SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mt. Apo AND Mr. GrriNG. 715 
beneath, drying brown, alternate, the younger ones evenly co- 
à vered beneath with a short appressed olivaceous pubescence, ulti- 
| mately becoming glabrous, the average blade 1 dm. long, 4 cm. 
wide across the middle, acute to acuminate, rounded at the 
base, entire; petiole 2 mm. long, glabrous cr in the young state 
olivaceous puberulent, caniculate along the upper side; mid- 
vein prominent beneath, with 7 to 9 lateral ascendingly curved 
pairs, reticulations coarse and obscure. Inflorescence axillary, 
ascending, racemosely spicate; rachis 1.5 cm. long, appressed 
yellowish brown pubescent, angular; pedicels or secondary 
branches divaricate, 5 mm. long, similarly pubescent, sub- 
tended by very brief bracts or none; flowers 7 to 9 in 
each head; involucral bracts globose in the bud state, 3 mm. 
across, early falling, imbricate, the outer more or less pub- 
escent on the high convex side, the inner ones a trifle smaller. 
and glabrous, rotund, finely punctate glandular; pedicels 
proper 2 mm. long, hairy; perianth of about 4 to 6 lobes 
which are more or less unequal in length, the basal one 
M third united, glabrous or the dorsal basal portion hairy, 
the longer ones 2 mm. in the length, 6 fertile and 6 sterile; 
filaments of the outer or fertile series 0.83 mm. long, glabrous; 
anthers introrse 2-celled, laterally dehiscent, 0.75 mm. long, 
broadly truncate at the apex, obscurely tapering into the 
filament at the base; the inner ones much shorter, the entire 
| short filaments surrounded by the light yellow rugose glands; 
| pistillode not seen; fruits not known. 
| Type specimen 11640, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Discovered in fertile humid forests at 4000 feet. The 
tree has a very characteristic appearance by the abrupt 
termination of its bole and slender divaricate main 
branches which bear rather numerous and relatively short 
branchlets. Quite distinct from the general aspect of 
Litsea trees in the same locality. The Bagobos call it 
*'Sarerab". 
wu p— 
LITSEA Lam. 
Litsea perrottetii (Blm.) Vil. 
Field-note:—A 55 feet high tree, on a dry forested ridge 
