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the midrib about 1 cm above the base, evanescent or obscurely 
anastomosing with a supplementary pair of lateral nerves leaving 
the midrib above the middle of the leaf at about three-fourths 
the length of the leaf, not reaching the apex; sometimes a very 
faint additional pair of basal nerves close to the margin is 
present; petioles reddish-brown or brown, 1.5 cm long. Panicles 
terminal, ample, many flowered, up to 15 cm in length, the rachis 
and primary branches sparingly pubescent, the younger branch- 
lets, pedicels, and perianth-segments prominently appressed- 
pubescent with pale or grayish, shining hairs; pedicels 3 to 6 
mm long. Flowers about 5 mm long, the tube 1.8 mm long. 
Perianth-segments elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Fertile stamens 9, about 3 mm long, the filaments pubescent 
below, the third row with prominent glands at about the middle 
of the filaments ; staminodes stipitate, lanceolate, acuminate. 
Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; style 2 mm long. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27U85 Ramos, February 
22, 1917, in forests at low altitudes, II. pelting. 
This species is characterized among the Philippine forms by being non- 
aromatic, in its prominently triplinerved leaves, the basal nerves attaining 
about the upper three-fourths of the leaf; and its leaves being distinctly 
but shallowly foveolate-reticulate on the lower surface. In general aspect it 
somewhat resembles Cinnamomum zeylanicum Nees, but is not closely allied 
to that species. 
CINNAMOMUM SANDKUHLII sp. nov. § Malabathrum. 
Arbor, ramulis foliis junioribus et inflorescentiis dense molliter 
griseo-pubescentibus ; foliis oppositis vel suboppositis, coriaceis, 
oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 18 cm longis, nitidis, basi 
acutis, prominente 3-plinerviis, apice obtusis vel subacutis ; pan- 
iculis circiter 20 cm longis, floribus circiter 4 mm longis. 
A tree, the younger branchlets, lower surfaces of the leaves, 
and the inflorescence densely and softly gray-pubescent, the in- 
dumentum also present on the upper surface of the leaves, 
more or less deciduous, the very old leaves glabrous on both 
surfaces. Branches terete, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves 
opposite or subopposite, thickly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 10 to 
18 cm long, 3.5 to 6.5 cm wide, base acute, apex obtuse to acute, 
the upper surface very smooth and shining, the lower dull at 
first, in age shining; base prominently 3-plinerved, the midrib 
and basal nerves very prominent on both surfaces, the basal 
pair extending nearly to the apex of the leaf, with transverse 
nervules between the midrib and the lateral nerves, but without 
primary nerves; petioles up to 1.5 cm long, densely pubescent 
when young, in age quite glabrous. Panicles in the upper axils. 
