SEPTEMBER 12, 1908] Some INTERESTING LAURACEAE 383 
tomentum; ultimate branchlets subverticellate. Leaves simil- 
arly arranged, from 3 to 7 or even 11 in a whorl, lascending, 
subcoriaceous with wavy margins, glaucous green beneath, 
lucid and glabrous above, when young covered beneath with 
a dirty white floccose pubescence which with age may entirely 
disappear, oblanceolate, 18 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, apex 
| obtuse, base acute, gradually tapering towards both ends; 
nerves 9 to 13 on each side of the prominent midvein; 
petiole quite thick, fluted, about 2 cm. long, densely cov- 
ered with a light brown pubescence. Inflorescence in small 
clusters along the second year old twigs, 7 to 11-flowered, 
never more than 15 mm. long; peduncles 4 mm. long, 
radially spreading, densely brown pubescent, subtended at 
1 the base by minute dry scales; pedicels about as long, 
| umbellulately 1 to 3-clustered upon the peduncles; calyx 4 
mm. long, gradually tapering into the pedicel, pubescent 
on the interior; perianth of 5 to 6 segments, the segments 
ovate to orbicular, 2 mm. long, tomentose on the lower 
side, rotately spreading; sterile stamens alternating with 
the perianth segments and inserted upon its throat; ovary 
cup stipitate, sparsely ciliate, the stigma only slightly pro- 
truding; fruits obovoid, ripening and turning yellow from 
apex to base; cup persistent, thick, yellowish green. 
Type specimen 8832, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
On a dry barren ridge along the trail two miles above 
Sablan. The Igorrotes call it Basog. It has the leaves of 
N. vidalii Merr. and the inflorescence of N. zeylanica C. 
et N., but the Philippine specimens called by the latter 
name have smaller more glabrous and acuminate leaves. 
PERSEA PLUM. 
Persea (Alseodaphne) leytensis Elm. n. sp. 
4 Tree, 6 m. high, with a round toppeed crown; branches 
[ rigid, warty, covered with grayish white bark. Leaves usually 
crowded towards the ends of the twigs, coriaceous, unequal, 
the smaller ones oblanceolate and with acuminate apices, the 
larger ones obovate, apex abruptly acute, base obtuse or 
acute, 18 cm. long, 8 cm. wide above the middle, darker green 
