NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANT.S, VII. 259 



terminal, ferruginous-pubescent, about as long as the leaves, sometimes 

 longer, sometimes shorter. Flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate, 

 pubescent, 3 to 3.5 mm long, the bracteoles small, pubescent. Cal3^x-tube 

 cylindric, 1.5 mm long. Perianth-lobes 6, equal, pubescent outside, 

 elliptic-ovate, obtuse or acute, 3 to 2.5 mm long, 1 to 1.3 mm wide. 

 Stamens as in other species of the genus. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 29S1 Ahern's collector, April, 

 1905 (type). Apparently the same species, but with small panicles, is repre- 

 sented by Merrill 2337, from Tanay, the same Province. 



Allied to Crypt ocarya laurifloia (Blanco) Merr., but difl"ering in many char- 

 acters, notably in its leaves being very glacous beneath. 



LITSEA Lam. 

 Litsea bicolor sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta; ramis griseis, teretibus, glabris, ramulis junior- 

 ibus dense f errugiueo-pubescentibus ; foliis verticillatis, elliptico-obovatis, 

 usque ad 35 cm longis, coriaceis, supra glabris, brunneis, nitidis, subtus 

 albo-glaucescentibus, costa nervisque ferrugineis, plus minus tomentosis, 

 apice breviter abrupteque acuminatis, basi acutis; fructibus fasciculatis, 

 ellipsoideis, nigris, nitidis, circiter 2 cm longis, obtusis; calycibus auctis, 

 disciformibus, circiter 1 cm diametro. 



A tree about 8 m high. Branches terete, gray, glabrous, the young 

 branchlets densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves verticillate, usually 5 

 in each whorl, elliptic-obovate, 25 to 35 cm long, 12 to 17 cm wide, the 

 apex shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base acute, coriaceous, the upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, dark-brown when dry, the lower surface pale, 

 glaucous, nearly white, somewhat deciduous-tomentose, the nerves and 

 midrib ferruginous-pubescent; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 

 very prominent beneath, curved-ascending, obscurely or not anastomos- 

 ing, the reticulations lax; petioles ferruginous-pubescent, 3.5 cm long, 

 stout. Flowers unknown. Fruit fascicled on the branches below the 

 leaves, the pedicels stout, short, the calyx accrescent, disciform, about 1 

 cm in diameter, glabrous, the fruit ellipsoid, black, shining, glabrous, 

 obtuse, about 2 cm long. 



Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, Bolster 318, April, 1906. N. v., 

 Hindang. 



A species will characterized by its large, verticillate leaves, which are very 

 pale beneath. 



Litsea hutchinsonii sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta; ramis teretibus, glabris, ramulis junioribus 

 dense f errugineo-tomentosis ; foliis oppositis vel suboppositis, oblongis, 

 coriaceis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, 5 ad 8 cm latis, concoloribus vel subtus 

 brunneis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus parce pubescentibus, nervis utrin- 

 que circiter 12; infiorescentiis axillaribus, fasciculatis vel glomeratis, 

 floribus umbellulatis, involucro biseriali, 4-phylIo; staminibus fertilibus 

 9, antlieris omnibus introrsis, 4-locellatis. 



