SEPTEMBER 23, 1910] LAURACEAE FROM Mr. Apo AND Mr. Girma. 727 
Neolitsea apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree; stem 4 m. high, 8 cm. thick; branches 
mainly above the middle, laxly spreading, the ultimate tips 
erect or ascending, densely covered with an umber brown 
tomentum; wood odorless and tasteless, rather soft, yellow; 
bark smooth, mostly brown. Leaves ascendingly spreading, 
whorled as are also the twigs, chartaceous, of a rich shining 
green on the upper side except the midrib, glaucescent and 
glabrous beneath except the midrib, mostly flat or only 
slightly recurved, the average blades 1 dm. long by 8 em. 
wide across the middle or a trifle above it, the entire mar- 
gins minutely involute in the dry state, the upper surface 
brown when dry, obtuse or occasionally acutish at the 
apex, base subcuneate or acute, oblong or more obovately 
oblong; midrib prominent beneath and tomentose toward 
the base and along the upper impressed side; lateral nerves 
7 to 10 on each side, ascendingly arched, their tips usually 
| united, cross bars very faint; petiole 1 cm. long, densely 
ad tomentose, becoming glabrate especially along the upper side; 
bud bract 4 mm. long, brown, pubescent on the outer side. 
Flowers not seen; infrutescence scattered along the branchlets, 
in sessile clusters or solitary; fruit yellow, 2 cm. long, obovoid, 
set upon a thick rounded calyx rim, nearly 1 cm. across at 
the top and which at the base is abruptly constricted into a 
very short stalk. 
Type specimen 11255, 4. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
This slender tree was discovered on a moist forested ridge 
at 3500 feet of mount Calelan. The vernacular Bagobo name 
is "Mabara-an". 
Not N. villosa (Blm.) Merr. because of obtuse not acuminate 
leaves which are less pubescent and have more numerous 
lateral nerves. Also distinct from N. intermedia Elm. 
PHOEBE Nees 
ns Phoebe sterculioides (Elm.) Merr. 
Field-note:—A 40 to 60 feet high tree, in dense moist 
forests north of the Baruring river at 3750 feet; branches 
