12157.  Alsetonia mecerephylie Wallfe Small, tree in 
light woods or on steep grasay Blopes of shele roeks neer 
the see; wood white or greenish, soft, bitterish, without oder; 
perk browk, densely cheeked with grayish Llenticells; branches 
arrengea in subwhorls; the twige green and aseendingly curved, 
quite numerous; fruits green, terete, henging, a feot long; 
infloreseent stalks green &e is elso the calyx; corolla tube 
whitieh: the lebea white, rotately spresding, in the bud state 
$visted toward the right end with overlapfing margins; leaves 
ascending, variable in sise, deep shiny green on the upper 
shallowly gonduplicate surfece, much paler green beneath, their 
veins whitish; “Coaueau"; Homblon, Marchy 1910. 
12156,  terentime sphenciiens Bim Ephiphytic or 
pareaitic upon shruberries on oliffe neer the 508} stem somewhat 
running along ite host end et the base forminfonly * amd] 
elump which gives rise to numerous stems; stems prenched, 
epresding, less than « yerd sang) leeve pale green, on both 
aides, coriaceous, efuvingly conduplicate on the upper side; 
fruits elustered on short stems seattered along the prenches, 
perplie re¢ and covered with fine brown seurfy serles, slenderly 
pyriform 1/2 inch long; flowers 3/4 inch long, curved, at the 
apex 4— segmented, yeliowish brown on the outeide, purple 
on the interior; ovary green; atyie except the green base, 
purple, bearing a very deep purple etignus; short Filaments 
dark purple; senthers yellow, basifixed; "To-oyelo«-o1", 
Romblon, Moreh, 1910. 
121594 Tpomes congesta R, Br. Climbing and twining, 
herheceous, upon thickete inhabiting roeky outereppings; 
atems green, terete; petioles similar, ereet; blades necr.y 
flat, membrenons, slightly peler green beneath; inflorescence 
npon green peduncles equal the petioles, erising from the 
leaf sxils; pedicels, breete and ealyx green, the former 
erect; eorellia tube white, the 5 united lobes bright blue, 
nearly 3 inehes across the throst; pietil and stamens white; 
flowers with a faint sweet oder; Romblon, Merch, 1910. 
12160.  Pterocerpus indicus Willd, Small or larger 
trees on wooded cliff near the sea-coesat; wood whitish or 
reddish tinged, moderetely hard, odorless sndigmetax tasteless; 
atem 8 inches thick rather gnarly ené with mein brenches 
from the middle; brenehes ¢rookedly rebranched, forming & 
fliettish crown; berk oomperetively thick, yellowish gray, 
checked, reddish benesth the epidermis, eonteining « deep 
red juice; twigs green; leeves horizontal or descending; 
leaflets thinly corieseous, sublueid on both sides, paler 
ereen beneath; inflorescence esceniing, abeut 6 inches long, 
oscasionally 1 to S-branched, dark green; flowers descending; 
gorella light yellow, deciduous, delicate; filements green 
in the bud state, bearing saimon red anthers; "Hare." 
the wood is used for the construction of tebles ond other 
fixtures; Rosblon, mareh, 1910. 
12161. CGlerodendron macrostegium Sehaur, Shrub 10 
feet high, in © mixture of send and fine gyvevelly soil of 
gullies at 1000 feet; stem a few inches thick, branched from 
the middle; wood white, soft, oforless and tasteless, with e@ 

