ALT1Cs Pitheeclobium apoen@e Wlite Ne SPs th humid 
forests of low fertile flats at 4000 feet, near the Meinit 
ereek; trunk 3c feet high, 10 inehes thick, brenched above the 
me igh Pansy yellowi#h or areyish on the branches, on the 
stem obsourely lenticellei; wood coersely grained, odorless 
and tasteless or nearly 60, white on the outside, molasses 
ikieex brown toward the center, soderately hard; branches 
comparatively Short, erookedly rebranched; leaves chartaceous, 
horigental or descending, usually concave on the lower lighter 
ereen Surface, obscurely recurved; inflorescence clustered 
along the branchlets, the green Stalks from 1 to 7 inches 
oe ealyx light areen, petals creamy white, filaments white 
and bearing creamy white antherS; “Magat-carot." Pedaya, 
September, 1909+ : 
11711.  Gyrtanére mindensensis Elm. my Sp. Sparingly 
branched shrub 6 feet high, in moist humus covered fertile 
8011 of dente woods at 4000 feet; atm Stem terete, reclining, 
1 inmeh thick, sovered with yellowish Bmoothish or ainutely 
ghecked or crooked bark, the tips and branches suberect; 
leaves heavy, half sueculent, toward the ends of the branchlets, 
horizontal, dull green above, paler green beneath with the — 
eonspicuews veins brown pubescent, concave beneath; inflores- 
cence axiliary, ascending, greenish; "Poseng-posong;" 
fodaya, weptember, 1IOCI. 
11712.  Mlaeocerpus baclayanensis Him. Mediu siged 
tree, 50 feet high with e @ feet thiek @tem whieh 18 somewhat 
tattressed mt the bese, in fertile humus covered 8011 of 
fiats in humid forests et 4000 feet; branches widely Spread~ 
ing toward the top or sbove the middle; bark brown with 
lengitudinal rows of coarse lenticellis, smoothish and aray 
on the brenches, yellowish beneath the epidermis; wood white, 
light, moderately soft and niee to work; without odor or taste; 
twigs rather slender, flexible, ess®cending; leaves ascending 
er horisonte] with recurved tips, deeply conduplieste on the 
upper darker and sublucid surface; beneath paler and finely 
pubescent; the veins yellowish, amply provided with exiliary 
‘@lends; infratescence dull green and finely pubescent, 1 to 
5 inches jong; fruits globose, 1/2 ineh in diemeter, herd and 
dark green: fodaye, September, 1909. 
11714. Gelamus monillensis Wendl. Looping and ¢limbing 
to the tops of the highest trees and extending (oeca®ionaliy) 
far beyond them, in dense huaid forest® along the Mainit 
eveok at 4000 feet; o14 stem from 1 te @ inches thick, hard, 
Smooth, deep or Somewhat glaucous areen, the leat bearing 
portion at least & inches es Sheaths dull green, evenly 
covered with comparatively short irregulerly Scattered dull 
rey wus brown Spines; leaves horizontelly recurved, 10 
feet long, with an equelly long (or nearly 80) hooked angular 
flageliae; pessate (peduncle) proper 1 1/2 foot, long, 
flattened, 1 1/2 inches wide at the base; rachis below the 
middle smooth beneath and spinescent above, toward the apex 
smooth above and hooked beneath; leaflets ascending from the 
bese; Seon recurved and hanging, tough and similarly dull — 
green on both sides, rether evenly seattered; iafruteseence 
aseendingly recurved, axiliery, § feet long, dull deep green 
and becoming covered with a copper brown coat in places, 
branehed from below the middle, ite sheaths spinulese, the 
branches freely rebranched into 6 inches long ed ultimate 
fruit besring spikes; fruite nearly globose, 1/2 inch in ; 
diameter, thing shining light green except the brown margined 
seales; “Serani;" Yodaya, July, 1909s: 
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