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cm in length. Involucral bracts -i or 5, pubescent, concave, orbicular or 

 obovoid, the inner ones thinner, their margins ciliate, strongly imbricate, 

 6 to 8 flowers in each head. Calyx-tube slender, tubular, 2 mm long, 

 cylindric, the lobes 6, 3 mm long, pubescent. Fertile stamens 13, their 

 filaments slender, 3 mm long, clothed with long weak hairs. Fruit olilong- 

 ovoid, glabrous, obtuse, about 3.5 mm long, the calyx-tube accrescent, 

 persistent, cup-shaped, about 2 cm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. 1503 Curran, September, 

 1907 (type), For. Bur. 1363, 1794 Borden, July, September, 1904, Whitford ^12, 

 July, 1904, Williams 619, February, 1904: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. 

 Bur. 3171 Ahern's collector, July, 1905. Mindoro, Bongabong River, Whitford 

 1413, April, 1906; Balete, For. Bur. 6161 Merritt, January, 1907. Mindanao, 

 Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 298, February, 1906. 



This species is well represented in our herbarium, especially in material from 

 the Mouiit Mariveles region, but the specimen collected, by Curran in September, 

 1907, is the first one secvired with mature flowers, thus allowing accurate generic 

 identification. The specimen from Mindanao, Clemens 298, is immature, being 

 much more pubescent than the type, and may possibly represent a different species. 

 It is well characterized by its oblong-elliptic, usually obtuse, strongly nerved 

 leaves. Apparently allied to Litsea grandis Hook. f. 



NEOLITSEA (Benth.) Merr. 



Neolitsea villosa (Blvune) comb. nov. 



Litsea villosa Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1851) 349; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Filip. (1886) 226; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (Manila) (1892) 143; Rendle in Journ. 

 Bot. 34 (1896) 355. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 15 (1864) 221. 



Neolitsea zeylanica Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 57; non 

 Litsea zeylanica C. & Fr. Nees. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Santo Tomas, Willinms 1986, November, 

 1904; Loher 4521; Suyoc to Panai, Merrill 4761, November, 1905: Province of 

 Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2674 Ahern's collector, January, 1905: Province of 

 Bataan, Mount ISIariveles, Whitford 119, 458, May, July, 1904, Elmer 6806 

 November, 1904, Merrill 3204, October, 1903, For. Bur. 1337, 1586 Borden, 1503 

 Ahern's collector, 2617 Meyer, 6262 Curran: Province of Pampanga, Mount Abu. 

 Bur. Sci. 1958, 1959 Foxworthy, December, 1906: Province of Zambales, Mount 

 Tapulao, For. Bur. 8073 Curran; Candelaria, For. Bur. 8250 Curran & Merritt, 

 December, 1907. Mindoeo, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. 4369 Merritt, Merrill 5666; 

 Mount Malasumbu, For. Bur. 8747 Merritt. Mindanao, Province of Misamis, 

 Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 4681, 4695 Mearns cG Hutchinson, May, 1906. 



This species is widely distributed in the Philippines, but is never found at low 

 altitudes. It was previously confused by me with Litsea zeylanica C. & Fr. Nees, 

 but appears not to be that species, but rather Blume's L. villosa, as identified by 

 Vidal and Rendle. The specimens cited above show considerable variation, some 

 of them having the leaves decidedly ferruginous-pilose beneath, but this indument 

 is deciduous; pubescent and glabrous leaves can frequently be found on the same 

 specimen. This densely villous form has been identified by Vidal as Litsea 

 cinnamomea Blume, but Avhether correctly so or not, the Luzon form so named 

 appears to me to be the same as L. villosa=Neolitsea villosa. This is doubtless 

 the form approximately identified by Stepf, in his paper on the flora of Mount 

 Kinabalu, as Litsea zeylanica, so far as his Philippine reference goes. 



