) 12123.  Linociera philippinensis Merr. Small trees in 
rich moist soil of a swampy wooded flat in or about 500 feet 
altitude; stem 86 inches thick, 24 feet high; main branches 
arising from the middle, ascending, finally numerously branched; 
wood burly, moderately hard and heavyg reddish, bitterish, 
odorless; bark grayish brown, coarsely lenticelied, that on 
the branchlets gray and smooth; leaves nearly flat, reeurved 
toward the apex, thickly coriaceous, deep green above, much 
lighter and pleasing green benesth, the thickened gray petiole 
upwardly curved; inflorescence axillery or from the axils of 
the fallen leaves, subtended by dry brown bracts, pale or 
yellowish green; Magallanes, March, 1910. 
121245 Lentinus Elmeri Gress ne Sp» Upon the upper 
surface of a nearly decayed log lying in meadows at £50 feet 
altitude; stalk grafted inte the bark, subterete, 1/2 inch 
long, neatly as thick, spongy, yekikewkukxebita dirty white 
and scurfy: cap also spongy, yellowish white or brown, the 
upper surface densely scurfy, coarsely rugose with margins 
mush recurved; Magallanes, Merch, 1910. 
12125. loranthus estipitetus Stapf.  Epiphytie shrub 
upon the lower limbs of small trces standing alone in meadows 
at 250 feet; stem terete, less than 1/2 inch thick, creeping 
along its host, branched; wood white, tough, odorless ant. 
tasteless; bark dark brown, lenticelled; branches freely 
rebranched, and forming dense masses; leaves coriaceous, 
shining, usually folded and reourved; flowers le to 3, axillary, 
ascending or erect; corolla 1 imeh long, slightly curved, 
yellowish below the middie, greenish brown toward the apex, 4+ 
lobed, the tube split down alone the lower side; the adnate 
filaments deep red; anthers yellowish brown on the inner side, 
purple on the bakk; stigma and @tyle similer in color except 
the green basel portion; ovary green, rugose; inferior; 
fruits ahfgt ¢llipsoid, strongly gugose (almost as a"mulberry") 
less than 1/2 inch long, leseeded, soft sweet and quite juicy; 
Magallanes, March, 1910. 
12126. Palaqnium bataanense Merr,  Hrect tree in 
fertile soil of wooded banks along the Pauale river at 500 feet; 
stem 25 feet high, 10 inches thick, terete, ite main branches 
arising from below the middle or above this; wood moderately 
hard, sappy white, odorless, slightly bitter; bark checked, 
grayish bfown mottled, contains latex, smocth on the branches; 
branches widely meagre [ freely rebranched, the twigs ascending- 
ly curved; leaves thickly coriaceous, shiny very deep green 
above, much lighter beneath, horizontel or recurved; flowers 
in snall eludters, mainly in the exiles of the fallen ieaves; 
the greenish pedicels reeurved toward the distal end; calye 
of the seme color; the 6 segments of the corolla green, 
ite short tube whitish; stamens double the number, their filaments 
whitish and inserted upon the throat of the eerolla; style of 
the seme color, ovary more yellow; flowers odorless; anthers 
yellowish white. Magrllenes, March, 1910. 

