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minently ciliate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style about 2 mm long. 
Fruit narrowly ovoid, about 2.5 cm long, apex acute, the accres- 
cent calyx salver-shapped, the tube subcylindric, stout, about 5 
mm long, the limb spreading, about 1 cm in diameter. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 1787, November 8, 
1912, in forests, altitude about 1,700 meters. 
I have some doubt as to the genus of this species, although it is probably 
a Litsea. The species is apparently dioecious, as a careful examination of 
very many flowers failed to show a single one with fertile stamens. 
LITSEA ALBAYANA Vid. Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip, (1886) 227. 
Luzon, Albay Province, Vidal 860 (type), 1681, in Herb. Kew. LEYTE, 
For Bur. 12784 Rosenbluth. I am disposed also to refer here Cuming 894 
from Albay Province, Luzon, on which is based the Philippine reference of 
Lindera reticulata F.-Vill., and For. Bur, 7317 Everett, For. Bur. 15148 
Tarrosa, from Negros. 
The species is an imperfectly known one and may just as well be referable 
to Lindera as to Litsea, for the flowers are as yet unknown. Meissner * 
referred Cuming 894 to Aperula reticulata Blume (Lindera reticulata F.- 
Vill.). I have examined the type of Blume’s species in the Leiden Her- 
barium, and it is a plant entirely different from that represented by Cuming 
894; the reference of Cuming’s plant to Blume’s species was a manifest error 
on the part of Meissner. 
PHOEBE Nees 
PHOEBE GLABRIFOLIA sp. nov. i is 
Arbor usque ad 18 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque 
exceptis glabra; foliis oblongo-obovatis, coriaceis, usque ad 22 
cm longis, apice obtusis ad latissime breviter et obtuse acuminatis, 
deorsum angustatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, subtus 
valde prominentibus; paniculis axillaribus, longe pedunculatis, 
usque ad 18 cm longis, floribus circiter 6 mm diametro. 
A tree 15 to 18 m high, glabrous or nearly so except the younger 
parts and the inflorescence. Branches terete, brownish, rather 
stout, often with numerous rather large petiolar scars, glabrous, 
the younger parts sparingly pubescent. Leaves somewhat crowd- 
ed at the apices of the branchlets, oblong-obovate, rather thickly 
coriaceous, 12 to 22 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, the upper surface 
brownish-olivaceous when dry; glabrous, shining, the lower 
slightly paler, rarely somewhat glaucous, glabrous or very mi- 
nutely and obscurely puberulent, the apex obtuse to very broadly, 
shortly, and bluntly acuminate, narrowed below to the acute 
base; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent on the lower surface, looped-anastomosing, the reticu- 
lations prominent; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Panicles axillary, 
*DC. Prodr. 157 (1864) 243. 
