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narrowly oblong, glabrous, 1.5 mm long; ovules usually 4; styles 

 0.5 mm long. 



Panay, Antique Province, Batbatan Island, opposite Culasi, 

 Bur. Sci. 32249 McGregor, June 29, 1918, fairly common in 

 thickets at low altitudes. 



This species rather closely resembles Cuming 1607 from Mi- 

 samis Province, Mindanao, which has been referred to Uvaria 

 ovalifolia Blume but which apparently is not referable to Plume's 

 species. Among the other characters the present species differs 

 from Uvaria ovalifolia in its somewhat smaller, fewer-nerved 

 leaves; in being nearly glabrous; and in its entirely glabrous 

 carpels. It is well characterized by its sepals and petals being 

 nearly glabrous except for their densely ferruginous-pubescent 

 margins and apices. 



LAURACEAE 



CRYPTOCARYA R. Brown 

 CRYPTOCARYA RAMOSII sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, ramulis inflorescentiisque exceptis glabra ; foliis 

 oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, 6 ad 11 cm longis, 

 acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 8, perspicuis, re- 

 ticulis ultimis confertis, utrinque obscure foveolatis; fructibus 

 ellipsoideis, 1.5 cm longis, nigris, nitidis, glabris, laevis, 1.5 cm 

 longis. 



A tree, 5 to 6 m high, glabrous, except the young branchlets 

 and inflorescences which are ferruginous-pubescent. Branches 

 reddish-brown, lenticellate. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 

 subcoriaceous, usually pale when dry, shining, 6 to 11 cm long, 

 1.5 to 4 cm wide, narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, base 

 acute; lateral nerves usually 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 rather prominent on the lower surface, pinnately arranged, 

 curved, anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations very close, both 

 surfaces very shallowly and minutely foveolate; petioles 5 to 8 

 mm long. Panicles in the uppermost axils, narrow, rather 

 few-flowered, 6 to 8 cm long, the branches rather few, short, not 

 exceeding 1.5 cm in length. Flowers subsessile, ferruginous- 

 pubescent, about 4 mm long, the tube about 2 mm long. Pe- 

 rianth-lobes elliptic-ovate, as long as the tube. Fruit ellipsoid, 

 black and shining M^hen dry, 1.5 cm long, glabrous, smooth. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 

 Bur. Sci. 33071 Ramos, August 30, 1918, in forests at low 

 altitudes. 



The description of the flowers is from Bur. Sci. 3334-6 Ramos, 



