SEPTEMBER 12, 1908] SOME INTERESTING LAURACEAE 379 
long, thick and rigid, the outer surface covered with a short 
dense brown pubescence, the upper or deeply convex sur- 
face glabrous, subtending about 5 flowers; buds globose, 3 
mm. in diameter; insolucral bracts 4, base narrowed, brown 
tomentulose on the exterior except along the thin over- 
lapping margin and on the deeply convex upper surface, 
about 5 mm. long, elliptic or broadly obovate; perianth 
segments 6, oblong, at most 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 
short ciliate along the margin and somewhat scattered over 
the dorsal side; stamens 12, erect, inserted in series upon 
the perianth; anthers introrse, oblong with subtruncate ends, 
flattened, 1 mm. long, the 4 cells opening by spatulate lids 
hanging from the upper end; the filaments of the 6 outer 
stamens glabrous, 1.5 mm. in length, eglandular; the fila- 
ments of the innermost stamens only one half as long, also 
d glabrous, provided towards the base with a pair of very 
large glands or excrescences; ovary elongated ellipsoid, deeply 
sunken in the calyx cup; style 1.5 mm. long, strict, sub- 
compressed, glabrous, equalling the shorter stamens, termi- 
nated by a more or less flattened stigmatic surface; calyx 
of fruit 1.5 cm. long, as wide across the top, the upper 
portion cup shaped, the basal one half much constricted, 
the rim rather sharp, scaly; nut ellipsoid, 2.5 cm. long, 
1.5 em. thick across the middle, the basal one half inserted 
in the calyx cup, similarly rounded at both ends, hard 
and smooth, shining, coal black or a dull bluish purple. 
Type specimen 10329, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 
1908. Also specimen number 9961. 
E Discovered in dense woods and on nearly inaccessible 
: shrubby ridges at 4000 feet. This species is said to contain 
, *Segunda clase cahoy", and is known to the natives as 
P Bohian. Apparently it is a close relative of L. albayana 
| Vid. but without the very slender petioles bearing blades 
which are puberulous beneath and more variable in size and 
much thicker in texture; reticulations of our leaves not 
prominent nor the nut globose. The foliage and cupular 
fruits are very similar to some species of Quercus. _ 
