Botany and Ecology Medium-sized tree, ca. 6-8 m. Bark, root, and crushed leaves aromatic with a characteristic smell of cloves (eugenol), sassafras (safrole), or a combination of these odors (Figs. 1 and 2). Twigs terete, ca. 1-5 mm diameter glabrous. Branchlets and bark smooth; terminal buds small, glabrous, not perulate. Leaves opposite, leathery, smooth, pale green, elliptic to ovate, ca. 16 cm long and 11 cm wide; base obtuse; apex acuminate; lateral veins ascend toward the leaf tip, intercostal veins scalariform; mature blades glabrous; margin entire. Inflorescences axillary (Fig. 3); panicles ca. 17 mm long, puberulous; paniculate cymose, branching, flowers of the ultimate branch arranged in cyme; rachis angular; bracts persistent. Flowers bisexual, trimerous, appressed hairy, receptacle tube shallow. Petals smooth and scarcely exerted. Fruit smooth, narrowly ellipsoid to obovoid ca. 2 cm long, ovoid to globose seated on cupule, drupaceous, epicarp waxy, glabrous, pericarp thin or thick, often fragrant. Seeds 1 per fruit, smooth, glabrous; endosperm absent; germination hypogeal (Fig. 4). Etymologically, this species was named for its type locality (Sitio Cantipla, Barangay Tabunan, Cebu City), where it was collected as described by Kostermans in 1986. Cinnamomum cebuense is one of 21 Cinnamomum species with complex