260 MERRILL. 



A tree about 10 m high, nearly glabrous except the young branchlets 

 ami inflorescence. Branches terete, reddish-brown, glabrous, the young 

 branchlets rather densely ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves opposite or sub- 

 opposite, oblong, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, coriaceous, of the 

 same color on both surfaces, or the lower surface brownish, the upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, the lower wvy sparingly pubescent, the apes 

 acute, obtuse, or very obscurely acuminate, the base acute; nerves about 

 IS on each side of the midrib, beneath very prominent, obscurely anasto- 

 mosing; petioles Bubglabrous, about 1 cm long. Flowers umbellate, the 

 umbels involucrate, crowded in tbe leaf-axils, sessile or short-pedunculate, 

 the involucral scales 4, concave, orbicular or obovoid, 4 to S mm long, 

 outside ferruginous-pubescent. Staminate flowers 3 in each umbel, sessile 

 or Bubsessile, the tube very short, ferruginous-pubescent outside, the 

 segments G, oblong, obtuse, subequal, :> to 3.6 mm long, 1..") mm wide, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Fertile stamens 5), the longer filaments 2.5 mm 

 long, glabrous or nearly so; anthers all introrse. all 1-loccllate. 



Mindanao. District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9148 Whitford <{■ 

 Hutokinton, January, 1908. 



A species apparently allied to hilnea luzonica (Bl.) F.-Vill., but with much 

 larger, differently shaped leaves. As the genera in this group are defined in the 

 Nat. Pfianzenfamilien, this species, having !» fertile stamens, might be referred i<> 

 Aetinodaphne. 



Litsea philippinensis sp. nov. 



Arbor us<|iie ad 20 m alta; foliis alternis, eoriaceis, nitidis, glabris \el 

 subglabris. oblongo-elliptieis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, apice rotundatis vel 

 acutis, basi acutis; nervis iitrinque 12 ad 15, prominentibus, reticulis 

 validis subparallelis; petiolis 1 ad 2."> cm longis; floribus eapitulatis, 

 capitulis globosis, fasciculatis vel in racemis brevibus aiillaribus disposi- 

 tis; calycis lobis 6, pubescentibus ; staminibus fertilibus 12, filament is 

 villosis; fructibus oblongo-ovoideis, glabris, obtusis, circiter 3.5 cm longis. 

 tubis auctis, eupulatis, circiter 2 cm diahietro. 



A tree 15 to 20 m high. Branches terete, stout, brown, glabrous, the 

 branchlets somewhat ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic- 

 oblong, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, coriaceous, somewbat shining, 

 usually brownish when dry, at least tbe nerves, not at all glaucous, the 

 upper surface glabrous, or tbe midrib sometimes pubescent, the lower 

 surface glabrous or tbe midrib and nerves usually more or less pubescent. 

 the ;ipex rounded or acute, tbe base usually acute; nerves 12 to 15 on 

 each side of the midrib, very prominent, parallel, obscurely anastomosing 

 near the margin of the leaf, tbe reticulations very distinct, subparallcl : 

 petioles pubescent, 1 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers in heads, axillary, fascicled 

 or in short racemes, mostly from the branches below tbe leaves, in tbe 

 axils of fallen leaves, the rachis, when present, stout, not exceeding 1 



