720 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 41 
with soft fine hairs; involucral bracts 4, decussately imbricate, 
oval, deeply concave, 6 mm. long, densely puberulent on 
the outer sides, punctate; flowers about 7 in a head, the 
3 mm. long basal portion fleshy, trubinate, densely pubes- 
cent; segments 8, oblong or obovately so, pubescent on the 
back, ciliate along the margins, 2 mm. Jong; staminodes 
numerous, hairy especially toward the more or less thick- 
ened bases, usually curved and clavate at the apices, the 
inner ones as well as the outer ones provided with glands 
toward the bases of the filaments; pistil conspicuous, fleshy, 
only minutely hairy, ovary 1.25 mm. long, neck nearly 2 
mm. long; stigma an irregularly lobed disk; infrutescence 
clustered along the twigs or in the leaf axils, upon short 
lenticelled stalks, their pedicels about 1 em. long; calyx cup 
yellowish, thick, nearly flat, at least 1.5 em. wide across 
the top, constricted into a 1.5 em. long stalk; nuts or 
fruits of a rich deep red when mature, globosely flattened, 
2 cm. across, umbellately clustered upon short thick axillary 
stalks less than 5 mm. long. 
Type specimens 11736 in flower and 10738 in fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Min- 
danao, September and May respectively, 1909. 
Both of these numbers were collected in loose stony soil 
of woods on a steep slope along the Baruring river at 3500 
feet. ''Mabara-an" is their Bagobo name. 
Litsea baracatanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 10 m. high 
or higher, terete but not straight; main branches toward the 
top, the branchlets crooked, the twigs green and slightly 
ascending, the young portion only sparsely puberulent; wood 
moderately soft, dirty yellowish throughout, odorless, bitter; 
bark very smooth, grayish mottled. Leaves alternatingly 
crowded toward the end of the branchlets, horizontally spread- 
ing, glabrous, curvingly conduplicate on the upper shining 
rich green surface, much paler green beneath, the entire 
margins slightly thickened, in the dry state greenish on the 
upper side and pale underneath, frequently the entire blade 
. Slightly curved especially so toward the acute or acuminate 
