1346 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Art. 70 
occasionally rebranched, terete, pale green; leaves descendingly 
recurved, folded upon the upper darker green surface, thinly 
coriaceus; the ascending young infrutescence nearly viridis green- 
Represented by number 12756, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in black compact humus covered soil of a wooded 
flat at 250 feet altitude. 
PLECTRONIA Linn. 
Plectronia pedunculare (Cav.) Elm. 
Field-note:—A shrub, 5 to 9 feet high; stem 1 to 3 inches 
thick, branched from below the middle; branches droopingly 
spreading; leaves flat, membranous, pale green; flowers pendant, 
white. 
Represented by number 13247, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
In deep fertile moist soil of lightly wooded flats or among 
shrubberies bordering stream courses at 50 feet altitude. 
Plectronia didyma (Gaertn.) Elm. 
Field-note for 12829:—Slender and ascending tree; stem 
5 inches thick, terete, its main branches arising from the [middle, 
15 feet high or long; wood finely grained, melleus especially to- 
ward the center, odorless and tasteless, rather hard; bark gray- 
ish white, mottled, green beneath the smooth epidermis, whit- 
ish on the inner side; branehlets spreading, lax, their ultimate 
subangular tips ascendingly curved; leaves coriaceous, mostly 
horizontal, flat except the abruptly recurved apices, paler green 
beneath, shining dark green above; inflorescence axillary, green, 
the corolla and inner organs creamy white, sweetly fragrant. 
Represented by numbers 12829 and 13180, Elmer, Puerto 
_ Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March and May, 1911. 
On a dry fertile well drained ridge at 1000 feet in woods 
festooned with climbing and sprawling bamboos. The last num- 
.. ber cited was collected in red shallow soil with a gravelly subsoil 
along the wooded banks of the Iwahig river at 750 feet. 
