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faces densely and shallowly foveolate, not at all glaucous, entirely 

 glabrous, 7 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, narrowed below to the 

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

 3-plinerved, the lateral basal nerves leaving the midrib about 5 

 mm above the base of the leaf and extending to or beyond the 

 middle, the lateral ones above the base 2 or 3, slender, distinct, 

 curved-ascending, obscurely anastomosing; petioles 5 to 8 mm 

 long. Fruits axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, fascicled, 

 5 to 12 in a fascicle, ovoid to subglobose, about 5 mm in diam- 

 eter, black and shining when dry, somewhat wrinkled. Pedi- 

 cels about 5 mm long, black, covered with a brownish, more or 

 less deciduous, appressed, villous indumentum, the persistent 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, villous, about 2 mm long. 



Luzon, Sorsogon Province, Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 23316 

 Ramos, August 17, 1915, in the mossy forest. 



This species, among the Philippine forms, is probably as closely 

 allied to Neolitsea villosa Merr. as any, but differs in its few- 

 nerved, glabrous, not glaucous leaves. Its true alliance seems to 

 be with N. zeylanica Merr., from which it is distinguished by its 

 nonglaucous leaves and its villous pedicels. It also closely re- 

 sembles some forms of the Javan N. cassiaefolia Merr. 



SAXIFRAGACEAE 



POLYOSMA Blume 

 POLYOSMA VILLOSA sp. nov. 



Frutex, subtus foliis et ramis et inflorescentiis dense molliter 

 villosus ; foliis verticillatis, 4-natis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 

 chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, 7 ad 10 cm longis, apice acutis, mar- 

 gine dista'nter dentatis; nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, patulis, dis- 

 tinctis; petiolo 1.5 ad 2 cm longo; racemis axillaribus, 5 cm 

 longis, paucifloris ; fructibus ellipsoideis, 8 mm longis, plus min- 

 usve pubescentibus, bracteolis subaequalibus, circiter 1 mm 

 longis. 



A shrub, the branches, branchlets, petioles, inflorescences, and 

 the lower surface of the leaves, especially on the midrib and 

 nerves, densely and softly villous. Leaves verticillate, usually 4 

 at each node, oblong to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous to subcoria- 

 ceous, 7 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, dark-olivaceous and 

 shining when dry, the base rounded to acute, apex acute, some- 

 times with a very short mucro, the margins conspicuously villous, 

 coarsely and distantly toothed, the upper surface more or less 

 pubescent on the midrib and nerves; lateral nerves 12 to 15 on 

 each side of the midrib, spreading at right angles, distinct, anas- 



