LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 



Vol. VIII. Manila, P. I., March 27, 1915. Art. 115. 



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Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species — II * 

 by 

 A. D. E. Elmer 



LAURACEAE 



Cryptocarya intermedia Elm. n. sp. 



A medium sized tree; stem 3 dm thick, 12 m high, terete, 

 straight, buttressed at the base, chiefly branched toward the 

 top; wood moderately hard, dingy white, yellow in the cen- 

 ter, a trifle bitter, odorless; bark smooth and brown, rather 

 thick; main branches ascending, the ultimate ones dark green 

 and numerous; twigs angular and fluted along their sides, the 

 young tips densely brown puberulent or pulverulent. Leaves 

 also numerous, alternate, subchartaceous, glabrous except the 

 larger nerves beneath, dull green on the shallowly condu- 

 plicate surface, paler green beneath, brown on both sides 

 when dry, the acute to subcuneate apex recurved, base 

 broadly cuneate to obtuse, the average blades 13 cm long by 4 

 cm wide at the middle, elongated or the smaller ones broad- 

 ly lanceolate; midrib very prominent and reddish brown when 

 dry, usually puberulent or glabrate, shallowly sunken along 

 the upper surface; lateral nerves of 4 to 6 alternating pairs, 

 very oblique and almost straight, tips disappearing, other- 



Note, — Proof read by Emma 0. Elmer. 

 * Continued from article 114. 



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