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narrowed below, thick, brown, much wrinkled when dry. Fruit 
ovoid, 2 to 3 cm long, apparently dark-red and somewhat fleshy 
when fresh, when dry black, shining, wrinkled, glabrous, obtuse 
or rounded at the apex. 
SAMAR, Cauayan Valley, Bur. Sci. 17541 Ramos, March 24, 1914, on 
forested slopes. 
Very distinct from Litsea ampla Merr. which it somewhat resembles; 
among the distinguishing characters are its differently shaped leaves, which 
are acute at the base, much longer petioles, and much larger fruits and 
calyces. ~ : 
LITSEA VANOVERBERGHII sp. nov. 
’ Arbor 5 ad 6 m alta ramulis junioribus et inflorescentiis ex- 
ceptis glabra; foliis alternis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, coria- | 
ceis, usque ad 9 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, 
basi acutis, apice obtusis at leviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 
8 vel 9, reticulis obscuris; umbellis axillaribus, fascicplatis, cir- 
citer 6-floris, pedicellatis, floribus dense pubescentibus, 4 ad 5 
mm longis; fructibus anguste ovoideis, acutis, circiter 2.5 cm 
longis, calycibus accrescentibus, hypocrateriformibus, 1 cm dia- 
metro. 
A tree, apparently dioecious, 5 to 6 m high, glabrous except 
the inflorescence and the very youngest branchlets. Branches 
grayish-brown or brownish, terete, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, the 
young branchlets minutely cinereous-puberulent. Leaves alter- 
nate, oblong to oblong-elliptic, thickly coriaceous, 6 to 9 cm long, 
2.5 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and 
to the obtuse, acute, or obscurely acuminate apex, brownish or 
brownish-olivaceous on the upper surface, somewhat shining, 
the lower surface paler; lateral nerves 8 or 9 on each side of 
the midrib, prominent, curved, not or very obscurely anasto- 
mosing, brown when dry, the reticulations obscure, both sur- 
faces minutely and very shallowly foveolate, the upper more 
distinctly so than the lower; petioles glabrous, brown, about 8 
mm long. Umbels axillary, fascicled, 3 to 6 in a fascicle, the 
peduncles appressed-pubescent, 4 to 5 mm long. Bracts 4, ovate 
to broadly ovate, concave, rounded, slightly pubescent externally, 
about 4 mm long. Flowers usually 6 in each umbel, 4 to 5 mm 
long, the tube somewhat urceolate, appressed-pubescent, some- 
what narrowed below, the lobes 6, subequal, obtuse to acute, 
ovate to oblong-ovate, 1.5 mm long or less. Staminodes 6, in 
two series, the inner three about 1.2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, 
0.2 mm wide, with two prominent, lateral, stipitate, capitate 
glands at the base, the outer three staminodes linear-lanceolate . 
to linear-oblanceolate, without appendages, the lower part pro- 
