724 LEAFLETS or PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor..II, Arr. 41 
cending, the acute or acuminate tips slightly recurved, dark 
shining green above, subglaucescent beneath, the veins yellowish 
green, the medium blades 13 em. long, nearly 6 cm. wide across 
the middle or a trifle below it, frequently much smaller, base 
obtuse or subrounded; midrib very prominent beneath, with 5 
to 8 ascendingly arched lateral pairs, the coarse reticulations 
quite evident, all densely covered with a fine fulvous tomentum; | 
petiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, stout, also fulvous; bud bracts a i | 
few mm. long, similar in vestiture. . Inflorescence spicately 
racemose, axillary, ascending, from a few to 5 cm. long; 
densely fulvous, flower bearing or occasionally branched from 
below the middle; peduncles divaricately spreading, nearly 1 
em. long, subtended by acute 3 mm. long bracts which 
. soon fall off; involueral bracts about 6, the outer 2 or 3 | 
larger and nearly 4 mm. long, subrotund or the inner ones | 
narrower, all fulvous pubescent on both sides; flowers usually 
.4 in a head, short stipitate, the perianth similar in vesti- 
ture; fertile stamens 9, with 4-celled introrse anthers; fila- l 
ments hairy at the base, the shorter inner ones alternating . 
with short stipitate rugose glands; pistillode present; young I 
fruits ovoidly ellipsoid, with a mucronate point, one half 
imbedded in the calyx cup, 7 mm. long; cup rather deep, 
its margin quite thin, the basal one third constricted 
into astalk, 8 mm. across the middle, at least 10 mm. high. 
Type specimen 10691, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Twice seen in a dense humid forested basin along the Barur- 
ing river at 3750 feet or more. ‘‘Baga’’ is the local Bagobo name. 
Quite distinct from all other Philippine species and 
apparently it belongs in the section Cylicodaphne. 
Litsea sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A slender tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 12 m. high, terete, 
rather crooked; branches mostly toward the top, horizontal- 
ly spreading, the twigs ascendingly curved, their young 
» . tips soft fulvous pubescent; wood tasteless and odorless, 
. goft, yellowish white; bark smooth, mottled. Leaves ascend- 
ing, alternate, chiefly toward the ends of the branchlets, 
glabrous, shallowly folded upon the upper side, much paler 
