j SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] -LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. Grimme. 109 
Cryptocarya todayensis Elm. n. sp. 
i A tall tree; stem 25 m. high, nearly 1 m. thick, terete, 
| straight; its main branches widely spreading toward the top, 
numerously rebranched toward the ends and forming dense 
masses; the twigs green, blackish and angular in the dry 
state, short cinnamon brown puberulent on the young twigs 
but soon wearing glabrous; wood moderately hard, pale white 
or somewhat yellowish, odorless, bitterish, rather nice to 
work; bark smooth, brown lenticelled, thick, reddish beneath 
the epidermis. Leaves descending, submembranous, shining 
lucid green on the upper curvingly conduplicate side, acuminate 
or subcaudate, tips recurved and usually curved to one side, 
beneath glaucous, the young leaves light or yellowish green, 
glabrous, numerous, alternate, scattered along the branchlets, 
blades 8 cm. long, 3 em. wide across the middle or below 
it, margins entire and faintly involute in the brown dry 
state, oblong to ovately oblong or the smaller blades broad- 
ly lanceolate, base abruptly cuneate or obtusely rounded and 
usually inequilateral; petiole less than 1 cm. long, brown, 
when young finely puberulent; midrib prominent beneath, the 
main lateral pair arising 5 mm. from the base and extend- 
ing two thirds the length of the blade, with 1 or 2 minor 
pairs arising from above the middle, reticulations faint. In- 
florescence terminal or terminating lateral branchlets, sub- 
erect, 5 to 8 cm. long, branched from near the base or from . 
the middle, densely olivaceous puberulent, the branchlets rather 
short; flowers sessile or subsessile, subtended by 1 mm. long pu- 
bescent bracts; calyx 8 mm long, punctate, short hairy on the 
outside, the basal one third turbinate; segments 6, equal, 1.5 
mm. long, ovate; stamens 9, fertile, the outer 6 introrse, ap- 
parently the middle series of 3 extrorse and with glandular ap- 
4 . pendages on their sides, the inner series of 3 with large ovately 
f acuminate and apparently sterile anthers; filaments short, flat- 
tened, more or less hairy; anthers triangularly ovate, 2-celled; 
pistil glabrous; ovary elongate ellipsoid; style 1.25 mm. long, 
. bearing an irregularly lobed or rugose stigma; fruit not seen. 
Type specimens 10713 and 11919, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May and October 
respectively, 1909. 
