716 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 41 
at 1500 feet, along the Baracatan creek; stem 2 feet thick, 
crooked, only branched toward. the top; wood soft, yellow- 
-ish throughout, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, grayish 
white; branches crooked and widely spreading; the branchlets 
green, smooth; leaves thinly coriaceous, recurvingly descend- 
ing, lucid dark green on the upper conduplicate surface, 
much lighter green beneath; the petiole and prominent veins 
beneath yellowish green; infrutescence ascending, from the 
uppermost leaf axils; stalks a few inches long or even 0.5 
foot, yellowish green, the calyx deeper green; fruits green 
with white spots especially toward the apex, when mature 
dark wine color, oblong elliptish, less than 0,5 inch long. 
""Katel'" is the native Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 10961, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Litsea membranacea Elm. 
Field-note:—A small erect tree, on nearly precipitous 
flanks of the Baruring river at 3000 feet; stem 20 feet high, 
5 inches thick, with few rather short branches at the top; 
the branches forming a flat crown, subverticillately branched; 
bark smooth, brown, gray on the branches; wood soft, yellow- 
ish, light, odorless but with a bitterish taste; leaves char- 
taceous, horizontally spreading, upon ascending grayish petioles, . | 
much lighter green beneath, the nerves yellowish, only 4 
shallowly conduplicate on the upper surface; fruits clustered 
along the rather thick branchlets, upon short woody tubercles; 
nuts shallowly set in upon the calyx, broadly ellipsoid, 1 
inch long, 0.75 inch thick, turning pale yellow prior to 
becoming dark crimson red, thinly checked, upon short thick 
stalks. ‘‘Mabara-an’’ is the vernacular Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 10811, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Litsea tayabensis Elm. ca 
Field-note:—Small tree, 15 to 25 feet high, with a 
7 inches thick stem, in low interlaced woods at 7500 feet 
of mount Apo; bark dull brown, roughened with wart-like 
