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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 41 
beneath; fruits clustered along the rather slender branchlets, 
upon 0.5 inch long and thick rufous brown stalks, spreading; 
cup green or becoming scurfy brown with age, 0.5 inch deep, 
as wide across the top; nuts fully 1 inch long, olive green, 
with minute white spots, more tapering toward the nipple- 
Shaped apex. ''Balelad" is the local Visayan name. 
Represented by number 12193, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Litsea fulva (Blm.) Vil. 
Field-note:—An erect shrub-like tree, in compact well 
drained soil of shrubberies bordering grassy glens at 500 feet; 
stem 16 feet high, 5 inches thick; branches divaricate, from 
below the middle, slender, rebranched; wood soft, yellowish, 
with neither odor nor taste; bark smooth, dark brown or, 
blotched with gray; leaves coriaceous or subchartaceous, tips 
only recurved, flat, ascending or horizontal, shining deep green 
above, subglaucescent beneath; infrutescence in small clust- 
ers along the branchlets, subglobose or a trifle thicker above 
the middle, less than 0.5 inch thick, pale yellow but ultim- 
ately turning shining red; the saucer-shaped calyx green and 
persistent after the nuts have fallen. 
Represented by number 12118, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Litsea griseola Elm. 
Field-note:— Tree, 30 to 40 feet high, in damp soil of 
the forested basin at 4000 feet; trunk 1.5 foot thick; wood 
soft, yellowish throughout, odorless and tasteless; bark thick, 
reddish, yellowish}just beneath the thinly checked grayish 
brown epidermis; limbs rather long, few and thick; leaves 
1 to 3 feet long, but on some other trees much smaller, 
descendingly recurved, rigid, curvingly conduplicate on the 
upper side, glaucescent beneath, mostly crowded toward the 
ends of the twigs, obscurely arranged in yearly subwhorls, 
. the internodes covered with leaf-like bracts; inflorescence ascend- 
ing, upon 8 to 5 inches long stalks from the lower leaf axils or 
from the axils of their scars; the flowers yellowish, somewhat 
