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ticelled; limbs divaricately spreading, the basal ones long, 

 sparingly rebranched, those toward the top rebranched; twigs 

 thick and greenish, chain-like marked, glabrous. Leaves as- 

 cending, conduplicate, the obtusely rounded apex only slightly 

 recurved, subglaucous green beneath, when dry even more 

 white, the upper side curing brownish, a trifle inequilateral 

 but the base very obliquely so, ovately elongated, 5 dm long 

 by 2 dm wide below the middle, glabrous, the entire mar- 

 gins subinvolute in the dry state; midrib yellowish green, 

 also glabrous, flat above, strongly raised beneath, turning 

 black while drying; lateral nerves 19 to 23 pairs, pinnate, 

 tips strongly ascending and almost disappearing, those of the 

 upper nerves interarching, the minute reticulations obscure; 

 petiole nearly 1 cm wide, black when dry, 1.5 cm from the 

 base to the leaf base along one side, twice as long along 

 the other side. Flowers not seen. Fruits densely clustered 

 along the larger branches; stalks varying from 3 to 8 cm 

 long, rigid, glabrous, greenish in the fresh state, bearing 

 few fruits toward the distal ends; calyx cup shining deep 

 green, constricted below the middle, subsessile, irregularly 

 round, when dry radially rugose, margins appearing crenate, 

 2 cm across; nuts flatly globose, greenish white, becoming 

 a trifle thicker than the calyx, shining and glabrous. 



Type specimen number 13316, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 biran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 

 1912. 



Collected in rich soil of damp secondary forests at 500 

 feet altitude and near my headquarters. The Manobos cal- 

 led it "Pepay." 



Distinguished from Litsea gigantifolia Men. by having still 

 larger leaves whose nether side is chalky white instead of 

 yellowish, lateral nerves farther apart, widest below the mid- 

 dle, with an inequilateral oblique base, apex obtusely rounded 

 not acute to acuminate. 



Litsea urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



Also a middle sized tree; stem nearly 6 dm thick, te- 

 rete but somewhat crooked, 13 m high, chiefly branched to- 

 ward the top, nearly straight; wood yellowish, slightly bit- 



