NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
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cm in length. Involucral bracts 4 or 5, pubescent, concave, orbicular or 
obovoid, the inner ones thinner, their margins ciliate, strongly imbricate, 
6 to 8 flowers in each head. Calyx-tube slender, tubular, 2 mm long, 
cylindric, the lobes 6, 3 mm long, pubescent. Fertile stamens 12, their 
filaments, slender, 3 mm long, clothed with long weak hairs. Fruit oblong- 
ovoid, glabrous, obtuse, about 3.5 mm long, the calyx- tube accrescent, 
persistent, cup-shaped, about 2 cm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. 7503 Curran, September, 
1907 (type), For. Bur. 1363, 1791/ Borden, July, September, 1904, Whitford 1/72, 
July, 1904, Williams 619, February, 1904: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. 
Bur. 3171 Ahern’s collector, July, 1905. Mindoro, Bongabong River, Whitford 
HIS, April, 1906; Balete, For. Bur. 6161 Merritt, January, 1907. Mindanao,- 
Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 298, February, 1906. 
This species is well represented in our herbarium, especially in material from 
the Mount Mariveles region, but the specimen collected by Curran in September, 
1907, is the first one secured with mature flowers, thus allowing accurate generic 
identification. The specimen from Mindanao, Clemens 298, is immature, being- 
much more pubescent than the type, and may possibly represent a different species. 
It is well characterized by its oblong-elliptic, usually obtuse, strongly nerved 
leaves. Apparently allied to Litsea grandis Hook. f. 
N EOLITSE A (Benth.) Merr. 
Neo litsea villosa (Blume) comb. nov. 
Litsea villosa Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1851) 349; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 226; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (Manila) (1892) 143; Rendle in Journ. 
Bot. 34 (1896) 355. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 15 (1864) 221. 
Neolitsea zeylanica Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 57; non 
Litsea zeylanica C. & Fr. Nees. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Santo Tomas, Williams 19S6, November, 
1904; Loher 4521; Suyoc to Panai, Merrill 4761, November, 1905: Province of 
Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2674 Ahern’s collector, January, 1905 : Province of 
Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Whitford 119, 458, May, July, 1904, Elmer 6806 
November, 1904, Merrill 3204, October, 1903, For. Bur. 1337, 1586 Borden, 1503 
Ahern’s collector, 2617 Meyer, 6262 Curran: Province of Pampanga, Mount Abu. 
Bur. Sci. 1958, 1959 Foxworthy, December, 1906: Province of Zambales, Mount 
Tapulao, For. Bur. 8073 Curran; Candelaria, For. Bur. 8250 Curran & Merritt, 
December, 1907. Mindoro, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. 4360 Merritt, Merrill 5666; 
Mount Malasumbu, For. Bur. 8747 Merritt. Mindanao, Province of Misamis, 
Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 4681, 4695 M earns & Hutchinson, May, 1906. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines, but is never found at low 
altitudes. It was previously confused by me with Litsea zeylanica C. & Fr. Nees, 
but appears not to be that species, but rather Blume’s L. villosa., as identified by 
Vidal and Rendle. The specimens cited above show considerable variation, some 
of them having the leaves decidedly ferruginous-pilose beneath, but this indument 
is deciduous; pubescent and glabrous leaves can frequently be found on the same 
specimen. This densely villous form has been identified by Vidal as Litsea 
cinnamomea Blume, but whether correctly so or not, the Luzon form so named 
appears to me to be the same as L. villosa=Weolitsea villosa. This is doubtless 
the form approximately identified by Stepf, in his paper on the flora of Mount 
Kinabalu, as Litsea, zeylanica, so far as his Philippine reference goes. 
