LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Hl. Manila, P. I.,-September 12, 1908. Art. 17. ~ — 
SOME INTERESTING LAURACEAE 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
opem ue 
ACTINODAPHNE NEES 
Actinodaphne microphylla Elm. n. sp. 
Striet, 8 m. high tree; wood soft, yellowish except the 
extreme whitish sapwood, odorless, somewhat bitterish; bark 
mottled; branches ascending, numerous, the ultimate ones 
slender and lax, smooth and whitish gray except the brown 
tomentulose tips. Leaves coriaceous, dark lucid green and 
slightly conduplicate on the upper side, ascending, the entire 
margins involute especially towards the base, glaucescent or 
yellowish green beneath, glabrous, quite variable in size, the — 
larger ones 1 dm. long, 2 cm. wide, lanceolate to oblanceolate; 
occasionally subfalcate, acuminate at apex, slenderly tapering 
toward the base, numerous, and chiefly at the ends of the 
twigs; petiole slender, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, yellowish, glabrous, 
grooved along the upper side; midvein brown, very prominent 
beneath, grooved on the upper side; the lateral ones very 
obscure and irregular in number. Inflorescence ascending, 
spicate, less than 5 cm. long, strict, solitary from the axils 
of the conspicuous leaf scars on the twigs beneath the 
foliage, glabrous; pedicels less than 8 mm. long, divaricate, 
straight or recurved, alternating but more numerous towards 
the apex, brown puberulous in the young state but soon 
becoming glabrous; the subtending bracts caducous, 2 mm. — a 
