LELOZ « Intsia bijugea O. K. Large tres, 45 feet high, 
with a & 1/2 foot thiek stem, in semewhat sandy soil of woods 
pordering meedows near the beach; wood in the branches whitiagh, 
coarsely fibrous, soft, odorless and tasteless; bark on the 
pranches light bray and brown lenticelled, the ola bark peeling 
jn plates; branches arising frem the middle, the ultimate 
ones patidely spresding; twigs green; leaves smooth, sublucid, 
goriaceous, darker green above, the margins or sides coarsely 
wavy; ainfloreseence torminal, ascending, forming a flattish 
corymb legs sss : only the banner 
possibig 
appendages; 
a much deeper red stigma; 
1 inch longs, 1/2 inch wide, 
epducous, sweetly frasrant; 
12104. Gerdenia lonciflore Vid. Shrub-like tree, in 
fertile well drained scil in shruberries of grass lands in the 
hills at 750 feet; stem 4 inches thick, 15 feet high, branched 
above the middle; wood sappy white, moderately seft, doorless 
end tasteless; bark smoothish, yellowish gray; branches 
ascending, quite numerous, forming an elongated dense crown; 
ieavas B1g0 ascending, conduplicate on the upper shiny 
surface, paler green beneath, tips more or teas reourved, 
gubchartaceous; flowers solitery, erect; ¢Galyx green, 
1 inch long; ¢orolla tube cylindric, pale green, 6 inches 
long, strict; the 10 segments 2 1/2 inches long, oblique and 
rotetely spreading, creamy white but soon turning to a very 
deep yellow; anthers of the esme number, prownish white; 
style white, bearing « thick clevete stigme more or less 
LlO-striate and of the same color ae the sessile stamens; 
flowers fregrent, and the whole trim shrub or tree makes & 
gtriking appeerance; Megellenes, March, 1910. 
12104. feeocerpus verticellatus Zlm. ny sp. Medium 
gized tree along wooded streams et 750 feet, in foist gravelly 
soil; stem 20 feet high, 1 1/2 foot thick, branched from the 
middie or ehove this; wood whitish, moderately soft, odorless, 
with slight bitter taste; bark brown; snoothish; Limbs 
widely apreading, freely rebrenched; twigs lax and ascending, 
usually arranged in subwherles (the terminsl one short, the lateral 
one or ones longe); leaves subchsrteceous, ascending or 
horizontal, shallowly folded upon the upper side, the apex 
recurved, dull green above, & trifle paler beneath, crowded at 
the ends of the branchlets ani appearing as in wharles; 
inflorescence immediately beneath the foliage, #11 the stelks 
pele green; flowers pendulous, slightly fragrent; petals, 
sepals, filaments and style white; anthers yellowish brown; 
ovary ereen; fruits 3/4 inch long, perfectly ellipsoid, 
groen, rather young; Magallanes, Maren, 1910. 
12105,  Commerconia pletyphylls Anfr,  Shrub-like tree, 
in fertile compact soil of light wooda or shruberrics about 
gress fields at 750 feet; woot sort, white, light, without odor 
nor taste; hark esally pealing, brown, roughened with whitish 
lenticelks; branches ehove the middle of the £0 feet high 
xhexe tux stem, the ultimate ones slender, lax; leaves sort 
membranous, chiefly toward the ends of the branchlets, deep 
green above, grayish white or green beneath, the sides rolled 
upon the upper side in very hot days; inflorescence from the 
upper leaf axils, the yellowish green aseending and divaricately 
brenehed stalks forming flet corymbs; flowers slightly fragrant, 
705 

