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A small tree, the branches brownish-olivaceous, about 1 cm. in 
diameter, smooth, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves alternate, 
subcoriaceous, 35 fp 40 em, long, 8 to 10 cm. wide, subequally 
narrowed to the cuneate base and to the slenderly acuminate apex, 
the upper surface smooth, glabrous, grayish- olivaceous, the lower sur- 
face cupreous, densely pubescent with very short, appressed, some- 
what shining hairs; lateral nerves 15 to 18 on each side of the mid- 
rib, curved-as scending at am angle of about 45°, distinct on the 
lower surface, obscure on the upper surface, the primary reticulations 
rather distinct beneath; petioles glabrous, 2 to 2.5 cm. long. 
Umbellules fascicled in the leaf axils, few in a fascicle, subsessile, 
the peduncles at most 2 mm. long, these and the involucral bracts 
‘densely brown-pubescent, the bracts 4, orbicular-ovate, 4 to 5 mm. 
in diameter. Flowers about 5 in each umbellule, their pedicels 
‘stout, 3 mm. long, densely pubescent. Perianth-segments of the 
staininate flowers elliptic-ovate, obtuse, somewhat pubescent, 3 
mm. long. Fertile stamens 9, their filaments about 2 mm. lone, 
sparingly ciliate; anthers all 4-celled, 1.2 to 1.5 mm. long. Pistil- 
late flowers similar to the stamimate ones, the staminodes linear to 
linear-spatulate, 1 to 1.2 mm. long, the glands conspicuous. Ovary 
glabrous, stigma very large. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Ramos 
1267, October, 1920. In damp forests alone small streams at low 
altitudes. A species strongly characterized by its elongated leaves 
which are grayish- olivaceous on the upper surface and densely cup- 
reous- pubescent with short, appressed hairs on tne fower surface. 
Its alliance appears to be with Litsea firma Hock. f. of the Malay 
Peninsula, Borneo, and Celebes, but it is radically different from 
that species in its vegetative characters. 
Litsea caulocarpa sp. noy. 
Arbor parva ramulis et subtus foliis plus minusve ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus, ramis teretibus, ramulis leviter angulatis; foliis al- 
ternis, oblongo-obovatis, subcorjaceis, 20-33 cm. longis, acutis vel 
obscure acuminatis, minute apiculatis, basi cuneatis, supra olivaceis 
vel viridi-olivaceis, glabris, nitidis, subtus brunneis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 30, perspicuis; umbellulis fasciculatis caulinis et in ramis 
vetustioribus; pedunculis circiter 15 em. longis, dense pallide- 
pubescentibus; bracteis obovatis, 6 mm. longis, truncato-rotundatis, 
«lense pubescentibus : perianthi segmentis 6, plerumque oblance- 
olatis, 4-5 mm. longis; ie fertilibus 12, filamentis 
tenuibus, parce ciliatis, 6-7 mm. longis; sepalis accrescentibus 
in cupulo, subhignoso, glabro, 1.5 cm. diametro, truneato, sub- 
sessilt ; fructibus | ellipsoideis, 12 mm. longis. 
A tree up to 7 m. high, the branchlets and the lower surface 
-of the leaves 'more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Branches terete, 
brownish, somewhat wrinkled when dry, glabrous, the branchlets 
more or less angular, rather densely pubescent. Leaves alternate, 
oblong-obovate, firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 20 to 33 cm. 
IR. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
