722 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE DOTANY [Vor. II, Amr. 41 
elongated crown, the twigs angular; wood slightly yellowish 
white, with dark brown spots throughout, light in weight, 
odorless and tasteless; bark brown, smooth except the len- 
ticels, grayish on the twigs. Leaves alternatingly scattered 
along the slender branchlets, glabrous, ascending, coriaceous, 
shining smooth on the upper side, much paler beneath; 
nearly flat or curvingly conduplicate on the upper side, the 
entire margins subinvolute, drying dark brown on both sides, 
obovately oblong or merely oblong, obtuse to acute at apex, 
obtuse or subcuneate at base, 14 cm. long and 5 cm. wide 
a trifle above the middle; petiole yellowish or whitish green, 
nearly back when dry, glabrous, shallowly caniculate along 
the upper side, upwardly curved, 1.5 cm. Jong; midrib pro- 
minent, with 7 to 9 ascendingly arched lateral pairs, all 
smooth and dark brown, thecross bars very faint. Flowers not 
seen; fruits clustered upon short and thick stalks, sessile or upon 
5 mm. long stout pedicels; calyx brown, scarcely more than 3 
mm. high, 8 mm. across the thinly edged rim, the basal two 
thirds constricted; nuts 2 cm. long, ovoid, hard and pale 4 
green with milk colored spots, ultimately dark red and turn- ; 
ing to a dark wine color, its stone brown, the epidermis | 
rather fleshy. : 
Type specimen 10584, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Only one tree was discovered in fertile soil of woods on 
Angats’ knoll at 3500 feet or higher. The tree was loaded 
with fruits so that some of its branchlets were entirely con- 
cealed by them. The fruits on the same branch varied from 
dark to pale green and bright red to a dull deep wine color. 
"Very pretty: ''Mabara-an" is the native Bagobo name. 
Quite similar to L. sibuyanensis Elm., but leaves with 
fewer nerves, twigs yellowish gray and angular, not in the 
least pubescent at their tips. It cannot be referred to my 
numbers previously distributed under L. luzonica (Blm.) Vil. 
Litsea caesifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect 5 m. high tree; twigs lax, Boritontally 
spreading, greenish, drying nearly black, glabrous; wood odor- 
. less and with bitterish taste, rather soft, yellowish with 
