12197.  Freyeinetian diseoides Mart. nm, spe <A twining 
climber, about small tree trunks, in gravelly soil of the 
woods along the Sinubang ereek at 1000 feet; stem terete, 
at least 1 inch thick, conspicuously ringed every inch or 
les8, occasionally giving off slender, curved and helf drooping 
pranches; branches seercely rebranched, bearing numerous 
leaves; leaves descending, leathery, dull deep green above, 
1 inch wide, 2 fedt long, somewhat paler benesth, twisted 
towerd the apex, the margins curved upon the lower side; 
infruteseence suberect, terminal, upon short 1/2 inch thick 
end conspicuously ringed peduncles; secontary peduncles 
trianguler, yellowish green, 2 inches long; heeda 6, of the 
same goler, exeept the brown stigmas, terete, 2 to 4 inches 
long, fully 1 inoh thick, uenally outwardly curved; Magallanes, 
12198, Polystiotus stypus Lev. Upon the sides of 
half decsyed logs lying upon demp ground in dense woods at 
750 feet; ary and flexible, velveZty yellowish brown 
with a slight shade of purple, ssrgins more whitish; Magellanes, 
April, 1910s 
12199. ChaseRda curviflere Tha. Erect shrub in clay 
and well drained #011 of « densely forested ridge at 1000 
feet; stem nesrly 2 inches thick, terete, more or less 
erooked, 16 feet high, sparingly branched toward the top; 
whitieh wood quite rigid but not hard, odorless and tastelesa; 
bark yellowish gray, smoeth or becoming minutely checked; 
pranches crooked aseending, sparingly bet erookedly rebramphed; — 
twigs ereet, green; leaves coriaceous, sostly horizontal, 
apex recurved, otherwise flat, very derk green and shiny 
above, peler green beneath; inflorescence terminel, erect, 
rather rigid, oderless, pure white or the peduncle and main 
pedicels tinged with red; Yery showy and pretty ae an 
andershrub of the foreste? Magallanes, April, 1910, 
12200, Knema gitingensis BRilm, me sp. Slender erect 
ivee in well draineé clayey soil of the forests at 1000 feet; 
stem 6 inehes thick, 30 feet high, branched above the middle 
and forming en elongated crown; wood dingy white, moderately 
havd, odorless and testeless; bark smoothish or seeling in 
thin irreguler plates, dull brown or mottled, deep reddish 
brown beneath the epidermis, with a similerly colered juice; 
branches laxly rebrenched, the ultimate ones green and 
sonewhat drooping; ileeves descending, coriaceous, deep 
shining green on the upper nearly flat gurface, subclaucous 
beneath; pedicels and outer side of the 3 perianth segments 
pele yellow, the other portion of the flower deep red except the 
small enthers; “Anoling"; <ruit on a nenrby tree of the 
same species subglobege, et least 1/2 ineh thiek.  Magelilenes, 
April, 1910. 
L2201 Peheesir triandra Morr. Slender eres’ tree in 
etdeky red soil of a forested bench at 1000 feet; stem 3 
inches thiek, terete, 25 feet high, pragnched toward the top; 
wood moderately soft, the thin sapwood dirty white, otherwise 
yellow, odorless, bitterish; bark emoothish, yellowish gray; 
branches laxly rebranehed,. the sore or less erooked twigs euberect; 
leeves horigontally recurved, submembranous, dull deep green 
on the upper usuelliy folded surface, tips more or less twisted; 
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