SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. GrriNG. 125 
or glaucous green beneath, rigidly coriaceous, drying dark 
brown or dull steel blue beneath, the larger blades 18 cm. 
long, nearly 5 cm. wide across the middle, the entire margins 
subinvolute in the dry state at least, apex obtuse, base 
cuneate to obtuse; midrib prominently raised beneath, grooved 
above, in the young state thinly covered with a tomentum 
especially along the upper side, glabrous otherwise, with 9 to 
11 ascending lateral pairs, their tips arcuate but scarcely 
united, reddish brown as is also the midrib, cross bars rather 
numerous and quite in evidence; petiole 1.5 to 2 em. long, 
yellowish tomentose especially along the upper Side, soon 
becoming glabrous; bud bract 5 mm. long, densely pubes- 
cent with light fulvous brown hairs. Inflorescence in small 
fascicles, in the lowermost leaf axils or in the axils of their scars; 
peduncle 1 to 1.5 cm. long, finely yellowish gray pubescent, 
subtended at the base by very short brown bracts which 
are densely pubescent; involucral bracts subrotund, about 5, 
|. deeply concave, 5 mm. long, imbricate, the outer or the 
exposed sides with fine crisp hairs and edges glabrous, the 
inner ones sericeous on the back and ciliate on the margins; 
flowers about 5 in each head, subsessile or in full anthesis 
stipitate; perianth segments linear lanceolate, varying from 
1.5 to 2.5 mm. long, united at the base, long ciliate along 
the margins; stamens with 9 fertile and a sterile series; 
filaments rather thick and crinked in the bud state, slender, 
7 mm. long, long ciliate especially toward the base, spread- 
ing and interlaced, at the base intermixed with numerous 
yellowish brown hairs, the inner series alternating with short 
stipitate rugose glands; fertile anthers all introrse, 4-celled, 
truncate at both ends, equal in shape and size, 1.25 mm. 
wide and 1.75 mm. long, the lower cells larger and more 
lateral, the lids attached to the upper end of the pockets; 
pistillode glabrous; ovary subellipsoid; style 2 mm. long, 
bearing a papillate stigma; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 12536, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in moist rocky soil of densely wooded banks of 
the Sinuban creek at 750 feet. Only once seen. 
— It differs in a number of obvious characters from L. 
ecco Merr. 
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