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

 ust, 1912. 



Collected in a wet forested flat at 500 feet above the 

 sea. The Manobo vernacular name is "Dila-maok." 



Critically related to Litsea albayana Vid., Litsea oblongi- 

 folia Merr. and Litsea ceasifolia Elm. 





Litsea velutina Elm. n. sp. 



Quite a good sized tree; trunk 5 dm thick, terete, 

 crooked, 14 m high, its first branches a little above the 

 middle; wood soft, yellowish, odorless and tasteless, light 

 in specific gravity; bark thick, smooth and dull brown on 

 the surface, testaceus otherwise; main branches ascending 

 and widely spreading, ultimately freely rebranched; branch- 

 lets dark brown, ascending, more or less angular and striate, 

 dark brown puberulent. Leaves copious, persistent, opposite 

 or subopposite, mostly horizontally spreading, coriaceous or 

 subchartaceous, flat, shining deep green on the upper sur- 

 face, paler or subglaucous green beneath, curing dark brown 

 on the upper glabrous side, much lighter brown on the 

 nether or subvelutiuous side, very smooth, apex acute, base 

 broadly obtuse, ovately elliptic or subelliptic, the velutinous 

 brown covering on the under side disappearing in the old 

 leaves and becoming chalky white beneath, the entire edges 

 subinvolute in the dry state, the average ones 10 to 12 cm 

 long and 4 to 5 cm wide across the middle or a trifle be- 

 low it; midrib nearly flat above, light brown velvety cover- 

 ed in the early state, soon wearing glabrous, very prominent 

 beneath; lateral nerves pinnate, parallel, almost straight, 

 tips ascendingly curved and gradually disappearing, sub- 

 oblique, cross bars rather numerous and relatively faint; 

 petiole 5 to 8 mm long, drying blackish brown, pulveru- 

 lent, thick especially toward the ascendingly curved base. 

 Young inflorescence glomerated from the leaf axils, scarcely 

 longer than 1 cm; bud pedicels 2 mm long, relatively very 

 thick, deep rufus pubescent; involucral bracts 4, in 2 op- 

 posite pairs; the outer pair larger, arching over the inner 

 pair though alternate with it, 2 mm long, short rufus pubes- 

 jnt on the exterior, spoon shaped, broadly oblong or ellip- 



