lerge wrown pith; berk emooth, greenish; leaves limp, 
slightly descending, samewhat folded upon the upper darker 
green surfece; inflorescence secending, stelxa greenish, 
preete purplish blue exeept the whitith tips; celyx more 
white; e@orelle pure white, except the purplish throat; - 
pistil end filements similerly white, the versatile anthers 
purplish brown; "Payi-payi." Rombion, March, 1910¢ 
12168,  varinerium griffithienus Benth. free Bb 
feet high with a foot thick stem, in half sandy end gravelly 
soil aleng the ereek bottom; mein branche@ from the middle, 
widely sprecding, twige rather numerous and forming dense 
bushes; wood odorless and tasteless, moderately hard and 
prittle, dull white, with a reddich tinge toward the center; 
park brittle, grey, smoothieh, reddish brown beneath the 
epidermis; leaves descending, folded upon the upper much 
darker green surface, coriseeous; inflorescence erect, 
eli the stalks pele green; calyx greenish gellow; sorclia 
aveenish white; filements and pistil pele white, anthers 
pale yellow; "Baco-ceyon"; Romblon, March, 1910s 
12163.  iyloeerpus grenetun Koenig. Shrub 10 feet 
high, in shrubberies bordering the seo; wood rather soft, 
white or with e small red central portion, odorless, with 
a faint sweet taste; berk amooth or roughened with minute 
lenticels, erey to brown in color; branches spreading, 
erect or more spreading; leave chiefly «t the ends of the 
twigs, spresding horizontally; leaflets coriaceous, the 
sides twisted end folded upon the upper side, sacoth on both 
sides, deeper green above; inflorescence terminal or le terél, 
@ll the diverging stelke green; calyx greenish yellow; petals 
end etaminel tube ple white, enthers yellowish brown, 
saperior ovary end style whitiah, tae later bearing 4& yellow 
atigna, the callous ria ebeut the ovary deep red; “Beean"; 
Romblon, March, 1910. 
12164, Spondias (7) romblenensis Hla. ns ap. 
A goerly tree, 18 feet high, on rocky cliffs near the see- 
Goast; stem 4 inches thick, branched from below the middle; 
branches rather short, few, thiek; wood whitish, odorless, 
sourish, aoderately hard; leaves crowded toward the end of the 
branchlets, aseendingly recurved; peticle much thickened 
at the base, finely lenticelled, leaving large oval scars after 
falling; leeflets dewcending, dark lucid green above, much 
lighéer green beneath; inflorescence usually alterne ting 
with the leevea, shorter, all the atelks greenish; 8lyx 
yellowish green or whitish; petels whitieh; overy and anthers 
orange yellow; filements pinkish; “"Boelabog".----- young 
berk eontsine wilky jaice.  Romblon, Mareh, 1910. 
12165,  Peyehettte lugoniensia Vil, Sreet shrub, in 
elif? shrubberies near the sea~coast; wood quite hesvy, white 
yet with « faint pink, odorless ané testelesa; bark brown 
and gray mixed, mostly emoeth; branches emple, suberest; 
the twigs dark green, finely white mottled; leaves eorigceoua, 
asgending, shallowly curved on the upper darker green auriace; 
peniele ascending, similer in coler; corells, stanens and pistil 
pure white, odorless; young fruit green, ellipseiti, sessile; 
"fegpo.* Romblon, March, 1910. 

