898 The Philippine Journal of Science 1919 
acutis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, junioribus ad costa villosis, 
vetustioribus glaberrimis, penninerviis, nervis primariis utrin- 
que circiter 10; fructibus axillaribus, fasciculatis, parvis, gla- 
bris, pedicellis adpresse pallide villosis, circiter 5 mm longis. 
A tree, about 6 m high, the young branchlets and petioles 
densely pale or pale-ferruginous appressed-pubescent. Branches 
glabrous, terete, the branchlets verticillate, 3 to 6 at a node. 
Leaves verticillate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brownish when 
dry, lanceolate, 5 to 7 cm long, 1 to 1.5 em wide, narrowed below 
to the acute base and above to the slenderly acuminate apex, 
shining, smooth, the older ones entirely glabrous, the younger 
ones pale appressed-villous along the midrib on both surfaces; 
nerves all pinnately arranged, the primary ones about 10 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, curved, somewhat ascending, ob- 
scurely anastomosing, the reticulations not prominent, the ulti- 
mate ones close and very obscurely foveolate; petioles 5 to 8 mm 
long, rather densely pubescent. Fruits fascicled on the ultimate 
branches below the leaves, 3 to 6 in a fascicle, the pedicels rather 
stout, somewhat thickened upward, pale appressed-pubescent, 
the persistent calyx-tube somewhat funnel-shaped, truncate, 
glabrous, about 5 mm in diameter. 
CATANDUANES, Mount Mariguidon, Bur. Sci. 30231 Ramos, 
November 27, 1917, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 
This species is well characterized by its verticillate branchlets 
and its small, lanceolate, penninerved leaves. It does not appear 
to be very closely allied to any of the previously described species 
of the genus. 
NEOLITSEA PAUCINERVIA sp. nov. 
Species N. zeylanicae affinis. Arbor circiter 7 m alta, ramis 
et foliis glabris, ramulis dense pubescentibus; foliis alternis, 
oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 
usque ad 8 cm longis et 3 cm latis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 
acutis, 3-plinerviis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 3, dis- 
tinctis, curvato-anastomosantibus, adscendentibus, obscure anas- 
tomosantibus; fructibus axillaribus, ovoideis vel subglobosis, in 
siccitate nigris, rugosis, nitidis, circiter 5 mm diametro, calycis 
lobis 4, lanceolatis, acuminatis, villosis, pedicellis nigris, deci- 
due villosis. 
A tree, about 7 m high, the branches smooth, terete, glabrous, 
the branchlets and petioles densely pubescent with short hairs. 
Leaves alternate, rather more numerous near the tips of the 
branchlets and here sometimes pseudo-verticillate, oblong-lanceo- 
late, subcoriaceous, brownish and shining when dry, both sur- 
