SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. Girme. 
fertile and with 6 glands, the outer row of 6 introrse and 
alternating with the glands, the central series of 3 with 
extrorse anthers. 
Type specimen 12505, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Named after Andreas Naves, an Augustinian priest and botanist. 
Cryptocarya calelanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Erect tree; stem 6 dm. thick, 15 m. high; its main bran- 
ches arising from above the middle, ascending, ultimately 
numerously branched and spreading; wood moderately soft 
or hard, burly, white, tasteless, with a faint pepper green 
odor; bark thick, reddish brown beneath the brown 
epidermis, gray and sparsely lenticelled on the branches. 
Leaves coriaceous, horizontal or descending, dull green on 
the upper shallowly folded side, much lighter green or yel- 
lowish so beneath, turning brown when dry, glabrous, alter- 
natingly scattered along the branchlets, oblong or ovately 
oblong, 12 cm. long, 5 cm. wide across the middle or below 
it, the acuminate tips usually recurved, the entire margins 
slightly turned upon the under side in the dry state, base 
obtuse or subrotund or occasionally inequilaterally acute, the. 
midrib with about 5 ascending lateral pairs, the reticulations 
obscure; petiole 1.5 cm. long, glabrous. Flowers not seen; 
infrutescent stalks yellowish, suberect, 6 to 10 cm. long or 
much shorter, glabrous, occasionally short branched above 
the middle; fruits very dark green, ellipsoid, 1 cm. long, 7 
mm. thick across the middle, abruptly constricted into a 
distinet basal stalk, short conical toward the apex, the cir- 
cular apex with a short mucronate point. 
Type specimen 11160, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. | 
This fine tree was discovered in rich humus covered soil 
at 3750 feet on mount Calelan in a moist densely forested 
flat. This also the Bagobos call ‘‘Mabara-an’’, 
Cryptocarya subvelutina Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 10 m. high, 3 dm. thick, 
branched above the middle; wood moderately hard, reddish 
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