1898 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Aet. 94 



TARENNA Qaertn. 



Tarenna cutninsfiana (Vid.) Elm. n, comb. Webera 

 cumingiana Vid. Phan. Cum. Philip. Il9, 1885. 



Field-note: — Small erect tree; stem terete, 6 inches thick, 

 20 feet high, its main branches arising from the middle; 

 wood soft, white, odorless and without taste; bark blackish 

 brown, smooth, that on the branchlets reddish brown; main 

 branches divaricate, long, freely rebranched, the angular twigs 

 ascendingly curved; leaves horizontal, the suberect young 

 ones much paler green, submerabranous, much deeper green 

 above, flat, only tips recurved; infrutescence also green, erect, 

 the fruits 2celled, each with numerous small angular seeds. 



Represented by number 13363, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 



In sticky clay on a damp densely forested ridge at 

 2000 feet altitude of Giwantanan. 



Tarenna meyeri Elm. n. comb. Pavetta meyeri Elm. 

 Leaf. Philip. Bot. Ill, 1015, 1911. 



Tarenna ebracteata Elm. n. comb. Randia ebracteata 

 Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. IV, 1354, 1912. 



TIMONIUS Rumph. 



Timonius caudatifolius Elm. n. sp. 



Lax epiphytic shrub; stems few, descending, 2 cm. thick, 

 terete, 1 to 3 m. long, rebranched from near the base; branch- 

 lets very slender and lax, the ascending and relatively short 

 twigs very flexible, the young portion pale fulvus hirsute. 

 Leaves coriaceous, gracefully recurved, curing unequally brown 

 on the upper and lower sides, opposite, more or less crowd- 

 ed toward the ends of the branchlets, the entire sides 

 curved upon the nether side at least in the dry state, 

 broadly lanceolate, varying from 1.5 cm. to 45 cm. wide 

 below the middle or toward the base, base rounded, the 

 upper two thirds gradually tapering to the very slender cau- 



