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sed dense subfoveolatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, subtus pallidis vel 

 glaucescentibus ; fructibus axillaribus, fasciculatis, pedicellatis, 

 subeilipsoideis, circiter 8 mm longis. 



A tree about 5 m high, entirely glabrous except the imbricate 

 axillary bud-scales (flowers not seen). Branches and branchlets 

 terete, slender, brownish to nearly black when dry. Leaves alter- 

 nate, not at all pseudo-verticillate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 

 oblong to lanceolate, 5.5 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, pale 

 to olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower surface usually glau- 

 cous, both surfaces densely and shallowly subfoveolate, the base 

 acute, prominently 3-Jierved, not at all 3-plinerved, the lateral 

 nerves extending nearly to the tip, the apex slenderly subcau- 

 date-acuminate, the acumen 1 to 1.5 cm long; petioles 1 cm long 

 or less. Flowers not seen. Fruits axillary, fascicled, numerous, 

 their pedicels somewhat thickened upward, up to 1 cm in length, 

 the immature fruits subellipsoid, about 8 mm long. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11016 

 (type), Levine 1351, widely scattered in damp forested ravines, altitude 

 800 to 1,100 meters. 



This species is w^ell characterized by its alternate, shallowly and densely 

 foveolate, 3-nerved (not 3-plinerved), subcaudate-acuminate leaves, which 

 are glaucous on the lower surface. In aspect it somewhat resembles 

 Neolitsea pulchella Merr. but is distinguished by being entirely glabrous 

 (except the pubescent bud-scales), in its 3-nerved, not 3-plinerved, sub- 

 caudate-acuminate leaves, and in their strictly alternate, not pseudo- 

 verticillate, arrangement. 



NEOLITSEA ? LEVINEI sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 6 m alta, ramulis et petiolis dense brunneo- 

 pubescentibus ; foliis verticillatis, coriaceis, oblongo-lanceolatis 

 ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, nitidis, basi 

 acutis, perspicue 3-plinerviis, nervis primariis supra basin utrin- 

 que 1, prominentibus, apice perspicue acuminatis, supra laevis, 

 nitidis, subtus albido-glaucescentibus ; fructibus e axillis defolia- 

 tis, racemose dispositis, ellipsoideis, circiter 1.5 cm longis. 



A tree about 6 m high, glabrous or nearly so except for the 

 densely brown-pubescent branchlets and petioles, the branches 

 and branchlets terete. Leaves verticillately crowded at the tips 

 of the branchlets, 4 or 5 in a whorl, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 

 to oblong-oblanceolate, 15 to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 7 cm wide, base 

 acute, prominently 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves leaving the 

 midrib about 1 cm above the base, arched-anastomosing with the 

 other pair of lateral nerves in the upper three-fourths of the 

 leaf, the only other pair of lateral nerves leaving the midrib 

 in the upper two-thirds to three-fourths, the reticulations lax, 



