SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. GrrrNaG. 705 
Represented by number 10473, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. -Apo), 
) . Mindanao, May, 1909. 2 
Cinnamomum mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 10 m. high and 8 dm. thick, 
straight, terete, usually branched from below the middle; main 
branches ascending, freely branched and ultimately num- 
erously rebranched, forming a dense elongated crown; twigs 
lax, slender, somewhat drooping, smooth and green, dark 
brown or blackish in the dry state; wood moderately hard, 
whitish throughout, odorless and tasteless; bark very smooth 
throughout, finely mottled with grayish brown and whit- 
ish blotches on the epidermis, otherwise cinnamon brown 
and similar in taste, readily separating into small slabs, 
nearly 1.5 cm. thick on the stem, only one half as thick on 
the larger branches. Leaves opposite or subopposite, scattered 
along the twigs, the average blades 1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide 
across the middle or a trifle below it, entire, glabrous, ascen- 
dingly spreading, rather numerous, recurved especially toward 
the acute or acuminate apices, curvingly conduplicate on the 
upper dark green and semilucid surface, subglaucous beneath, 
base obtuse or acute and frequently inequilateral, oblong or 
the smaller ones lanceolate; petiole less than 1 cm. long, fre- 
quently only one half as long, brown in the dry state, gla- 
brous; bud bracts cinereous, 4 mm. long; midrid straight 
clear into the apex, its basal lateral pair arising some dis- 
tance above the base and extending two thirds the length of 
the blade, the 1 to 3 secondary lateral pairs arising from 
above the middle and very obscure. Inflorescence divaricate 
or ascending, averaging 15 em. long or less, all the stalks 
smooth and yellowish green, terminal or from the upper- 
most leaf axils, sparingly branched from beneath the middle; 
secondary branches only occasionally rebranched, slender, 
divaricate, bearing at their ends 1 to 2 or even 3 flowers; 
pedicels similar, 6 to 9 mm. long; perianth in anthesis 6 
mm. long, glabrous, the basal one third united and turbin- 
ate; its segments 6, equal, 3.5 mm. long, 2.75 mm. wide, 
oblong, roundly obtuse at apex, very finely ciliate at least 
along the margins, veiny in the middle region, glandularly 
