12149, Parslstenia clusiacea Bails Stunted tree in 
shallow soil upon a gravelly or stony subsoil, near the Puuela 
river flat at 760 feet; stem 10 inches thiek, 20 feet high, 
aivided below the middle; branches freely rebranched, subver- 
tieillately erranged; twigs 1/2 inch thick, green, subereet 
or ancendingly curved; wood dull yellowish, molerately soft, 
purly, odorless, slightly bitter; bark reletively thick, 
yellowish gray, deeply and eoarsely cheeked, yellow on the 
inner side; leaves crowded at the ends of the twigs, coriseeous, 
herizonteal, recurved, folded upon the upper deep green sné gub- 
yueid eurface, much lighter green benesth; inflorescence erect, 
termini, /(dyuslly S-stelked, eli its stalks green} calyx 
yellowish; “corolls ereot, white, the 5 lobes imbricetely twisted 
towerd the right; flowers odorless, juice white & sticky; 
anthers upon shert greenish filaments inserted upon the eorolla 
gube a trifle below the throat; “Alibutebut." Magelianes, 
March, 1910+ 
12149 bs  Rugenta mimiea Merr., ‘Small shrubs or 
stunted trees in send gravelly soil elong the Pausle river 
from 760 feet and higher; stem a few inches thick, 9 feet 
high, branched from near the pase, the ultimately ones erooked, 
relatively short, lex; wood herd, reddish brown exeept the 
thin whitish saprood, heavy, edorless and tasteless; berk smooth 
or seeling in thin plates, grayish white; lesves coriaceous, 
‘nearly flat, mach lighter or yellowish green beneath; fruita 
ellipsoid, 1/2 inch long, shining purplish black, edible 
put with a dry sordid taste; Vvevo-lLumboy"; Magallanes, 
12450. Cliadium juncoides Elm, Me De . Benge tufts 
1 1/2 foot aeross in wet sandy soil amongst river bottom 
stones at 760 feet or higher of the Panele river; stems erect, 
® feet high, streight, entirely eovered by the ensiform leaf 
bases, terminated by a strict penicle; leaves copious, much” 
aeeending, thickly eorl aceous, similerly glaucous green on 
beth sides, that portion on the stem deeply foléied and 
imbricately sheathing the stem; panicle green except the 
prown sheath margins and apikelets; "Hagod=tengiad"; Magallanes, 
Mareh, 1910+ 
42161. Olax imbricata Roxb, A tough sprewling shrub, 
in shale soil of a steep slope ner the sea; wood moderately 
hard, greenish white; odorless and tasteless; bark amooth, 
grayish brown; branches widely spreeding; leaves coriaceous, 
dessendingly curved, folded upon the upper shining end much 
deeper green surface; inirutescence axillary; fruits 3/4 
ineh in diameter, globose, pele green, pendulous from the 1 
to 3 inches long greenish staiks; "Relegon"; O14 wood yellowish 
white, sweetish, 3 inehes thick; Rombion, March, 1910. 
12152 Fegreee obovate Yall, Shaub 8 feet high, in 
shruberries on cliffe ent dipping inte the tide water; etem a 
few inches thick, terete, branched from nesr the bese; branch- 
lete quite slender, thiek, heavy, usually curved and with 
ascending tips; weed sort, porous, aull white, odorless, with 
s faint sweetish teste; bark smooth, yellowish to gray; leaves 
spreading, thickly coriseceous, & trifle peler beneath, flat; 
fruite terminal, shiny deep green, the whitish mest viseid 
and ¢onteins numerous smal) brown seeds, usually 1 to 3 fruits 
to each twig; Romblon, March, 1910. a 
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