SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. Girya. 
apex, the sides inequilateral and the cuneate bases usually 
unequally sided, 2 dm. long without the petioles, 7 cm. 
wide across the middle but often smaller,  obovately 
oblong or oblong, subchartaceous; petiole 2.5 em. long, 
stout, glabrous, nearly black when dry, yellowish green 
when fresh; midrib brown and very prominent beneath, 
with 9 oblique lateral pairs whose tips are reticulately 
united, the coarse cross bars beneath rather faint, the 
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upper surface finely reticulate; bud braets densely cinereous,. 
5 mm. long, acute or acuminate. Inflorescence sparse, usually 
beneath the foliage or from the lowermost leaf axils; peduncle 
usually solitary, divaricate, averaging 1.5 mm. long, sub- 
glabrous, bearing at the apex few to several secondary pedun- 
cles; these are usually a few mm. shorter, yellowish gray 
puberulent, subtended at the base by dense short hairs; invol- 
ucral bracts decussately imbricate, leathery, subrotund, veiry, 
deeply convex, the outer side very finely light yellowish 
puberulent, numerously punctate, at least 6 mm. across; flowers 
several in a head or more, upon 2mm. long and rather thick 
pedicels, soft pubescent; perianth segments few, linearly or 
obovately oblong, 25 mm. long, hairy at the base and along 
the edges toward it; stamens at least 12 besides the short 
stipitate obovoidly rugose inner ones; filaments slender, 2.5 mm. 
long, the inner ones slightly shorter, light yellowish brown 
hairy; outer anthers introrse, 4-celled, the cell lids attached 
to the upper end of the cells, 1 mm. long, basifixed, trun- 
cately rounded at both ends, the inner series also introrse 
but somewhat abortive; ovary glabrous, elongate ellipsoid; 
fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 10998, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Collected in dry fertile soil of a forested ravine along the 
Baracatan creek and at the upper edge of the cogon forma- 
tion at 1500 feet. The Bagobos call it ‘“‘Tioh”. Only one 
tree was observed. 
Litsea segregata Elm. n. sp. . 
Erect tree, with a 10 m. high and 2.5 dm. thick stem; 
branches spreading from above the middle and forming an 
