11816, Palaquium philippinense Perr. Large 60 to 
80 feet high tree in humid forests at 4000 feet; bole straight, 
terete, 4 1/2 feat in diemeter; branches mainly toward the 
top, widely spreading, the rather numerous branchlete short 
and ascending; bark with latex, reddish beneath the emoo thish 
brown epidermia; wood odorless and tasteless, tinged with a 
pale pink color wm especially toward the center, moderately 
hard; leaves crowded terminslly, asecendingly reourved and 
spreading, velvety yellowish brown beneath, rigidly coria- 
ceous, shallowly condupliecate on the upper smooth and shine 
ing dark green surface; the divaricate young flowers seate- 
tered along the twigs below the foliage, ecanesecently brown 
pubescent; "Agrado;* Todaya, “eptember, 1909, 
11817. Lorsanthds ineernatue ®lm, n. ap. Spiphytie 
upon the upper limba of hich trees in humid forests at 4006 
feet; stems & feet lone, rether long and sparingly branched; 
wood hard and rigid, bark mottled and smoothish; leaves 
rigidly coriaceous, deseemding with reeurved tips, dull 
green shove, much paler or lighter green beneath, the margins 
eonspicucusly wavy, flat or only shallowly econduplicate; 
inflorescenée dense, hangins from 1 ineh long green peduncles 
mainly from the branches; pedicels pinkish green, bearing 
3 f¥pwers; calyx glaucously pink; corolla pale pink, 1 1/2 
inches long, tubular throughout, only the tips of the 5 or 4 
segments yellowish green; segments reflexed, the tube split- 
ting along the lower side clear to the base; style and 
stigma pink; filamente of the same color except toward the 
anthere where they are yellowish as the anthers are; "“Hanago, ” 
w 
Todaya, September, 1909. 
11818. Strengylodon mindanaensis Wim. n. e#p. 
Seandent upon lofty trees along the mainit creek at 4000 
feet of humid forests: stem terete, 1 to 2 inches thick, 
flexible; wood soft, porous, sweetish, white; bark very 
thick, brown and smoothish on the outside, otherwise whit- 
ish, that on the branches yellowish gray mottled and more 
or less lenticelled; twigs green, slender, drooping; leaves 
subcharteccous, similarly dull green on both sides, folded 
upon the upper and recurved toward the tip; spikes divari- 
eate and lateral, the main stalke dark green, the suberect 
pedicels pale green as are also the calyces; odorless flowers 
blue or somewhat purplish toward the base, “Lipe." Todaya, 
September, 1909, 
11819. VYaceinium sylvaticum “1m. n. sp. Rpiphgtic 
shrub about the stem or lower limbs of medium sized trees 
on 9 sharp wooded ridge at 4250 feet near the Usinit creek; 
stems ascending, several, 7 feet lone, rebranched from near 
the base, moderately rigid, covered with smooth grayish 
mottled bark; twigs ascending, green, terete; leaves ascend. 
ingly reeurved, shiny very deep screen above, much paler 
beneath, coriaceous; green axillary spike aseending, the 
pedicels calyx and style siwilarly green; flowers subpen-~ 
dulous, much inflated at the deep red base, gradually nare 
rowed toward the amall white neck, soft, in texture, less 
than 1/2 inch long; ovary erown yellow; the pubescent: fila. 
ments pink at the base, otherwise #hitish; “Taupol;” 
Todays, “Yeptember, 1999, 

