. 12035, Loranthus hallieri Merr. 4amboanga, October, 
1909. 
(No description) 
12050. Alpinie romblonensis Elm. ne 8p» Large dense 
oluape in gravelly soil along stream banks near the see ievel; 
atems 5 or more feet long, 1/5 inch thiek, bulbose at the base, 
bractente cleex to the hase, connected with thick roots horizontal- 
ly rebrenched; leaflets alternate, 4 inches apart, the lower ones 
nore scattering and much reduced, horizontally spreading, very 
deap shining ereen on the tpper neerly flat surface, tips 
twisted and usually reovrved, the margins wavy; infloreseense 
terminal, spieate, pendulous, odorless; peduncle terete, 3 to 
4 inches long, green as is also the rachis whith is usually twice 
as long; calyx and flowers dull creamy yellow, helf succulent, 
the flowers divaricately sprending; fruit herd, deep green, 
1/2 inch in @iemeter, smooth; "Tagheg". Romblon, March, 1910. 
12060 a. Elscocarpus gitingensis Elm, me sp. A 
medium siged tree in the hill forests at 600 feet; #011 clayey and 
compact; stem 11/2 feet thick, 55 te 45 feet high, the main 
branches arising from below the middle; wooed burly and whitish 
at least on the outside, rather tough, oderless, tasteless; 
bark thiek, yellowish on the inmer side, grayish sand smooth on 
the epidermis: branches numerous, lax end widely spreeding; 
leaves submembranous, deecendingly reevurved especially toward 
the apex, mersins wavy, somewnat folded on the upper darker y 
green surface; inflorescence ascendingly spreeding, 811 — 
the stalks green; flowers odorous, pendulema, creamy white. 
except the green ovary, the brownish or grayish brown anthers 
and the deep yellow ‘ in the region between the petals and 
stemens; Magallanes, March, 1910. 
12051. Adina gerciae Elim, fs Bp. Medium sized tree in 
clayey compact soil of the hill woods at 500 feet; stem 6 
inches thiek or thicker, 30 or more feet high; branches above 
the midéle, ferming an elongated crown, the ultimete ones 
vether numerous; wood moderately hard and brittle, dingy 
white exeept the deep yellow central portion, cderless aud 
tasteless; bark whitish beneath the brown epidermis, coveret 
with whitieh usneliy horizontally arranged lenticels; leaves 
thinly coriseeous, ascending and foigéed on the upper side, 
tips reeurved, slightly paler green beneath; infrutescence 
from the upper leat axile; peduncles gtrict, pale green, 
aseending; hesds globose, less than 1/2 ineh in diameter, 
also pale green; the minute seeds brown, flat, with terminal 
appendeges; heeds solid bat vhen mature the individual parts 
become easily deteched; “Dunpilen "3; Magelleanes, March, 1910. 
12082. Hiptage cumingii Merr. A tough seandent shrub 
in thiekets at 500 feet, in clayey veddish s0ii1; stem 1 1/2 
inch thick, terete, flexible; the wood sordid white, odorless 
and tasteless; ‘berk brown wkkk and grey mixed, covered with 
lenticells, green benesth the epidermis; branches slender and 
half droeping, not numerous; leaves coriaceous, folded upon 
the upper side, shiny, slightly paler beneath; young leaves 
reddish browm; eslyx reddish brown; eorolle greenish or the 
upper segment yellowish; filaments and pistil greenish; 
anthers bright yellow; the fruit wings reddish; there is 4 
sonspicnous green sessile obiong disk or gland on the upper 
side end just beneath the flower over which the three upper 
petals fold rather securely when in the reflexed stage of 
anthesis; flowers odorless. Magallanes, March, 1910. _ 

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