726 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 41 
NEOLITSEA (Benth.) Merr. 
Neolitsea villosa (Blm.) Merr. 
Field-note:—4A small shrub-like tree, in dense woods 
along a ridge at 4000 feet of mount Calelan; stem 12 feet 
high, a few inches thick; smooth bark mottled; wood soft, 
somewhat yellowish white, odorless and tasteless; branches 
mainly at the top, rigid and crookedly rebranched; leaves 
ascendingly whorled, flat or when old their sides strongly 
subeurved, rigidly coriaceous, shining green on the upper 
dull green surface, glaucescent beneath; fruits in small clusters 
from the fallen leaf axils along the twigs, set into thick 
sessile brownish green calyces; nut globose, fully 0.5 inch 
thick, green but begining to turn yellow from the apex. 
"Mabara-an" is the Bagobo name for it. 
Represented by number 10796, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Neolitsea vidalii Merr. 
Field-note for 10963:—Slender tree, 35 feet high, with 
an 8 inches thick stem, in fertile soil of dry woods on the 
edge of the Baracatan creek at 1500 feet; branches above 
the middle, forming an elongated crown; wood softish, odor- 
less and tasteless, yellowish; bark smooth, mottled; branchlets 
crooked, rather slender, twigs green; leaves always in whorls, 
scattered along the branchlets, upon ascending petioles, radial- 
ly spreading, curvingly conduplicate on the upper side, 
glaucous green beneath, the margins wavy; fruits clustered 
in the lower leaf axils or along the branches, stalks and 
cup yellowish green; nuts green, spotted with white dots, 
turning yellowish at the apex. The Bagobos call the form- 
er number ''Mabara-aa". The Visayan the latter number 
*“*Salingwak’’. | 
Represented by number 10963, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. Also number 12409, Elmer, Magallanes 
(Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
