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glabrous, the entire margins subinvolute, oblongish to broadly 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acutely tapering towards both 
ends or cuneate at the base, the apex occasionally acuminate 
and terminated by a rounded point, 6 cm. wide across the 
middle, 15 cm. Jong, but frequently larger or even smaller; 
nerves about 7 pairs, mostly alternating with secondary ones, 
very prominent beneath, tips very obscurely united, finely and 
strongly reticulate on both sides; petiole stout, 1.5 cm. long, 
brown pubescent when young but soon wearing glabrous, 
channelled along the upper side; fruits usually solitary, pen- 
dulous, upon 8 to 5 em. long peduncles, smooth, hard, coal 
black, a trifle flattened, 2 em. in diameter, 5 cm. long, equally 
rounded at both ends, elongated. 
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Type specimen 7268, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
} Much resembling E. coriacea Merr., the only other Phil- 
i ippine Endiandrı, but the leaves are more tapering and 
fruits twice as long. 
LITSEA LAM. 
Litsea plateaefolia Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, 15 m. high; branches mostly toward the top, quite 
rigid and comparatively short; twigs smooth, green, turning 
dark brown in the dry state, angular towards the ends; bark 
reddish beneath the epidermis, its surface brown and quite 
smooth; wood light, yellowish, with a distinct peppery green 
odor. Leaves recurved or ascending, coriaceous, dark green 
and lucid on the upper surface, duller beneath, turning black- 
ish brown when dry especially on the upper surface, alter- 
natingly scattered along the branchlets, quite variable in size, 
the normal ones 18 cm. long by 6 cm. wide across the middle, 
broadly lanceolate or oblong, apex acute to acuminate, base 
rounded or short obtuse, the entire margins subinvolute, pet- 
iole varying from 1 to 3 cm. long, glabrous, stout, caniculate 
on the upper side; nerves smooth and brown, oblique, 11 to 
15 pairs, more conspicuous beneath, the tips obscurely united, 
reticulations obscure. Inflorescence upon racemose spikes 1 | 
dm. long or less, solitary from the leaf axils, or alternat- 
ingly arranged along the twigs beneath the foliage or towards 
