xi, c, i Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon H 
infructescences, about 3 cm in diameter, usually 10 to 12 fruits 
in each head, the pedicels stout, 2 to 3 mm long, and with the 
persistent, somewhat accrescent calyx more or less ferruginous 
pubescent, the calyx distinctly 4- or 5-toothed, about 7 mm in 
diameter, the fruits ovoid to subglobose, apparently fleshy, when 
dry black, wrinkled, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 238U8 Ramos, 
August 29, 1915, in damp forests. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Litsea tayabensis Elm., but with 
entirely differently shaped, shorter, fewer nerved leaves. 
LITSEA SORSOGONENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 12 m alta, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque 
ferrugineo-puberulis, foliis junioribus subtus minute obscure 
puberulis, vetustioribus glabris; foliis alternis, oblongis ad an- 
guste oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 17 cm longis, utrinque subae- 
qualiter angustatis, basi acutis, apice obtusis ad breviter obtuse 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, prominentibus, adscen- 
dentibus; umbellulis axillaribus et e axillis defoliatis, breviter 
pedunculatis, bracteatis, 5-floris; staminibus fertilibus 9, anthe- 
ris omnibus 4-locellatis, introrsis. 
A tree about 12 m high, the young branchlets and the in- 
florescence ferruginous-puberulent. Branches terete, brown. 
Leaves alternate, oblong to narrowly oblong, coriaceous, 10 
to 17 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, rather pale-olivaceous when 
dry, paler beneath, subequally narrowed to the acute base and 
to the somewhat obtuse to obscurely obtuse-acuminate apex, 
the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface at first minutely 
puberulent, ultimately glabrous, both surfaces under a lens 
minutely and shallowly subfoveolate-reticulate ; lateral nerves 
about 8 on each side of the midrib, very prominent, ascend- 
ing, somewhat curved, anastomosing, the primary reticula- 
tions slender, not prominent; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, 
ultimately glabrous. Umbellules fascicled, numerous, in the 
axils of the leaves and in the axils of fallen leaves, the pedun- 
cles ferruginous-puberulent, up to 5 mm in length, somewhat 
thickened upward. Bracts obovate to suborbicular, concave, 
rounded, ferruginous-puberulent, about 5 mm in diameter. 
Flowers yellowish-white, 5 in each umbellule, pedicelled, the 
tube pubescent. Perianth lobes 6, oblong-ovate to oblong, obtuse, 
about 3 mm long, spreading in anthesis, pubescent outside. 
Fertile stamens 9, in three series, all anthers 4-celled, introrse. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Bulusan Volcano, Bur. Sci. 23678 Ramos, 
September 6, 1915, in damp forests on the lower slopes. Apparently 
