portion of leafless stems; the peduncle green, the pedicels 
creamy white; outer floral organs of the same color, the 
inner one purplish streaked snd yellow on the eentral portion 
of the inner side; flowers showy; 1 1/2 inch long, odorless; 
*‘Laninga," Todays, Time, amex 1909. 
11734. Pithecolobium mindansense Merr. Low under- 
shrub, in moist humus covered soil (gravelly) slong shallow 
wooded gulehes of the Baruring river canyon at 3500 feet: 
etem terete, 1 inch thick, 2 to 3 in the same cluster, 
erookeda and sparingly branched above the middle, branchlets 
aleo crooked, ultimately horizontelly inclined, the twigs 
portion green; wood tough, whitish; bark brown, minutely 
lenticelled; leaves horizontal or descending, fiat, sub. 
papyraceous, deep green above, dull yellowish or lighter 
green beneath; inflorescence soattered along the branchlets, 
varying up to 6 inches long, sparsely and divaricately 
branched, 211 the stalks green; the odorless flowers usually 
in paire, the petele creamy yellow, the filaments creamy 
white, the anthers vellowish brown the whole flower desci- 
duous; rare; "Tamanag;" Todaya, September, 1909. 
11735. Mallotus ricinoides Muell. Arg. Tree-Like 
shrub in fertile soil of open er light woods amongst grasses 
at 3500 feet, south of the Baruring river; stem branched 
from below the middle, anecending and widely rebranched; 
wood white, soft, odorless snd tasteless; bark finely mottled, 
lenticelled; petioles ascending, yellowish podwery; leaves 
soft, flat or descending, light green on the upper side, 
grayish white beneath, the young leaves deep red on the 
upper side only; panicle spsringly branched, ascending, 
the spikelets gracefully recurved flowers slightly fragrant, 
ereamy yellow exeept the creamy white filaments; "Dapalen;" 
Todays, September, 1909. 
11736,  Liteea baruringensis Bim. n. sp. (fl.) 
Medium sized tree in fertile soil of light woods at 3500 
feet, south of the Baruring river; stem 1 foot thick, 39 
feet high, branched toward the top; branches rather few, 
comparatively short, crookedly rebranched; wood soft, 
yellowish with caren gape odorless and tasteless; bark 
emooth, vrown and gr, mottled, bright yellow below the 
epidermis; twigs dull green, or soon turning brownish on 
the upper side at least; leaves descending, chartaceous, 
folded on the upper deeper green surface, margins somewhat 
wavy, the tips twieted and recurved; the midvein yellowish; 
inflorescence odorless, clustered in the lesf axils or in 
the axils of their sears, the stolks and involueral bracts 
yellowish brown, the flowers yellow; style greenish; 
*Yabaraean, ” Todays, September, 1909. 
11737. Sryptocarya eubvelutina “lm. n. ap. Medium 
gized tree on a light forested ridge in fertile soil south 
of the Baruring river at 3500 feet; stem 30 feet high, 1 
foot thick, branched above the middle; wood moderately 
soft, reddim white, odorless and tasteless; bark greyish 
brown, smooth on obscurely lenticelled, dark reddish brown 
beneath the epidermis; branches mostly at the top, ascend- 
ing, the ultimate ones rather numerous, slender, green, 
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