LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. II. Manila, P. I., September 23, 1910. — Art. 41. 
LAURACEAE FROM MT. APO AND MT. 
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BEILSCHMIEDIA Nees 
Beilschmiedia purpurea Elm. n. sp. 
A burly appearing tree; stem 10 m. high, 4.5 em. thick, 
with its crooked and rigid main branches mainly toward the 
top; twigs relatively short, also rigid, suberect ; wood odorless, 
bitter, the sapwood yellow, dark brown toward the center, 
moderately hard and burly; bark light gray, smooth or peel- 
ing in small irregular dry plates, thick, yellowish beneath the - 
epidermis, light or yellowish gray on the branchlets. Leaves 
crowded at the ends, spreading, descending mostly, curved and 
strongly conduplicate on the upper lucid and darker green 
surface, upon ascending petioles, thinly coriaceous, curing dull 
brown, glabrous, alternate or subopposite, entire, obtuse to 
acute at the recurved apex, base cuneate to broadly obtuse, oblong 
or frequently ovately oblong, 16 cm. long and 6 cm. wide in the 
average blades; petiole brown, glabrous, 1 cm. long, midrib 
prominent, with 7 to 9 lateral pairs, reticulations quite pro- 
minent especially on the lower side; bud bracts glabrous, 
