SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. GrriNG. ' "UE 
odorous. The foliaceous strongly curved bracts of the twigs 
and inflorescence inhabited by numerous small brown ants. 
: '"Gofa" is the name given to it by the Bagobo. 
| Inflorescence ascending, 6 to 10 cm. long, from the lower 
leaf axils or from the axils of their scars; rachis angular, 
| with a fine appressed puberulence, stout, strict, abruptly 
terminating, its pedicels never exceeding 1 cm. in length 
and subtended by 1 em. long bracts; involucral bracts about 
4, short tomentulose as are also the bracts, broadly elliptic, 
6 to 8 mm. long; flowers yellowish, somewhat odorous, sev- 
eral in a head; perianth 7 mm. long, the basal 4 mm. stip- 
itately tapering, usually 5-segmented; segments oblong, obtuse- 
ly rounded at apex, hairy on the back as well as the tube, 
about 8 mm. long; staminodes many, with or without much 
thickened lateral glands, the short stalks usually somewhat hairy, 
the outer ones filiform; pistil glabrous, 3 mm. long, the ovary 
ellipsoid and gradually extending into the 1.5 mm. long neck. 
Represented by number 10470, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo): 
3 Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Litsea baruringensis Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 10 m. high at least, 3 dm. 
thick; branches mostly toward the top, few, comparatively 
short, erookedly rebranched; twigs dull green or soon turn- : 
ing brownish on the upper side, entirely glabrous; wood 
soft, yellowish with black streaks, odorless and tasteless. 
Leaves alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, descend- 
ing, chartaceons, | folded on the upper deeper green surface, 
glabrous, the entire margins somewhat wavy, the acute to 
acuminate apex occasionally subfalcate and always recurved, 
curing dull brown, base rounded or obtuse and slightly 
inequilateral, nearly 2 dm. long and 5 to 8 em. wide across 
the middle, beneath paler green or glaucescent, oblong; 
midrib yellowish green, brown when dry, conspicuous beneath, 
with 11 to 13 ascending lateral pairs, the tips of the lateral 
ones strongly arched, reticulations coarse and faint; petiole glab- 
rous, stout, 2 cm. long or Jess; bud bracts 5 mm. long, grayish 
brown, subglabrous, acute. Peduncle 6 mm. long, strict, 
puberulent, at the base subtended by conspicuous scars fringed 
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