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wise like the midrib, cross bars few and relatively obscure, 

 reticulations very fine and quite prominent under a lens from 

 the nether side; petiole stout, 5 to 8 mm long, flat and 

 shallowly grooved along the upper side, rusty tomentulose 

 in the early state. Flowers not obtained. Infrutescence sub- 

 erect, terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, 1 to 2 dm 

 long, paniculately branched; stalks on the dry specimens 

 yellowish or grayish short tomentose, divaricately spreading, 

 yellowish green when fresh, flexible, subterete; fruits few 

 clustered toward the distal ends of the relatively short 

 branchlets, shining dark green, subglobose or broadly ellip- 

 soid, nearly 1.5 cm long, when dry almost black and ap- 

 pearing fine blistery, both the apex and the base grayish 

 puberulent, usually 1-seeded; pedicels only a few mm long, 

 subpersistent, densely hairy, stout. 



Type specimen number 13648, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered this perplexing species on a steep densely 

 wooded incline at 3950 feet elevation of Duros peak. "Malig- 

 ting-mota" in Manobo. 



Related to my mount Apo Cryptocarya calelanensis and 

 to my mount Giting-giting Cryptocarya glauciphylla; neither is 

 it Cryptocarya palawancnsis Merr. 



Cryptocarya laevigata Elm. n. sp. 



A gnarly appearing tree; stem 5 dm thick, 10 m high, 

 irregularly round, branched from below the middle; wood 

 bitterish, isabellinus or dark oak color, murky dark brown 

 toward the center; bark 2 cm thick, latericius except the 

 smooth yellowish or grayish white and more or less densely 

 lenticelled surface; main branches spreading, numerously re- 

 branched, the ultimate ones green and ridged, the young 

 tips brown puberulent at least when dry. Leaves pendant, 

 shining lucid green on the upper surface and baked brown 

 when dry, chalky white beneath even in the dry state, en- 

 tire, numerous, alternate, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, ovate 

 to subelliptic, 14 cm long by one half as wide below the 

 middle, apex very abruptly and narrowly acute, broadly ob- 



