56 

 MONKMIACE^. 



1. KIBARA End!. 



1. K. ellipsoidea Merrill, n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree about m. bi<^li. Branches pale, glabrous. Leaves 

 glabrous throughout, elliptical oblong, subcoriaceous, opposite, rather pale when 

 dry, somewhat shining beneath, entire below, distantly toothed in the upper half. 

 14 to 17 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide, the apex abruptly short acuminate, the base 

 acute, the teeth irregular, small. 1 to 2 cm. distant; primary lateral nerves 

 prominent beneath, spreading. 7 to 8 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing 

 at 1 cm. from the margin, the reticulations distinct, very lax; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm. 

 long. Female flowers (immature) axillary glabrous, the carpels very numerous, 

 the peduncles elongated in infrutescence, stout, about 2 cm. long, the disk like 

 receptacle about 1 cm. in diameter in fruit, bearing few mature, carpels. Carpels 

 stipitate, ellipsoidal 2 to 2.5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. thick, glabrous, shining, 

 purple when mature, the stipes about 1 cm. long. 



(2843 Meyer) March, 1005. In dense forests in canons at 1,000 m. According 

 to the collector the aboriginal Negritos who inhabit this region use the fruits 

 for food. 



LAUKACE.*;. 



1. CINNAMOMUM Blume. 



1. C. mercadoi Vidal. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 224. 



(2482, 2945 Borden) January, March; (2626 Meyer.) February; (1247 Whit- 

 ford) May. In forests 100 to 700 m. Enemic. T., Samilin, Similin, Oalingag. 



2. MACHILUS Xees. 



1. M. philippinensis Merrill, n. sp. 



A small tree 8 to 15 m. high. Branches slender, brown or nearly black, glab- 

 rous, striate, the younger liranchlets rather densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves 

 obovate or oblong-obovate, snbcoiiacous. glabrous or the under surface with few 

 hairs when young or when very young pubescent on both surfaces, often some- 

 what glaucous beneath, shining above, rather sharply acuminate, narrowed below 

 to the acute base, 5 to 7 cm. long. 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, alternate; nerves 6 to 7 

 on each side of the midrib, ascending, evident beneath but rather obscure above, 

 the reticulations dense; petioles about 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, or when young 

 slightly pubescent. Panicles slender, axillary, few flowered, ti to 10 cm. long. 

 branched only above the middle, the peduncle, branches, pedicels and calyx lobes 

 uniformly pubescent with short reddish brown hairs, the branches short, spreading, 

 2 cm. long or less the pedicels 3 nun. long. Flowers hermaphrodite, greenish, 

 fragrant, about 3.5 mm. long. Sepals 6, oblong to oblong-ovate, 2.5 mm. long, 

 the outer three slightly smaller than the inner ones. Outer stamens nearly equal- 

 ing the sepals their anthers 4-celled, introrse, the ant litis of the inner row of 

 stamens extrorse. Ovary glabrous. Fruit Buhglobose, glabrous, about 8 mm. 

 in diameter, the calyx lobes not persistent. 



(1130. 1220 Whitford) March, April; (2793 Meyer) March. A tree on exposed 

 forested ridges 900 to 1,000 in. 



3. NEOLITSEA | Benth.) 



[Litsea § Xeolitsca Benth.; Tetradenia Xees. 1831. non Benth. 1830.) 



1. N. vidalii nom. now Litsea verticillata Vidal, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 



220. non Hance. 



