12211.  Dichépetalum monospermum Merr, Smell erect 
tree in fertile soil of « wooded flat near grassy openings 
et 750 feet; stem 4 inches thick, 15 feet high, more or 
Lesage branched from below the middle; wood mocerately soft, 
without odor or taste, yellowish white; berk smooth, grayish 
white, mottled, peeuliarly bluish green benes th the epidermis, 
yather thick; branches numerous, divariestely spreading, 
lexly rebranched; leaves descending, coriececus, flat or 
shallowly folded on the upper side, pale green beneath, apex 
veourved and more or less twisted, flowers yellowish, axillery, 
the potals end anthers with the filaments white, the otary 
yellowish green; “Meeahaboy"; ‘Magallenes, April, L910» 
12212. Piper merivelesenna C, BD. Seandent and 
twining about auall tree trunks in fertile flate of woods 
at 750 feet: etem aubterete, 1/2 ineh thick, very flexibie, 
glenéerly branched; branches lax, green, half adreoping, 
neduloge, easily breaking; leaves descending, very deep 
greon ebove, gleusescent beneath, descending, the margins 
usually curved upon the under side, corisceous; fruiting 
spike 1 to 2 inches long, usually eurved, deep green a8 ore 
also the pedicela; fruits shining vermillion red, ovoddly 
ohaererete 1/3 ineh long; “Buyoe-helo"; Megellanes, april, 
Oe 
12213, Garcinia gitingensis Bim. Small erect tree 
on moist gravelly and wooded banks slong the Peuale river 
at 750 feet; stem 3 inches thick, 15 feet high, branched 
above the middle; branches lexly rebranched, the twige rather 
short and suberect; wood bitterish, odorless, spppy white, 
quite seft; bark brownish or mottled, smooth; leaves moe tly 
horizontal, nearly similer pelef sreen on the upper and 
lower sides, folded and twisted, or rathor recurved; 
pedicels and buds pale green; peteale yellowish, retlexed; 
filaments flettened, 4, benring @fmerous minute brownis 
anthers (?); style filaments and especial lythe we 
vieeid. stigue yellowish; Magallanes, April, L910. ot 
12214. #Parinarivm philippinense Elm. Me sp. ‘Smali 
tree in reddish soll with e gravelly subsoil of a wooded 
bank along the Peunle- river at 750 feet; stem 10 inches 
thick, 30 féet high, with the main branshee erising from 
below the midéle; wood odorless, hard, tasteless, duller 
white in the center; berk grayish white, amoothish ox 
checked end sesling in pletes, reddish beneath the epidernia; 
the ultimate branches rather short, the branchlets ercokedly 
rebrenched; leaves horizontel or descending, chertaceous, 
folded on the upper slightly greener side, tips recurved; 
infrutescence of 1 te 3 terminal spikes 4 te 6 inches 
long, besring red fruite; Mageallenes, April, 1910, 
Ww 
18815. Vernonia seandens BC,  Serndent by tining 
stems and branches woon smell trees in sand gravel eoil 
near the Pauala river bank at 750 feet; stem terete, flexible, 
1/2 ineh thick branghed #11 along, with greenish seft wood, 
without oder or taste; berk 4ull brown, more or less lenticellad; 
branches arookedly febranched, the ascending twigu relatively 
short, forming tengled dense masses; leaver saeending, thiekly 

