12096, Chamber@ie fragilis Blm. ns sp. Small quite 
gnarly appearing tree, in half sandy 3011, between the beach 
and @ mangrovesswamp: stem 6 inches thick, mostly branched 
above the middle; branches relatively short forming an 
elongated ¢rown, crooked, very ridigid ond breaking with a 
snap, hari; wood heavy, herd, brittle, dingy white or more 
yellowish toward the center, odorless, tastes sometthat salty; 
bark smooth, yellowish: twigs green; ‘eaves horizontal or 
descending, thinly coriaceous, shiny on beth sides, folded 
upon the upper surfaée, tips twisted and recurved, margins 
senspisuously wavy; infloreaeence yellowish green, ascending; 
the minute oderless flowers, ereenish yellow exeept the pale xackiku 
yellow anthers; fruits ellipsoid, 1/2 inch long, lemon yellow, 
l-seeded, smooth; Magallanes, March, 1910. 
12099. <Adenenthere intermedia Merr. A medium sized 
tree in high woods skirting grass lands near the coast; main 
branches large, arising from below the middle, widely spreading; 
stem 1 1/2 foot thick; wood odorless and tasteless, soft, 
course refidigh towar@ the center, ctherwise pale white; 
perk brown, smoothish or roughened with lenticels; branches 
crooked, also spreading; leaves submembranous, obliquely 
horizental, flat, paler green beneath; peniecle sparingly 
bpilobed, aseending, terminal, green except the yellowish red 
corolla on the outer side, flesh red on the inner, pink 
filaments and yellowish brown anthers; pistil also reddish; 
flowers odorless; Magellanes, March, 1910. 
12100. CGarallia integerrima DO, Rather smell erect 
tree in woods at sea-level, bordering meadows of compact 
soil: atem 7 inches thick, 25 feet high, terete; branches 
above the middle, forming a dense elongeted crown; wood heavy, 
moderately herd, dingy white but turning to a reddish tinged 
yellow when exposed, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, 
gray and brown mottled; twigs numerous, sacending or horizontal, 
the younger portion green; lebes coriaceous, similarly sjr eading, 
very deep shiny green on the upper folded side, yellowish 
green beneath, the short tips reeurved; inflorescence axillary; 
the style pistil or rather the stigma, calyx end all the stalks 
ereen; fetals white; ovary rim yellow, the anthers of a 
much paler yellow; ripe fruit subglobose, 1/2 inch across, 
wine ved, the thick meat quite juicy end of the same color; 
sess brown, solitery [?) or at least Separted; Magallanes, Merch, 
91LG6 
12101. whimacie cuspideta (Wall.) H. et {. A twining 
climber, in thickets bofdering meadows near the coast, in 
somewhat sandy compact soll; stem 3/4 inch thick, terete, 
branched mostly toward the top; dirty white wood flexible, 
porous, odorless and tasteless; berk green, covered with 
brownish lenticells, smooth on the branches; twigs slender, 
forming tangled masses, the free termimel ends more or less 
drooping end Lloriferous; leaves strongly folded om the upper side 
descending, tips reourved, a trifle paler beneath; inflorescence 
With a faint oder, all the stalks greenish, the flowers yellow 
exeept the anthers which are of a dark brown color; leaves 
coriaceous oy aubchartaceous; Megallanes, March, 1910. 

