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are still in use for Laportea meyeniana as well as for other species - of the genus; 
sagay is recorded for L. crassifolia ; the two others known to Camel, ligathun 
and apareaqua, seem to have dropped from use. They may not have been 
Philippine- 
LAURACEAE. 
LITSEA Lam. 
Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Sebifera glutinosa Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 638. 
Litsea chinensis Lam. Encycl. 3 (1791) 574. 
. Litsaea sebifera Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 4. 
Litsea sebifera was based directly upon Loureiro’s species, which has been 
considered by practically all authors, beginning with Persoon, to be the same as 
Litsea chinensis Lam., although not the species called L. chinensis by Blume or 
Heyne. Another species identified with it has been Glabraria tersa Linn. Mant, 
(1771) 276, upon which Litsea tersa Merr. was based. Linnaeus’ species is 
based upon Lignum laeve minus Humph. Herb. Amboin. 3: 72, pi. 1^. If 
Glabraria tersa Linn, is the same species as Sebifera glutinosa Lour., it is its 
oldest name, if not, it is doubtless the oldest name for some other species yet to 
be extricated. Both these generic names are older than Litsea, but the latter 
is among the nomina conservanda, except so far as Sebifera is concerned, it 
doubtless having been omitted because until recently the portion of the third 
volume of Lamarck’s Encyclopedia in which Lit sea appeared was thought to 
have been published in 1789. 
In the description of Rumphius’ plate, he uses both Latin and local names 
not mentioned in the preceding text, and it is difficult to say whether he intended 
them as substitutes or as additional. The plate itself shows Glabraria tersa to 
have the flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, leaves with acute bases, 
acutely acuminate apices, and 3 or 4 veins. Not only the Philippine material 
identified as L. chinensis Lam. or some supposedly equivalent species, but sheets 
from other countries, have a different inflorescence, although rarely a flower 
here and there may be solitary. The leaf-veins are more numerous, the leaves 
themselves broader, usually with a different base and always with a different 
apex. While there is every reason to believe that Glabraria tersa has rightly 
been referred to Litsea, it seems to represent a quite different species from L. 
chinensis Lam. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. 
POLYOSMA Blume. 
Polyosma retusa sp. nov. 
Arbor: inflorescentiis terminalibus, racemoso-paniculatis ; floribus viri- 
dibus : foliis petiolatis, oblanceolatis, integris, basi acutis, apice retusis, 
mucronatis. 
Inflorescences terminal, about 8 cm long, the flowers arranged race- 
mosely or paniculately, peduncles, when any, about 2 mm long, pedicels 
about the same length, more or less covered with golden-olive pubescence, 
which is also present upon the rachis sparingly, upon the peduncles, 
pedicels, and calyx more densely, on the basal half of the outer surface of 
the petals very densely and on their apical half more sparingly ; bracts at 
the base of the pedicels and bracteoles (usually 3 in number) at their 
