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mosantibus, reticulis subobsoletis ; petiolo 1 cm longo ; umbellulis 

 axillaribus, paucis, fasciculatis, pedunculatis, pubescentibus, 

 pedunculo 7 mm longo, bracteis involucrantibus ovatis, concavis, 

 4 mm longis ; floribus $ paucis, pubescentibus, tubo 3 mm longo, 

 lobis 2 mm longis, staminibus 9; fructibus ellipsoideis, glabris, 

 nitidis, 2.5 cm longis, 2 cm diametro, calycis accrescentibus 

 obconicis, 2 cm longis, crasse coriaceis, glabris, verrucosis, trun- 

 catis. 



Ng Chi Leng, McClure 9360, 9586 (type), 8658, April and 

 May, 1922, December, 1921, in forested ravines near the cave on 

 the south slope of the mountain, altitude about 900 meters. 



A species in the same general group as the Philippine Litsea 

 albayana Vid. and strongly resembling that species, differing 

 however notably in its much larger and differently shaped fruits 

 and larger, accrescent calyces. It differs from Litsea vang H. 

 Lecomte of Indo-China by its leaves being more or less glaucous 

 beneath ; by its much shorter petioles ; by its solitary or fascicled 

 sessile fruits; and by its accrescent calyces being grayish and 

 verruculose, not black and smooth when dry. 



SAXIFRAGACEAE 



DICHROA MOLLISSIMA sp. nov. 



Frutex 1.5 m altus, ramulis et subtus foliis molliter villosis, 

 ramis ramulisque teretibus, tenuibus, ramis glabris; foliis 

 oblongo-ellipticis, chartaceis ad submembranaceis, 10 ad 15 cm 

 longis, 2.5 ad 3.5 cm latis, supra olivaceis, nitidis, glaberrimis, 

 subtus pallidioribus, molliter villosis, utrinque subaequaliter 

 angustatis, apice acute acuminatis, basi acutis, margine sursum 

 distanter denticulatis ; nervis utrinque 6 vel 7, subtus distinctis, 

 curvatis; petiolo 1 ad 3 cm longo; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 

 pedunculatis, circiter 7 cm longis, pubescentibus; calycis cupu- 

 latis, 1.5 mm longis, lobis subpatulis, ovatis, acutis, 1 mm longis; 

 petalis oblongo-ovatis ad lanceolato-ovatis, acutis ad acuminatis, 

 apice inflexis, 3.5 mm longis, glabris; filamentis 1.2 ad 2 mm 

 longis, antheris ellipsoideis, 1 mm longis; stylis 4, crassis, 1.6 

 mm longis. 



Ng Chi Leng, McClure 9378, April 29, 1922, in forested ravines 

 above the cave on the south slope of the mountain. 



A species characterized by the softly villous lower surfaces of 

 its leaves, which is the most striking differential character 

 between it and the allied Dichroa febrifuga Lour. 



