The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. XII, No. 3, May, 1917. 
NEW PHILIPPINE LAURACEAE 
By E. D. Merrill* 
{From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The present paper consists chiefly of the descriptions of nine- 
teen species of Lauraceae in the genera Cinnamomum, Crypto- 
carya, Litsea, and Phoebe, with a note on Litsea albayana Vid. ; 
Cryptocarya griffithiana Wight is credited to the Philippines, and 
Endiandra vidalii Elm. is transferred to Cryptocarya where it 
properly belongs. 
CINNAMOMUM Linnaeus 
CINNAMOMUM MYRIANTHUM sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, hand aromatica, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; 
ramis ramulisque teretibus, laevis, brunneis ; foliis oppositis, co- 
riaceis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, obtusis 
vel brevissime obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis, prominente tripli- 
nerviis, nervis apice non attingentibus, supra laevis, nitidis, sub- 
tus distincte dense jejeune foveolato-reticulatis ; paniculis termi- 
nalibus, circiter 15 cm longis, multifloris, plus minusve adpresse 
griseo-pubescentibus ; floribus pedicellatis, 5 mm longis, segmentis 
extus prominente, pubescentibus, indumentum nitidum ; stamini- 
bus fertilibus 9, circiter 3 mm longis, staminoideis stipitatis, 
lanceolatis, acuminatis. 
A tree about 5 m high, glabrous except the rather prominently 
pubescent inflorescence, the leaves and the cortex of the younger 
branches not at all aromatic when dry. Branches and branchlets 
brown, terete, smooth. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate to 
oblong-ovate, 8 to 11 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, narrowed upward 
to the obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate apex, base acute, 
prominently 3-plinerved, the upper surface smooth, shining, 
rather pale when dry, the lower surface of nearly the same color, 
duller, distinctly and densely foveolate-reticulate, the foveolae 
shallow, mostly about 0.5 mm in diameter ; lateral nerves leaving 
* Professor of botany. University of the Philippines. 
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