12085. fydneearpus quadrasii Elm, nm. 8p. Stunted tree, 
15 feet high, with a 7 inch thick stem, in turf soil slong 
the Pavala river et 500 feet; main branches crooked, arising 
from the middle, freely rebranched; wood moderately hard 
and heavy, odorless, slightly eweet in taste, yellowish or 
seppy white; berk erayish white mottled, sm@oth on thé branches, 
thinly checked on the stem, reddish beneath the epidermis; 
leaves chertaceous, ample, descending, scurvingly conduplicate on 
the upper very Gerk and lucid surfece, usually recurved and 
twisted toward the apex; the odorless flowers caducous, upon 
axillary triads; stelks and calyx green; the 5 petals 
watery white, each enfolding @ yellowish brown thick gland; 
stamens erect, 5, the filemente green, the anthers yellowish brown, 
style also greenish; Magallanes, March, 1910. 
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12086. Sideroxylon pittosporifolium Him. Stunted 
tree in tur? soil slonz the banks of the Pausle river at 
500 feet: stem 15 feet high, 8 inches thick, scrookedily 
branched from the middle; weod odorless, sappy or dingy 
white, moderately hard an@ heevy, ® trifle sweet; bark 
amooth, grayish white, creen beneath the epidermic, otherwise 
whitish: twigs numerous, relatively ahort and forming & dense 
crown; leaves ascendingly recurved, coriaceous folded upon 
the upper slightly greener surface; inflorescence divaricate, ktm 
the greenish pediceis arising from the leaf axils; calyx also 
greenish: style, stigma, short filaments and corolla pale 
greenish white, the anthers yellowish; flowers odorless, of 
short duration and subpendulous; Magallanes, Merch, 1910. 
12087,  Gapellie sibuyanensis Elm, n. sp. Shrub 7 
feet high, in red oley near the Penala river bank at 500 
feet; stems several or rather branched from the base; 
branches rigid, numerpously rebranched; wood moderately hard 
ang heavy, sappy white, cdorless, with « faint sweet taste; 
bark smooth, greyish brown, when 014 apparently sealing in 
plates; twigs reletively short, erect or nearly so; leaves 
crowded toward the ends, ascending, rigidly chartacecus, 
shining deep green oh the upper folded surface, much lighter 
green beneath; inflorescence terminal, erect, solitary, the 
peduncle greenish, the subglobose buds reddish brown, the 
sepals becoming reflexed; petals 5, caducous, lemon yellow, 
obovately oblong, 1 1/2 inch long, 3/4 inch wide above the 
mid@le; stamens numerous, the ascending filaments yellow; 
anthers dark purple; the ridged ovary bright red; the 
pe ha stigmatie eppendages whitish,  Magellenes, March, 
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12088. Combretum squamosum Roxb. A flexible scandent 
shrub in elay soil of shruberries along the Pauala river bank 
at 500 feet; stem 1 inch thick et least, terete, freely 
branched toward the top; the brenches slender and forming dense 
interlaced masses; wood very flexible, soft, porcus, yellow, 
Slightly foetid, nearly tasteless; old bark comparatively 
thick, deeply shredded longitudinally, dark brown; coriaceous 
leaves horizontel or deseending, usually conduplicate on the 
uppex side, tips atrongly recurved, greyish green beneathj 
infrutescence terminal or from the upper leef axils, rather 
short and few branched, crest; fruits 3/4 inch long, green 
but with age and exposure turming reddish, deeply 4-winged, 
ellipsoid in outline; Magallanes, March, 1910. 
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