well constricted and connected by yellow connectives; "Haping;" 
Magallanes, April, 1910+ 
12128.  Teranthus haenkeanus Presi. Climbing upon 
shrubs atandine upon e sand eravelly flat along the Pauala 
river at 750 feet; stem 1/2 inch thiek, more or lees creeping 
and brenched: wood hard, brittie, reddigh, old bark gray and 
peeling in thin plates, thet on the branches smooth; leaves 
coriaceous, recurved, pale areen on both sides, the margins more 
or less wavy; inflereseence seminxk pendulous from the sten; : 
ealyx velvety very dark red, the pedicels of the same color; 
-gorolla bright red except the 5 greenish segments; suceulent 
filaments ereamy yellow, snthers greenish; style pink, the 
stigma very deep red; Magellanes, March, 19106 
12188 a Gywnecramthera paniculata (D0,) Warth. Medium 
sized tree in a moist atone gravelly seil of wood bank alone 
the Pauala river at 1600 feet; stem 1 1/2 foet thick, 40 feet 
high, terete, branched from the middle; branches horizontally 
spreading, she witimate ones numerous and lex and somewhat 
@rocping; coringeous Leaves descending, Shiny deep green 
above, glaneous beneath, folded upon the upper side and with 
reeurved tips; infrutescence leteral on the branchlets, in 
enall groups, upon 1 te 5 inches long sparingly branched 
stalke, greenish yellow, gubglobose or short ellipsoid; nut 
with bright red meat sunken into its nutemeg-like groves; 
wood moderstely hard, reddish, more or less burly, odorless, 
eo bark yellowish aray, smoothish. Magallanes, april, 
1910« 
12159.  Mieromelua tephrocarpum Gure Ze A shrubby tree 
in stone gravelly so11 along tho wooted banke of the Paunla 
river at 1506 feat; branches above the middle of the 16 feet 
high stem ena 2 ineh thiek stem, erookedly rebranched, wood 
delicate white, moderately sax solid and hard, odorless and 
tasteless; bark smecth, thin, brown; twigs green; leaves. 
aseendinaly spreading, the dark green yachis terete; leaflets 
eoriaceous, descending, dark green above, much lighter beneath, 
heavy; inirutescense erect or ascending, averaging 6 inches 
‘long, terminal, ali the steliks and calyx green; fruits ovoidiy 
elongated, less than 1/2 inch long, white punctate, containing 
dark green convoluted ectyledones; Magallanes, April, 1910+ 
12159 oe.  Pendanus mapole Hart. Re SPs low numerousiy 
branched shrub in compact fertile soil near “nipa” swemps at 
oe feet aititude; stem 3 inches thick at least, suberect, 
usually few to several from the game cluster, 4 to 6 feet high 
or even less, terete, yellowish aray, ringed every 1/8 to 3/4 
inch, beset with blunt spines, repeatedly rebranched, the 
Latter with the copious leaves forming dense jungles; leaves 
erowded, ascendina, the apical portion or one third deflexed, 
3 to 6 feet lone, Somewhat paler green beneath, eaniculate on 
the upper side especially toward the base, sherply serrate alone 
the edges, seabrous. salons the apical median line peneath the 
blade; infrutescence terminal, upon 1 foot long recurved 
trianeuler peduncle usually provided with follaceous bracts; 
heads & to 7 or more, the terminal ones ripening ani failing 
earlier, dull brick red, sessile, ¢triangularly ovoid. "“Mapola." 
Megellanes, March, 1910. 
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