712 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Amr. 41 
lateral ones, eross bars and reticulations quite obscure; petiole 
stout, dark brown in the dry state, 1 cm. long or longer, 
the upper grooved side frequently glaucous. Flowers not seen; 
infrutescence terminal or subterminal, 15 em. long, sparingly 
branched from the middle; the branches stout, woody, lenti- 
celled, usually upwardly curved; fruit sessile, at least 2.5 cm. 
long, ovately fusiform from the side view, hard, heavy, coal 
black, shining, containing a solitary seed of 2 cotyledones. 
Type specimen 12131, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 
1910. 
This hardwood tree was collected in moist clayey soil 
of the wooded banks along the Pauala river at 750 feet. Named 
in honor of D. Sebastian Vidal y Soler, a distinguished botanist. 
It has the exact foliage of typical Cryptocarya acuminata 
Merr., but with entirely different fruits. Compare the leaves 
with C. glauciphylla Elm. which was collected one month later 
and no more than a few rods lower down the river. 
Endiandra gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Tree of medium size; stem nearly 3 dm. thick, 10 m. 
high; its main branches toward the top only, divided into many 
branchlets, the ultimate ones suberect and with their tips of 
a fine olivaceous appressed puberulence; wood soft, yellowish 
white, tasteless, with a distinct lead-pencil odor, light; bark mot- 
tled, smoothish, deep brown beneath theepidermis. Leaves alter- 
natingly crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, ascending or 
. horizontally spreading, coriaceous, glabrous, dull green above, a 
trifle paler beneath, drying brown, nearly flat or shallowly folded 
upon the upper side, oblong, entire, the normal ones 1 dm. long, 
4 em. wide across the middle, frequently much smaller, apex 
acute, base cuneate, conspicuously reticulate on both sides; mid- 
rib prominent, grooved along the upper side, with rather faint 7 
to 9 lateral pairs whose tips are more or less arched and united; 
petiole 7.5 mm. long, stout, caniculate on the upper side, 
when young finely puberulent, otherwise glabrous. Flowers 
not seen; fruits upon solitary or few-branched 2 cm. long, 
stalks, ellipsoid, 2.5 cm. long, shining deep green and hard, 
the mature ones purplish black with a subglaucous bloom 
