12143. Gelonium trifidus Elms. Me SPs Shrub 15 
feet long, hanging from the stone gravelly banks of the Paualae 
fiver at 1250 feet: satem a few inches thick, branched from 
the middle; brenches widely spreading, rebrenched; wood moderately 
soft or hard rather, whitish, odorless end tasteless; bark 
ameoth, brown; leaves coriaceous, descending, favt, lucid 
bright green above, duller and a trifle peler green beneath; 
inflorescence #xillery, upon stout recurved branchlets; flowers 
rigid, cadueous, upon short pale green pedicels; ealyx 5-segnented, 
greenish{ corolla white, of 5 free petals; stamens of the 
game amber, anthers yellowish, filaments greenish, superior 
ovary greenish white; Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12143 as Asterina elmeri. Sydise NOV. specs On leaves 
of mumber 12142 a. Champereia fragilis Elm. forming irregular 
eoal black patehes on both sides, the Cireuler spore Gases 
deeper black and seattered about in the center of the colony; 
"Batak"; only the ol@ lesves are infested; Magallanes, 
March, 1 910. 
12144.  Callicerpa elegans Hayek. Very lax shrub 5 
feet high or higher, on stone gravelly soil of the Pauala 
river at 1250 feet; wood soft, sappy white, é@orless and 
tasteless; bark smooth, grayish white; branches arising from 
below the middle, slender, Bax, rebranched; leaves mearly 
flat, chiefly horizontel, shiny bright green above, duller 
and paler geexR green beneath, coriaceous; inflorescence 
axillery, ®l11 the stalks derk purplish blue, the calyx more of 
a greenish tinge in the blue; corella and filaments blue, 
style whitish, stigma greenish, anthers deep yellow, odorless; 
fruits henging, globose, 1/4 inch across, subtended by the 
persistent green enlyx; very pretty? Magellenes, April, 1910. 
| -agn4aa® = Homonoda riparia Lowr, Shrubs 3 to 9 feet high, 
with several 1 to 3 inches thick stems in the same Gluster, 
in sand gravelly soil of the Paueala river hed at 760 feet; the 
gtems branched from nesr the bese, rebranched and widely 
spreading (not wilike "willows" of a shrubby nature); wood 
| very soft, whitish, without odor or taste; park emooth, brown, 
with a green layer beneath the epidermis; leaves slightly 
ascending, nearly flat, membranous; shiny deep green above, 
grayish green beneath; spikes striet, ascending, brownish or 
reddish brown, odorless; Magallanes, March, 1910. 
12145.  Ganarium purpurevm Elm. n. sp. (flowers) 
4 burly tree in a gravelly subsoil of a wood bank along the 
Pausle viver at 750 feet or where the south fork divided; atem 
burly, move or less grooked, 1 foot thick, 25 feet high or 
higher, brenched above the middle; moderately hard wood 
odorless and tasteless, reddish toward the center; bark amoothish 
or sealing in small plates, grayish white, reddish brown beneath 
the epidermis; branchlets widely spreading, the ultimate ones 
guite slender end lex; twigs green, suberect; leaves mainly 
horigzontel or ascendingly recurved; lesflets recurved, folded 
upon the dark shiny green surface, much peler green beneath; 
inflorescence ascendingly spresding, the stalks as well 68 
the petioles smooth and reddish; calyx of the same eolor; 
éorolla and stamens pale yellow, ovary orange red; "Ma gosayong" 3 
Magallanes, March, 1910. 2 

