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terminal, ferruginous-pubescent, about as long as the leaves, sometimes 
longer, sometimes shorter. Flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate, 
pubescent, 3 to 3.5 mm long, the bracteoles small, pubescent. Calyx-tube 
cylindric, 1.5 mm long. Perianth-lobes 6, equal, pubescent outside, 
elliptic-ovate, obtuse or acute, 2 to 2.5 mm long, 1 to 1.3 mm wide. 
Stamens as in other species of the genus. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2981 Ahern’s collector, April, 
1905 (type). Apparently the same species, but with small panicles, is repre- 
sented by Merrill 233 7, from Tanay, the same Province. 
Allied to Cryptocarya lauriflora, (Blanco) Merr., but differing in many char- 
acters, notably in its leaves being very glacous beneath. 
LITSEA Lam. 
Litsea bicolor sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta; ramis griseis, teretibus, glabris, ramulis junior- 
ibus dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis verticil latis, elliptico-obovatis, 
usque ad 35 cm longis, coriaceis, supra glabris, brunneis, nitidis, subtus 
albo-glaucescentibus, costa nervisque ferrugineis, plus minus tomentosis, 
apice breviter abrupteque acuminatis, basi acutis; fructibus fasciculatis, 
ellipsoideis, nigris, nitidis, circiter 2 cm longis, obtusis; calycibus auctis, 
disciformibus, circiter 1 cm diametro. 
A tree about 8 m high. Branches terete, gray, glabrous, the young 
branchlets densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves verticillate, usually 5 
in each whorl, elliptie-obovate, 25 to 35 cm long, 12 to 17 cm wide, the 
apex shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base acute, coriaceous, the upper 
surface glabrous, shining, dark-brown when dry, the lower surface pale, 
glaucous, nearly white, somewhat deciduous-tomentose, the nerves and 
midrib ferruginous-pubescent; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 
very prominent beneath, curved-ascending, obscurely or not anastomos- 
ing, the reticulations lax; petioles ferruginous-pubescent, 3.5 cm long, 
stout. Flowers unknown. Fruit fascicled on the branches below the 
leaves, the pedicels stout, short, the calyx accrescent, disciform, about 1 
cm in diameter, glabrous, the fruit ellipsoid, black, shining, glabrous, 
obtuse, about 2 cm long. 
Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, Bolster 318, April, 1906. N. v., 
II indang. 
A species will characterized by its large, verticillate leaves, which are very 
pale beneath. 
Litsea hutchinsonii sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta ; ramis teretibus, glabris, ramulis junioribus 
dense ferrugineo-tomentosis ; foliis oppositis vel suboppositis, oblongis, 
coriaceis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, 5 ad 8 cm latis, concdloribus vel subtus 
brunneis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus parce pubescentibus, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 12; inflorescentiis axillaribus, fasciculatis vel glomeratis, 
fioribus umbellulatis, involucro biseriali, 4-phyllo; staminibus fertilibus 
9, antheris omnibus introrsis, 4-locellatis. 
