SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mt. Apo AND Mr. Gitta. 
exerescences; wood soft, yellowish, light, without odor or 
taste; branches spreading, soft brown pubescent; leaves coria- 
ceous, also in whorls, characteristically descending, shining 
deep green above, glaucescently green beneath, the veins 
yellowish green, the edges above the middle more or less 
wavy and with a twisted apex, recurved, otherwise flat; 
fruits upon short rigid stalks on the second or third year 
old branchlets, globose, shining green, then bright yellow 
and when falling bright red and 0.75 inch in diameter. 
Again this is known to the Bagobos as “‘Mabara-an’’. 
Represented by number 11526, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Can this be a species of Neolitsea? 
Litsea quercoides Elm. 
Field-note for 10687:—Tree, 25 feet high, in a somewhat 
swampy region of dense woods south of the Baruring river 
at 3500 feet; branches spreading, mostly at the top; wood 
very soft, yellowish throughout; bark smooth, mottled; leaves 
rigid, thick, ascending, slightly conduplicate on the upper 
shining green surface, glaucous green  beneatb; petioles 
strongly curved; fruits young, clustered along the twigs, upon 
short thick brown stalks 1 inch long, the basal portion some- 
what flattened, obpyriform, more or less lenticelled; nuts 
entirely enclosed in the yellowish green calyces. Both of these 
specimens the Bagobos call “‘Mabara-an’’. 
Represented by numbers 10678 and 11247, Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), Mindanao, July and May respectively, 1909. 
Litsea philippinensis Merr. 
Field-note:—A medium sized tree, in gravelly or stony 
soil of moist woods along the Sinuban creek at 750 feet; stem 
40 feet high, 1.5 foot thick, branched toward the top only; 
wood soft, yellowish, tasteless, of an unpleasant sourish odor, 
light; bark smoothish, grayish mottled; branches forming a 
widely spreading flat crown, with suberect twigs; leaves 
chartaceous, mostly ascending, flat or the sides curved upon 
the upper dull deeper green surface, with yellowish veins 
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