and 1 cm in diameter at the apex, truncate, — 
