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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II. Art. 17 
Litsea membranacea Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect tree, #8 m. high; with white, rather soft 
wood and large pith; bark smooth and brown; branches 
slender, divaricate, sparingly branched, the ends usually 
suberect. Leaves membranous, spreading in a whorl at the 
ends of the shoots, rarely persistent on the second year 
old twig, flat, glaucous green beneath, broadly oblanceolate, 
apex acute. base obtuse or acute, soft cinereous pubescent 
beneath, also short pubescent on the upper surface when 
young, but becoming glabrous except along the caniculate 
nerves, 3 dm. long, from 4 to 9 cm. wide pbove the middle, 
unequal in size; nerves pinnatiform, about 770 on each side, 
ascending, the midvein very prominent, the cross bars not 
conspicuous; petioles 2 cm. long, soft brown pubescent as is 
also the soft growing shoot. Flowers 3 to 5 in a head, clust- 
ered on short .tubegcles along the 2 or 3 year old branches; 
peduneles 8 iv ens Similarly pubescent, split into 4 to 5 
segments, coriaceous; pedicels 4 mm. long, comparatively thick; 
perianth cup fleshy, pubescent on the interior as well as on 
the exterior; its segments about 6, obovate or elliptic, 3 mm. 
long. pubescent or the outer side towards the base, punctate 
and reflexed; stamens very short, discoid, more than 12 to 16, 
inserted a trifle below the throat, sudtended by ciliate yellowish 
hairs and numerous filiform appendages; anthers toned, in- 
trorse; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 8961, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Pierino 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
In dense humid woodlands below Balete a small set- 
tlement three miles west of Sablan. The Igorrotes call it 
Tawaco. It has also been collected by Mrs. Clemens in the 
Lake Lanao region, Mindanao. 
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Litsea tayabensis Elm. n. sp. 
A 10 m. high tree; branches few, scattering, the bran- 
chlets in subwhorls, the terminal portion of the twigs dense- 
ly covered with soft umber colored hairs; wood moderately 
hard, yellowish. Leaves rigid, glaucous and soft yellowish 
pubescent beneath, shining green above when mature except 
the nerves which are usually covered with a short clears gray 
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