March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2727 



tic, very thick and rigid; the inner pair also pubescent on 

 the exposed surface, all 4 more or less united at the base; 

 young flower clusters in 4, pubescent. Infrutescence from 

 the axils of the leaf scars along the branchlets, ascending, 

 few clustered, stalks very thick and short; fruiting cup green, 

 1 cm across the truncate apex, the same in length, stipitate 

 at the base; young nuts darker green and with minute milk 

 spots, when fully mature dark or deep red and shining, 

 short ellipsoid, 1 cm in length, 1-seeded. 



Type specimen number 14189, A. D. E. Elmer t Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered this very distinct Litsea in damp stony ground 

 of a forested incline at 5250 feet altitude and on the general 

 route from lake Danao to the summit region of mount 

 Urdaneta. Only one tree was detected. Its Manobo name 

 is "Sungsung." 



Persea pyriformis Elm. n. sp. 



Only a small or middle sized tree; stem 3 dm thick, 8 

 m high, branched from the middle; wood soft and coarse, 

 odorless and without taste, dingy white; bark thick, blackish 

 brown on the densely checked epidermis, the central por- 

 tion brown, the inner side white; main branches widely 

 spreading and ultimately freely rebranched; the twigs green 

 and smooth, terete, turning almost black while drying^ 

 rather slender. Leaves descending, curvingly folded upon 

 the upper darker green surface, thinly coriaceous, subglau- 

 cous green beneath, opposite or subopposite ; glabrous, well 

 scattered, exceedingly variable in size, the abruptly and 

 sharply acute point recurved and frequently subfalcate, base 

 broadly obtuse or rounded, entire margins subinvolute in 

 the dry state, oblong or ovately oblong, 1 to 2 dm long 

 by 4 to 9 cm wide at the middle; petiole 1 to 2 

 cm long, blackish brown, glabrous, caniculate, compara- 

 tively slender; midrib raised beneath, smooth, reddish 

 brown when dry; lateral nerves 3 on each side whether of 

 small or large blades, the basal pair arising 5 mm from 

 the base and running nearly parallel with the leaf edge, the 



