12147, Mugenie erassipes ©, Be Rov. Erect shrub 
in gravelly soil along the wooded banks of the Pausiea river 
near the junction of the south fork at 750 feet; stem 18 
fect high, 6 inches thick, branched from below the middle; 
wood dingy white or brownish, rather soft, odorless and — 
tasteless; bark yellowish, brown, ameoth; branchlets quite 
mmerous, sprecding, rather slender; leaves coriacéous, deep 
and shining green above, much paler or yellowish green beneath, 
fist or folded toward the recurved apex, the largest ones 
a foot long snd fully 6 inehes seross the middle or just below 
this; buds obevoid; young infruseseence terminal or laterel, 
usually in 3's; the green pedicels 1/6 inch long; calyx 
yellowish green, gradually tapering from the base to the rin 
which is 1 inch AGrosss ovary end persistent style dull white, 
the ovary rim green; Mabuyabeas"; Magallanes, Marah, 1910. 
12147e.  FPloecglottis mindorensis Ames. Rerres trial 
eluaps or tuftlets in well drained fertile soil of dense woods 
near the Pavala river at 1000 feet; roots whitish; pseudebulbs 
slightly thickened, covered with mereescent sheaths; stems 
erect, terminating 1 to 5 leaves; leaves coriaceous, ascending 
or only slightly recurved, shining deep green above, paler 
beneath and with prominent pacallel veins; peduncle erising 
from the top of the paeudobub, strict, purplish, bracteste, 
beering & spike of flowers ®t the top; flowers odorless, early 
felling, divarieately spreeting, yellow and minutely spotted, 
the subtending braetsa purplish; Magellanes, April, 1910. 
12146. Timonius gamillii Elm. Shrub-like tree in clay 
peil with 8 gravelly subsoil along the Pauala river wooded 
panks at 760 feet; wood bitterish, pele or yellowish white, 
odorless, quite hard; bark amoothish, conspicuously mottled; 
_ gtem 4 inehes thick, 15 fect high, branched toward the top; 
branchlets slender, laxly spreading, the twigs dark reddish brown; 
jesves slightly escending, shellowLly conduplicate on the upper 
sphining deep green; duller and paler green beneath, corisceous; 
inflorescence @ivarieate from the leaf axils, all its stalks 
| with the calyx green; corolla yellowish above the greenish 
pagal one half, the 4 thick segments rotately apreading, 
1/2 ineh long, the anthers deep yellow; *Otog-otog"; Magellanes, 
Merch, 1910. 
12148 a. Tasianthus everettii Merr. A lax under~ 
shrub in good well éraim 4 soil of forests at 1000 feet near 
the base of mount Getling; stem terete, averaging 1/2 ineh ~ 
thiek, end 6 feet high; wood sappy white, with a Zarge 
greenish pith, breaking with &® smep, covered with smooth green 
bark; branches towerd the top, divariecate, unbranched, green; 
the soft membranous leaves similarly apreading, with tips 
reeurved, shining pleasing green apove, paler beneath; bracts 
of the exillary inflorescence folisceous and similar in texture; 
odorless flowers parellel with the axis, the calyx greenish; 
corolla white, soft, tubuler below the middle, infleted above, 
5egeamented; the 5 stamens cresmy white, inserted sessily upon 
the throat of the inflated or rather the tubular portion; style 
similer in color, stigua @ull brown; fruits light blue, sessile, 
1/2 inch long, nearly #s wide seross the truncate apez, tapering 
from base to apex, soft and bladdery, without odor, with 5 
brown stony seeds; Magallanes, April, 1910. 

