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sed dense subfoveolatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, subtus pallidis vel 

 glaucescentibus ; fructibus axillaribus, fasciculatis, pedicellatis, 

 subellipsoideis, circiter 8 mm longis. 



A tree about 5 m high, entirely glabrous except the imbricate 

 axillary bud-scales (flowers not seen) . Branches and branchlets 

 terete, slender, brownish to nearly black when dry. Leaves alter- 

 nate, not at all pseudo-verticillate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 

 oblong to lanceolate, 5.5 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, pale 

 to olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower surface usually glau- 

 cous, both surfaces densely and shallowly subfoveolate, the base 

 acute, prominently 3-nerved, not at all 3-plinerved, the lateral 

 nerves extending nearly to the tip, the apex slenderly subcau- 

 date-acuminate, the acumen 1 to 1.5 cm long; petioles 1 cm long 

 or less. Flowers not seen. .Fruits axillary, fascicled, numerous, 

 their pedicels somewhat thickened upward, up to 1 cm in length, 

 the immature fruits subellipsoid, about 8 mm long. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11016 

 (type), Levine 1351, widely scattered in damp forested ravines, altitude 

 800 to 1,100 meters. 



This species is well characterized by its alternate, shallowly and densely 

 foveolate, 3-nerved (not 3-plinerved), subcaudate-acuminate leaves, which 

 are glaucous on the lower surface. In aspect it somewhat resembles 

 Neolitsea pulchella Merr. but is distinguished by being entirely glabrous 

 (except the pubescent bud-scales), in its 3-nerved, not 3-plinerved, sub- 

 caudate-acuminate leaves, and in their strictly alternate, not pseudo- 

 verticillate, arrangement. 



NEOLITSEA ? LEVINEI sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 6 m alta, ramulis et petiolis dense brunneo- 

 pubescentibus ; foliis verticillatis, coriaceis, oblongo-lanceolatis 

 ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, nitidis, basi 

 acutis, perspicue 3-plinerviis, nervis primariis supra basin utrin- 

 que 1, prominentibus, apice perspicue acuminatis, supra laevis, 

 nitidis, subtus albido-glaucescentibus ; fructibus e axillis defolia- 

 tis, racemose dispositis, ellipsoideis, circiter 1.5 cm longis. 



A tree about 6 m high, glabrous or nearly so except for the 

 densely brown-pubescent branchlets and petioles, the branches 

 and branchlets terete. Leaves verticillately crowded at the tips 

 of the branchlets, 4 or 5 in a whorl, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 

 to oblong-oblanceolate, 15 to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 7 cm wide, base 

 acute, prominently 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves leaving the 

 midrib about 1 cm above the base, arched-anastomosing with the 

 other pair of lateral nerves in the upper three-fourths of the 

 leaf, the only other pair of lateral nerves leaving the midrib 

 in the upper two-thirds to three-fourths, the reticulations lax, 



