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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II. Arr. 17 
Litsea griseola Elm. n. sp. 
Large spreading tree, 15 m. high; branchlets smooth l 
longitudinally striate, rather sparse, thick, heavy, watery; 1 
bark gray or mottled, thick, checked, that on the twigs 
brown; wood soft, white, with a large pith. Leaves condup- 
licate on the upper side, coriaceous, smooth above, much 
paler or yellowish green beneath and when young densely 
but with a very short tomentum, alternate, mostly on the 
ends of the twigs, oblong to ovately lanceelate, apex bluntly 
obtuse, the basal one half rather abruptly extended into 
a cuneate base, the medium sized blades 3 dm. long, 1 dm. 
wide across the middle; petiole glabrous, scarcely longer 
than 1 em., very thick, deeply grooved on the upper side; 
midvein very prominent beneath, caniculate on the upper 
side. towards the base; lateral nerves 13 to 17 on each 
side, slightly ascending, the apical portion strongly curved, 
very obscurely united if at all, reticulations very obscure; 
fruits on a rigid subpanieulate 3 to 5 cm. long infrutes- 
cence, scattered along the branchlets or in the lower leaf 
axils; peduncles and pedicels stout, covered with soft yello- 
wish brown adpressed hairs, the pedicel about 5 mm. long; 
calyx cup turbinate, in young fruit subtruncate at apex, 
15 mm. high, at least that across the top, green, hard, 
thick; nut apparently turning whitish when mature. 
Type specimen 9242, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
It was discovered on a steep slope of the wooded can- 
yon along the road towards the barrio of Sampaloc. Dis- 
tantly related to L. garciae Vid., but our leaf bases are not 
obtuse nor subauriculate; neither is the infrutescence on 
our specimen a 10 cm. long axillary raceme. Mrs. Clemens 
secured a good series of it in the ix Lanao region of 
central Mindanao. 
NEOLITSEA (BENTH.) MERR. 
Neolitsea intermedia Elm. n. sp. 
Numerously and fastigiately branched shrubs, 3 or more 
meters high, with soft white wood; bark smooth, grayish 
white, that on the twigs covered with a soft yellowish gray 
