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soid, smooth, about 2 cm long, seated on the enlarged, cup- 
shaped calyx, which is 1.2 to 2 cm in diameter and about 1 cm 
high. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, near San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 13523 Ramos, 
(type), August, 1910, For Bur. 15360 Tamesis, November, 1909. 
A species well characterized by its very prominently nerved leaves, but 
which may, when male flowers are known, prove to belong in the genus 
Lindera rather than in Litsea. 
LITSEA MACGREGORIl sp. nov. 
Arbor, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra, ramis ramulisque tere- 
tibus ; foliis alternis vel subverticillatis, oblongis, coriaceis, usque 
ad 16 cm longis, nitidis, subtus glaucescentibus, utrinque subae- 
qualiter angustatis, basi acutis, apice obtusis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 10, adscendentibus, subtus valde prominentibus ; umbel- 
lis pedunculatis, axillaribus et e axillis defoliatis, fasciculatis, 
4- vel 5-floris, floribus pubescentibus, pedicellatis, bracteis invo- 
lucrantibus caducis. 
A tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, the branches and 
branchlets nearly black when dry, terete, smooth. Leaves al- 
ternate or subverticillate, oblong, coriaceous, 13 to 16 cm long, 
3 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and 
to the obtuse apex, the upper surface smooth and shining, 
brownish-olivaceous, the lower paler and more or less glaucous; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, ascending, 
very prominent on the lower surface, nearly straight, the reticula- 
tions obscure; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long, dark reddish-brown when 
dry. Umbels axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, 4 to 
6 in a fascicle, the peduncles 1.5 to 2 cm long, all parts rather 
densely pale-pubescent. Involucral bracts caducous. Flowers 
4 or 5 in each umbel, the pedicels about 4 mm long, rather slender, 
pubescent. Perianth lobes about 4 mm long, elliptic, obtuse, 
concave, rather densely pale-pubescent. Fertile stamens 9, the 
anthers oblong, 2 mm long, the fllaments somewhat pubescent, 
about 1 mm long, the glands about 0.6 mm in diameter. 
Biliran, Bur. Sci. 18U93 McGregor, May 22, 1914, in forests, altitude 
about 200 meters. 
The specimens present male flowers only, and the species resembles 
Litsea euphlebia Merr. in vegetative characters, but differs from it and 
from L. quercoides Elm. in its comparatively long-peduncled umbels. 
LITS£A MICRANTHA sp. nov. 
Arbor, partibus junioribus subtus foliis inflorescentiisque 
minute pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis alternis, oblongis, 
chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 8 cm longis, utrinque 
