XIV. 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 397 



vatis, vix elevatis ; paniculis sub f ructu axillaribus, circiter 7 cm 

 longis; fructibus globosis, circiter 1.5 cm diametro, in siccitate 

 nigris, nitidis, glabris, leviter longitudinaliter striatis. 



A small tree, 6 m high fide Ramos, entirely glabrous except 

 the inflorescences, which are apparently somewhat pubescent. 

 Branches and branchlets smooth, terete, slender, smooth, brown- 

 ish-olivaceous. Leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic, chartaceous, sub- 

 olivaceous, shining, 15 to 20 cm long, 7 to 9 cm wide, not at all 

 foveolate, the apex prominently and obtusely acuminate, the 

 acumen about 1.5 cm long, stout, the base somewhat decurrent- 

 acuminate; lateral nerves 5 on each side of the midrib, prom- 

 inent but scarcely projecting, somewhat curved, reticulations 

 slender, distinct, rather close; petioles 1 to 2 cm long. Panicles 

 in fruit axillary, about 7 cm long, the branchlets sparingly pu- 

 bescent. Fruits globose, black when dry, shining, faintly ridged 

 longitudinally, glabrous, about 1.5 cm in diameter. 



Catanduanes, Bur. Sci. 30330 Ramos, December 9, 1917, in 

 forests along small streams back of Calolbong. 



A species well characterized by its rather large, conspicuously 

 acuminate leaves; lateral panicles; and rather large, globose, 

 somewhat ridged, glabrous fruits. 



CRYPTOCARYA DENSI FLORA Blume Bijdr. (1825) 556; Koord. & Val. 

 Bijdr. Boom. Java 10 (1904) 213. 



Panay, Jamindan and Mount Macosolon, Bur. Sci. 31317, 

 33If35 Ramos & Edano, April and May, 1918 (leaves not glaucous 

 beneath). Negros, For. Bur. 23666 Hinolan, March, 1915. 

 Mindanao, Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 1001, s. n., April and July, 1907. 



This species has previously been reported from Java, where it 

 is common and widely distributed, and from the Malay Penin- 

 sula. The Philippine material cited above closely matches a 

 series of specimens from Java and the Malay Peninsula, and 

 also conforms to the descriptions of Blume's species. The speci- 

 mens collected by Mrs. Clemens were described by me in 1908 

 as a new species of Beilschmiedia, but the description was for- 

 tunately never published. Cryptocarya laevigata Elm., the type 

 of which is a specimen with very immature fruits, is scarcely to 

 be distinguished from Blume's species. 



NEOLITSEA Merrill 

 NEOLITSEA LANCEOLATA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 6 m alta, ramulis junioribus et petiolis dense 

 adpresse pubescentibus, ramis glabris, teretibus, ramulis et foliis 

 verticillatis ; foliis lanceolatis, chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, in sic- 

 citate brunneis, nitidis, usque ad 7 cm longis et 1.5 cm latis, basi 



165368 3 



