XIV, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 395 
narrowly oblong, glabrous, 1.5 mm long; ovules usually 4; styles 
0.5 mm long. 
PANAyY, Antique Province, Batbatan Island, opposite Culasi, 
Bur. Sci. 32249 McGregor, June 29, 1918, fairly common in 
thickets at low altitudes. 
This species rather closely resembles Cuming 1607 from Mi- 
samis Province, Mindanao, which has been referred to Uvaria 
ovalifolia Blume but which apparently is not referable to Blume’s 
species. Among the other characters the present species differs 
from Uvaria ovalifolia in its somewhat smaller, fewer-nerved 
leaves; in being nearly glabrous; and in its entirely glabrous 
carpels. It is well characterized by its sepals and petals being 
nearly glabrous except for their densely ferruginous-pubescent 
margins and apices. 
LAURACEAE 
CRYPTOCARYA R. Brown 
CRYPTOCARYA RAMOSII sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis inflorescentiisque exceptis glabra; foliis 
oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, 6 ad 11 cm longis, 
acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 8, perspicuis, re- 
ticulis ultimis confertis, utrinque obscure foveolatis; fructibus 
ellipsoideis, 1.5 cm longis, nigris, nitidis, glabris, laevis, 1.5 cm 
longis. 
A tree, 5 to 6 m high, glabrous, except the young branchlets 
and inflorescences which are ferruginous-pubescent. Branches 
reddish-brown, lenticellate. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
subcoriaceous, usually pale when dry, shining, 6 to 11 cm long, 
1.5 to 4 cm wide, narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, base 
acute; lateral nerves usually 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, 
rather prominent on the lower surface, pinnately arranged, 
curved, anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations very close, both 
surfaces very shallowly and minutely foveolate; petioles 5 to 8 
mm long. Panicles in the uppermost axils, narrow, rather 
few-flowered, 6 to 8 cm long, the branches rather few, short, not 
exceeding 1.5 cm in length. Flowers subsessile, ferruginous- 
pubescent, about 4 mm long, the tube about 2 mm long. Pe- 
rianth-lobes elliptic-ovate, as long as the tube. Fruit ellipsoid, 
black and shining when dry, 1.5 cm long, glabrous, smooth. 
LuzON, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 
Bur. Sci. 38071 Ramos, August 30, 1918, in forests at low 
altitudes. _ 
The description of the flowers is from Bur. Sci. 33346 Ramos, 
