1796 Leaflkts of PHrLiPFixK Botany [Vol. V, Art. 5)3 



smooth, latericius beneath the grayish brown and more or 

 less mottled epidermis; main branches spreading and finely 

 rebranched, the ultimate ones fulviis tomentulose. Foliage 

 coriaceous, ample, opposite, well scattered, the larger ones 1 

 dm. long by 4 cm. across the middle, oblong, the smaller 

 ones less than one half as large and broadly lanceolate, apex 

 acute to acuminate, base broadly obtuse or obtusely rounded, 

 glabrous on the upper side, sabglaucous and cinereous beneath 

 even so in the dry state, the upper much darker green 

 surface drying greenish brown; petiole 5 mm. long or less, 

 densely fulvus; midrib pronounced beneath, similarly hairy, 

 its upper groove filled with hairs; lateral nerves 7 to 9 

 pairs, ascendingly curved from the base, conspicuous beneath, 

 their tips faintly united, reticulations evident upon the nether 

 side only. Buds globose, yellowish green, usually few clustered 

 in the leaf axils or in their scar axils, sessile or subsessilely 

 clustered upon short common stalks or tubercle, usually sub- 

 tended by one or more quite thick similarly hairy bracts, 

 when young forming a globose head, reflexed when old; 

 common perianth segments 4, concavo convex, finely pubescent 

 on the dorsal side and margins, 3 to 5-veined, subequal, 

 elliptic to rotund, 3 to 4 mm. long, occasionally the thin 

 margins become finely lacerate or fimbriate, obscurely punc- 

 tate; staminate flowers in 3 or 4 groups, subtended by one 

 half dozen of elliptically oblong 1.5 mm. long prominently 

 punctate involucral bracts; stamens about 6 in a cluster, 

 irregularly scattered; filaments unequal in length, the outer 

 ones 1.5 mm. long, the inner ones shorter, hairy toward 

 the densely hairy receptacle; anther 1 mm. long, widest 

 across the truncately rounded apex, basifixed, 0.5 mm. wide 

 or narrower, subcompressed, usually 4-celled, also subtruncate 

 at base; pistillate flowers not observed. 



Type specimen number 12947, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



Discovered in well drained compact humus covered soil 

 of a forested ridge at 2000 feet elevation. 



Its finer branches, smaller leaves with characteristic 

 glaucous and cinereous nether sides at ones distinguished it in 

 the woods from the common Litsea fidva (Blm.) Vil. How- 

 ever it was distributed under that genus with my new 



