12136. tochnere rosee (L.) Rei¢hb. Perennial herbs, 
forming greet masses in sandy soil noer the beech; stem usually. 
reclining, ultimately erect, only few branched from the middle, 
terete, quite teugh, turning red as also the ascending branches; 
Leaves mostly ascending, membranous, lighter green beneath, 
filet but the sides usually undulste end more or leas eurveda 
upon the underside; flowers few at & time, fron the terminal 
leaf axils, erect, delicate; calyx creen, the odrolla tube 
yellowish so; the 5 flat segments rotetely spreading, pink 
above, Whitish se beneath, the throat very deep red; the pale 
yellow enthers seseile upon the expanded terminal portion of 
She corolla tube; fruits green, ascending, subterete, strict, 
1 ineh long, @-celled (7) many-seeded; an everlesting 
bloomer! Megellanes, April, 1910. 
12136 &. Cratoxylon formosum (Jack.) Dyer. Slender 
erect tree in send gravelly sokl in the flat 4% the south fork 
of the Pauale river at 750; stem 6 inches thick, £0 feet 
high, ite mein branches srising below the middle; wood 
moderately hard end heavy, whitish on the outside, darker 
toward the center, odorless, bitterish; bark yellowish gray, 
finely echeeked, seeling in small plates, yellowish benes th 
the epidermis and with a visoid similarly colored juice; 
mein branches erect, the tumerous branchlets spreading at the 
top; bark on crooked branchlets smooth sad whitish; young - 
leaves red on both sides, no old ones present; flowers 
delicete, odorless, in small clusters from the fallen leaf 
axils; pedicels yellowish green turn deep red when exposed; 
eelyx similar; petals 5, rose red, except the whitish basal 
portion waich bears @ similarly colored claw at the upper 
immer side; filements numerous, white, the greater portion 
mited into & similarly colored 3 flattened staminoies; 
enthers pale yellow; the 3 staminodes alternating with 3 
deep reé glends ebout the base of the ovary; ovary elonge ted, 
yellowish, bearing 3 divericately yeourved styles similar in 
eolor but which termiate with greenish stigmas; ovary 
S-celled; old capsules 1 inch long, erect, split from 
the apex to the base into 5 sarpels yather ligneous in structure; 
Magallanes, March, 19106 
12137, Pygeum gitingense Plite Ne Gps Smell trees 
in moiet gravelly soil on wooded banks of the Pauala river 
at 750 feet above the south fork; stem 20 feet high, & inches 
thiek, branched above the middle; wood herd, reddish toward 
the center, heavy, oderless and tasteless; bark smoothish, 
grayish brown twigs numerous, 16x; leaves ascending, 
coriaceous or subchartaceous, ecurvingly conduplicate on the 
upper shining very much deeper green surface, apex usually 
twisted; fruits globose, 1/2 inch thick, upon 1 inch brown 
colored stalks, whitish, or yellowish white, bright red end 
shining black on the same thee; seed solitery ? globose; 
Magellanes, March, 1910. 
12137 a. Alyxia sibuyanensia Elm. a. Spe A geandent and 
sprawling @limber on shruberries of wooded banks near &@ seepage 
gravelly seil of the Pauala river et 1000 feet; stem bendable, 
terete, 1/2 ineh thick, with soft pale white wood and a larce 
pith; bark grayish, amooth or peeling in thin flakes, white 
beneath the epidermis, full of latex; branches few, widely 
spreading, sparingly branched, slender and more or less hanging; 
lesves in wherles, ascending, flat, more or less recurved, thick 
and rigid, pale green above, much paler or yellowish green 
beneath; infrutescence exillisry, spreading, upon short peduncles, 
few brenched, the orange red or ultimetely wine colored fruits 
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