2G( ) MERRILL. 



A tree about 10 m high, nearly glabrous except tlie young branehlets 

 aiul inflorescence. Brandies terete, reddish-brown, glabrous," the young 

 branehlets rather densely ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves opposite or sub- 

 opposite, oblong, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, coriaceous, of the 

 same color on both surfaces, or the lower surface brownish, the upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, the lower very sparingly pubescent, the apex 

 acute, obtuse, or very obscurely acuminate, the base acute; nerves about 

 12 on each side of the midrib, beneath very prominent, obscurely anasto- 

 mosing; petioles subglabrous, about 1 cm long. Flowers umbellate, the 

 umbels involucrate, crowded in the leaf-axils, sessile or short-pedunculate, 

 tbe involucral scales 4, concave, orbicular or obovoid, 4 to 5 mm long, 

 outside ferruginous-pubescent. Staminate flowers 3 in each umbel, sessile 

 or subsessile, the tube very short, ferruginous-pubescent outside, the 

 segments 6, oblong, obtuse, subequal, 3 to 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Fertile stamens 9, the longer filaments 2.5 mm 

 long, glabrous or nearly so ; anthers all introrse, all 4-locellate. 



^IiXDAXAO, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. Ol-'/S Whitford d 

 Hutchinson, January, 1908. 



A species apparently allied to Litsea luzonica (Bl.) F.-Vill., but with much 

 larger, dilTerently shaped leaves. As the genera in this group are defined in the 

 Nat. Pflanzenfamilien, this species, liaving 9 fertile stamens, might be referred to 

 Actinodaphne. 



Litsea philippinensis sp. nov. 



Arbor usque ad 20 m alta; foliis alternis, coriaceis, nitidis, glabris vel 

 subglabris, oblongo-ellipticis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, apice rotundatis vel 

 acutis, basi acutis; nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, prominentibus, reticulis 

 validis subparallelis; petiolis 1 ad 2.5 cm longis; floribus capitulatis, 

 capitulis globosis, fasciculatis vel in racemis brevibus axillaribus disposi- 

 tis; calycis lobis 6, pubescentibus ; staminibus fertilibus 12, filamentis 

 villosis; fructibus oblongo-ovoideis, glabris, obtusis, circiter 3.5 cm longis, 

 tubis auctis, cupulatis, circiter 2 cm diametro. 



A tree 15 to 20 m high. Branches terete, stout, brown, glabrous, tbe 

 branehlets somewhat ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic- 

 oblong, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, coriaceous, somewhat shining, 

 usually brownish when dry, at least the nerves, not at all glaucous, the 

 upper surface glabrous, or the midrib sometimes pubescent, the lower 

 surface glabrous or the midrib and nerves usually more or less pubescent, 

 the apex rounded or acute, the base usually acute; nerves 12 to 15 on 

 each side of the midrib, very prominent, parallel, obscurely anastomosing 

 near the margin of the leaf, the reticulations very distinct, subparallel; 

 jietioles ])ubescent, 1 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers in heads, axillary, fascicled 

 or in short racemes, mostly from the branches below the leaves, in the 

 axils of fjillon leaves, the racbis. when present, stout, not exceeding 1 



