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SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] > . LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Aro AND Mr. GrriNG. 
brown streaks; bark mottled, warty toward the top and 
along the branches. Leaves nearly flat, horizontally spread- 
ing, chartaceous, dull green above, yellowish so beneath or 
caesius in the dry state, alternatingly scattered, narrowly oblong 
or broadly oblanceolate, entire, commonly 2 dm. long by 6 
cm. wide across the middle, cuneate at the base, apex nor- 
mally acute to acuminate, only occasionally obtuse, glab- 
rous; midrib prominent beneath, glabrous, nearly black when 
dry, with 7 to 11 lateral ascendingly curved pairs whose tips 
toward the apex plainly interarch;  reticulations obscure 
beneath, very fine and quite evident on the upper side; 
petiole 1 cm. long or longer, glabrous, similar in color when 
dry; bud bract 5 mm. long, finely fulvous pubescent on the 
outside. Flowers not seen; fruits axillary or along the twigs, 1 to 
3 or even more clustered, the short thick stalks only sparingly re- 
branched; calyx cup yellowish green, rugose, with scattered 
brown lenticels, 1.5 em. long, the basal one half constricted 
into a stout pedicel, nearly as wide across the thin rim; 
mature fruit or nut very deep wine red, globosely flattened 
at both ends, 2.5 cm. across, smooth and shining. 
Type specimen 10853, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Collected on a dry wooded ridge of rather fertile compact 
soil at 3250 feet, south of the Baruring river. ''Mabara-an" 
is the Bagobo name. Only one tree was observed during 
my several month's collecting. 
Leaves exactly as in L. penangiana Hook., but fruits 
differently shaped and at least twice as large. 
Litsea perfulva Elm. n. sp. 
723 
A medium sized tree, 15 to 20 m. high, about 8 dm. 
thick; branches crooked and widely spreading toward the 
top, twigs suberect, the apical portion densely fulvous; wood 
heavy, hard, burly, yellowish, bitter and with a slight green- 
ish odor; bark brown, checked, reddish beneath the outer 
layer. Leaves usually alternate, scattered, ovately oblong to 
broadly lanceolate, the entire margins subinvolute in the 
dry state, unequal in size, glabrous and conduplicate on the 
upper side, beneath short but densely fulvous tomentose, as- 
