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MERRILL. 
A tree about 10 m high, nearly glabrous except the young branehlets 
and inflorescence. Branches terete, reddish-brown, glabrous, the young 
branehlets rather densely ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves opposite or sub- 
opposite, oblong, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, coriaceous, of the 
same color on both surfaces, or the lower surface brownish, the upper 
surface glabrous, shining, the lower very sparingly pubescent, the apex 
acute, obtuse, or very obscurely acuminate, the base acute; nerves about 
12 on each side of the midrib, beneath very prominent, obscurely anasto- 
mosing ; petioles subglabrous, about 1 cm long. Flowers umbellate, the 
umbels involucrate, crowded in the leaf-axils, sessile or short-pedunculate, 
the involucral scales 4, concave, orbicular or obovoid, 4 to 5 mm long, 
outside ferruginous-pubescent. Staminate flowers 3 in each umbel, sessile 
or subsessile, the tube very short, ferruginous-pubescent outside, the 
segments 6, oblong, obtuse, subequal, 3 to 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 
glabrous or nearly so. Fertile stamens 9, the longer filaments 2.5 mm 
long, glabrous or nearly so ; anthers all introrse, all 4-locellate. 
Mindanao, District- of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For.. Bur. 91J/8 Whitford cC- 
Hutchinson, January, 1908. 
A species apparently allied to Litsea lusonica (Bl.) F.-VilL, but with much 
larger, differently shaped leaves. As the genera in this group are defined in the 
Nat. Pflanzenfamilien, this species, having 9 fertile stamens, might be referred to 
Actinodaphne. 
Litsea philippinensis sp. nov. 
Arbor usque ad 20 m alta; foliis alternis, coriaceis, nitidis, glabris vel 
subglabris, oblongo-ellipticis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, apice rotundatis vel 
acutis, basi acutis; nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, prominentibus, reticulis 
validis subparallelis ; petiolis 1 ad 2.5 cm longis; floribus capitulatis, 
c-apitulis globosis, fasciculatis vel in racemis brevibus axillaribus disposi- 
tis; c-alycis lobis 6, pubescentibus ; staminibus fertilibus 12, filamentis 
villosis; fructibus oblongo-ovoideis, glabris, obtusis, circiter 3.5 cm longis, 
tubis auctis, cupulatis, circiter 2 cm diametro. 
A tree 15 to 20 m high. Branches terete, stout, brown, glabrous, the 
branehlets somewhat ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic- 
oblong, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, coriaceous, somewhat shining, 
usually brownish when dry, at least the nerves, not at all glaucous, the 
upper surface glabrous, or the midrib sometimes pubescent, the lower 
surface glabrous or the midrib and nerves usually more or less pubescent, 
the apex rounded or acute, the base usually acute; nerves 12 to 15 on 
each side of the midrib, very prominent, parallel, obscurely anastomosing 
near the margin of the leaf, the reticulations very distinct, subparallel; 
petioles pubescent, 1 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers in heads, axillary, fascicled 
or in short racemes, mostly from the branches below the leaves, in the 
axils of fallen leaves, the rachis, when present, stout, not exceeding 1 
