SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. GrriNa. 718 
which easily rubs off, the inner portion of the exocarp 
green, the single seed with 2 cotyledones, reddish on the 
. outside, its meat white and with a few viscid brown con- 
volutions, with a strong rather pleasant odor. 
-~ Type specimen 12420, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
Discovered along cliffs of the Pauala river at 1750 feet, 
near the base of the numerous waterfalls from Giting-giting 
or fingered summit peaks. ''Maye-mayebas" is the Visayan 
name. 
ITEADAPHNE Bim. 
Iteadaphne philippinense Elm. n. sp. 
Large tree; stem 25 m. high, at least 1 m. thick; main 
brancbes arising from above the middle, the branches crook- 
edly rebranched; twigs numerous, bendable, erect, compara- 
tively short, roughened by the old leaf scars, yellowish 
gray except the green very young tips; wood moderately 
soft, yellowish, streaked with brown, odorless but with a 
slight bitter taste; bark brown, gray on the larger branches, 
thick, scaling in thin plates, reddish brown beneath the 
epidermis. Leaves more or less grouped in whorls, copious, 
ascending, rigidly coriaceous, pale green above, glaucous 
beneath, frequently twisted toward the obtuse or acute and 
slightly recurved tips, obtuse or cuneate at the base which | 
is occasionally slightly inequilateral, glabrous, the entire 
margin subinvolute, quite inequal in size, the medium ones 5 
to 8 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide across the middle or slightly above it, 
oblong or oblongish to oblanceolate, the upper lucid side leather 
brown in the dry state; midvein brown and conspicuous 
beneath, impressed on the upper side, the divaricate 5 to 7 
lateral pairs obscure and with their ends reticulately united; 
petiole 0.75 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, dark brown when 
dry; bud bracts 4 mm. long, rigid, glabrous or only the mar- 
gins finely puberulent, deeply folded upon the upper side. 
Inflorescence asising from the uppermost leaf axils, ascending, 
3 to 5 em. long, short paniculately branched especially toward 
