Marcs 27, 19L5] Two Hundred Twenty >ix Nkw Species— II 2723 



smooth and grayish mottled surface; main branches few, 

 sparingly rebranched, long and very slender, spreading. Leaves 

 in whorls 1.5 to 4 dm apart, mostly horizontal or de- 

 scending, diverse in size, flat, subehartnceous, chalky white 

 beneath except the dull yellow or fulvus midrib and Literal 

 nerves, glabrous when old, sublncid above and grayish brown 

 when dry, entire, broadly rounded and usually with a short 

 blunt point at the apex, base broadly obtuse, elliptic or more 

 commonly obovately elliptic, from 2 to 4 dm long without 

 the stalk, 9 to 17 cm wide a trifle above the middle, the 

 young leaves beneath brown hairy but soon becoming gla- 

 brous; midrib very stout beneath and in the early state 

 dark toraentose, nearly flat on the upper side, brown on 

 both sides; lateral nerves similar in color, about 9 on each 

 side, ascending and gradually curved, relatively prominent 

 on both sides, cross liars quite evident from beneath only, 

 under a lens both surfaces but especially the upper side ap- 

 pearing very minutely reticulate; petiole 3 to 5 cm long, 

 very thick and somewhat compressed, in the early state 

 short fulvus tomentose, the upper side shallowly grooved and 

 more nearly glabrous. Flowers not seen. Fruits clustered 

 along the brancblets, upon short woody tubercles, ellipsoid, 

 1.25 to 2.25 cm long, turning from green to yellow and 

 finally deep vermillion red; cups 1 to 1.25 cm across, flat, 

 greenish, glabrous, persistent, constricted at the base, upon 

 short and thick pedicels. 



Type specimen number 13961, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Collected in humus covered soil among stones of deep 

 woods in the Catangan creek gulch at 3000 feet above sea 

 level. The Manobo name is "Hannag." 



Litsea macrophyila Elm. n. sp. 



A rather small and widely spreading tree; stem sub- 

 terete, 4.5 dm thick, crooked, 12 m high, buttressed at the 

 base, branched toward the top; wood very soft, without odor 

 or taste, dingy or yellowish white except the musty nearly 

 black central portion; bark thick, dark brown, densely len- 



