SEPTEMBER 12, 1908] SOME INTERESTING LAURACEAE 381 
tomentum, entire, oblong to broadly oblanceolate to even sub- 
ovate, apex gradually tapering into an acute to acuminate 
point or in the obovate blades abruptly acute, base obtuse 
to subcuneate, 25 cm. long, 9 cm. wide at or immediately 
above the middle, the younger blades soft reddish brown 
pubescent on both sides; petiole as long as 3 cm., thick, 
covered with dirty hairs; nerves 5 to 7 or even 9 on a side, 
very oblique, prominent beneath, tips barely united, cross 
bars numerous and comparatively prominent, all densely 
ferruginously pubescent; bracts on the young twigs and be- 
tween the whorls of the foliaceous leaves 3 cm. long, linear, 
brown, soft pubescent on the exterior, glabrous on the in- 
ner, caducous. Inflorescence in the leaf axils but chiefly 
in the axils of fallen leaves of the two year old twigs, 
clustered, 1. 5 cm. long or a trifle longer, at the base 
subtended by numerous glabrous rather stiff imbricated per- 
sistent bracts; peduncles 5 mm. long, densely pubescent; 
pedicels about 4 in a cluster, very similar except thinner, 
subtended by a whorl of 3 to 5 involucral bracts; these 
nearly equal the peduncles, elliptic, brown, the middle outer 
side short brown pubescent, glabrous on the inner side and 
along the thin margins, imbricate, caducous; perianth brown, 
united near the base, glabrous on the inside, pubescent on 
the exposed outer side, about 4 mm. in length, the 7 oblong 
segments ultimately subdeflexed; fertile stamens 9; filaments 
4 mm. long, subflexuose, the lower 3 mm. conspicuously hairy, 
all inserted upon the base of the perianth; anthers finely 
faveolate, 1. 5 mm. long, basifixed, truncate at the base, 
persistent, pointed at the apex, turning brown with age; the 
lower pair of cells larger, the upper pair obliquely superpos- 
[ ed, all opening by lids suspended from the upper end; basal 
f glands or appendages of the third series of stamens flattened, 
p | more or less rugose, fleshy, glabrous, 1. 25 mm. long. 
Type specimen 9194, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. | 
Just recently I collected it in the woods of Cuernos 
Mountains, Negros Oriental, where it grew to a large sized 
timber tree. 
