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sed dense subfoveolatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, subtus pallidis vel 
glaucescentibus ; fructibus axillaribus, fasciculatis, pedicellatis, 
subellipsoideis, circiter 8 mm longis. 
A tree about 5 m high, entirely glabrous except the imbricate 
axillary bud-scales (flowers not seen) . Branches and branchlets 
terete, slender, brownish to nearly black when dry. Leaves alter- 
nate, not at all pseudo-verticillate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 
oblong to lanceolate, 5.5 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 8.5 cm wide, pale 
to olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower surface usually glau- 
cous, both surfaces densely and shallowly subfoveolate, the base 
acute, prominently 3-nerved, not at all 3-plinerved, the lateral 
nerves extending nearly to the tip, the apex slenderly subcau- 
date-acuminate, the acumen 1 to 1.5 cm long; petioles 1 cm long 
or less. Flowers not seen. Fruits axillary, fascicled, numerous, 
their pedicels somewhat thickened upward, up to 1 cm in length, 
the immature fruits subellipsoid, about 8 mm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11016 
(type), Levine 1351, widely scattered in damp forested ravines, altitude 
800 to 1,100 meters. 
This species is well characterized by its alternate, shallowly and densely 
foveolate, 3-nerved (not 3-plinerved), subcaudate-acuminate leaves, which 
are glaucous on the lower surface. In aspect it somewhat resembles 
Neolitsea pulchella Merr. but is distinguished by being entirely glabrous 
(except the pubescent bud-scales), in its 3-nerved, not 3-plinerved, sub- 
caudate-acuminate leaves, and in their strictly alternate, not pseudo- 
verticillate, arrangement. 
NEOLITSEA ? LEVIN El sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 6 m alta, ramulis et petiolis dense brunneo- 
pubescentibus ; foliis verticillatis, coriaceis, oblongo-lanceolatis 
ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, nitidis, basi 
acutis, perspicue 3-plinerviis, nervis primariis supra basin utrin- 
que 1, prominentibus, apice perspicue acuminatis, supra laevis, 
nitidis, subtus albido-glaucescentibus ; fructibus e axillis defolia- 
te, racemose dispositis, ellipsoideis, circiter 1.5 cm longis. 
A tree about 6 m high, glabrous or nearly so -except for the 
densely brown-pubescent branchlets and petioles, the branches 
and branchlets terete. Leaves verticillately crowded at the tips 
of the branchlets, 4 or 5 in a whorl, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 
to oblong-oblanceolate, 15 to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 7 cm wide, base 
acute, prominently 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves leaving the 
midrib about 1 cm above the base, arched-anastomosing with the 
other pair of lateral nerves in the upper three-fourths of the 
leaf, the only other pair of lateral nerves leaving the midrib 
in the upper two-thirds to three-fourths, the reticulations lax, 
