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acutis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, junioribus ad costa villosis, 

 vetustioribus glaberrimis, penninerviis, nervis primariis utrin- 

 que circiter 10; fructibus axillaribus, fasciculatis, parvis, gla- 

 bris, pedicellis adpresse pallide villosis, circiter 5 mm longis. 



A tree, about 6 m high, the young branchlets and petioles 

 densely pale or pale-ferruginous appressed-pubescent. Branches 

 glabrous, terete, the branchlets verticillate, 3 to 6 at a node. 

 Leaves verticillate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brownish when 

 dry, lanceolate, 5 to 7 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, narrowed below 

 to the acute base and above to the slenderly acuminate apex, 

 shining, smooth, the older ones entirely glabrous, the younger 

 ones pale appressed-villous along the midrib on both surfaces; 

 nerves all pinnately arranged, the primary ones about 10 on each 

 side of the midrib, slender, curved, somewhat ascending, ob- 

 scurely anastomosing, the reticulations not prominent, the ulti- 

 mate ones close and very obscurely f oveolate ; petioles 5 to 8 mm 

 long, rather densely pubescent. Fruits fascicled on the ultimate 

 branches below the leaves, 3 to 6 in a fascicle, the pedicels rather 

 stout, somewhat thickened upward, pale appressed-pubescent, 

 the persistent calyx-tube somewhat funnel-shaped, truncate, 

 glabrous, about 5 mm in diameter. 



Catanduanes, Mount Mariguidon, Bur. Sci. 30231 Ramos, 

 November 27, 1917, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 



This species is well characterized by its verticillate branchlets 

 and its small, lanceolate, penninerved leaves. It does not appear 

 to be very closely allied to any of the previously described species 

 of the genus. 



NEOLITSEA PAUCINERVIA sp. nov. 



Species N. zeylanicae affinis. Arbor circiter 7 m alta, ramis 

 et foliis glabris, ramulis dense pubescentibus ; foliis alternis, 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 

 usque ad 8 cm longis et 3 cm latis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 

 acutis, 3-plinerviis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 3, dis- 

 tinctis, curvato-anastomosantibus, adscendentibus, obscure anas- 

 tomosantibus ; fructibus axillaribus, ovoideis vel subglobosis, in 

 siccitate nigris, rugosis, nitidis, circiter 5 mm diametro, calycis 

 lobis 4, lanceolatis, acuminatis, villosis, pedicellis nigris, deci- 

 due villosis. 



A tree, about 7 m high, the branches smooth, terete, glabrous, 

 the branchlets and petioles densely pubescent with short hairs. 

 Leaves alternate, rather more numerous near the tips of the 

 branchlets and here sometimes pseudo-verticillate, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, subcoriaceous, brownish and shining when dry, both sur- 



