12239.  Buxus rolfei Vid. Small shrub like tree in 
fertile soil of a damp wooded flat near a streamiet at 750 
feet; stem 2 to 3 inches thick, terete, 12 feet high; branches 
from the middle, spreading, rebranched, the twigs rigid and 
breaking with a snep; wood bitterish, odorless, yellowish, 
vather hard, heavy and brittle; bark thick, checked and 
peeling in plates, yellowish aray; leaves also brittle, 
yeourved especially at the apex, otherwise nearly flat, the 
marginal sides more or less folded upon the lower paler 
green side, chartacecus; inflorescence axillary or lateral, 
divaricately ascending, only an inch or two long, greenish 
yellow except the white filaments and yellow anthers, the 
terminal ones pistillete, the others staminate; perianth 
segments 4, stamens of the same number; ovary with the 4 
veflexed stigmas slightly pink or red; flowers rigid, 
odorless; fruit 1/2 inch long, ellipsoid, S-celled and 
Seseeded; "Analyxie.” Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12840.  YPhyllanthue ruficalus Mim, ts Sp. In crevices 
of Shale rock near the water's edge of the Julangan creek with 
densely wooded banka st 750 feet; roote flexible; stems 
Solitary or several from the same root, from a few inches to 
a few tak fort in height, erect but usually curved, torete, 
1/4 ineh thiek, unbranched; soft wood greenish brown, with 
a relatively lerge pith, covered with smooth nearly shiny 
brown bark; leaves ascending, the subterete rachis light 
green; leaflets aleo ascending, flat, membranous, subglaucous 
areon beneath; bracts brown, eubpersistent; flowers minute, 
along the underside of the rachis, yellowish green; fruits 
 flattigh globose, yellowish green, scarcely more than 1/8 
of an inch across. Hagallanes, April, 1910. 
‘L241.  Hippoorstes lawsonii Bl. Ms SP. A Woody 
Glimber and hanging from the limba of trees over the Dulangen 
creek at tis 750 feet; in rocky densely wooded benks; stems 
subterete, flexible, branched at irregular intervals; wood 
noft, doughy white; tough, odorless and tasteless, with a 
small brown piteh; bark dnii brown, cheoked into Small Squere 
or rectangular plates; branches subangular, nodolose at the 
base, or the basal portion of the twigs looped, hanging; 
leaves rigidly coriaceous, descending, tips recurved, nearly 
filet, dull deep green above, paler so beneath; infrutescence 
terminal, upon 1/2 inch long or less, green or brown stout 
peduncles; fruits 3, chovate in outline, herd, fiat green, 
2 inches leng, rosettly spreading, hard to distinguish from 
the leaves, l-celled, ultinetely splitting down the middle 
and the 2 cerpels fall off while the 4 winged seeds remain 
@till in tect.  Iegallenes, April, 1910. 
12242.  aArdisia boissieri DO, Slender erect trees in 
or on Seepage rocky banks along the densely wooded Dulangan 
oreek at 750 feet; stem 2 inches thick, 15 feet high, branched 
toward the top only; wood reddish white, with conspicuons 
radial lines, moderately soft, without odor or taste; berk 
smooth, yellowish brown; branches divaricate, 1 to 2 feet 
long, oly Sparingly rebranched, the twigs curved and more 
or less feseending; leaves horizontal, flat, coriaceous, 
much duller or deeper green above; infrutescence axillary, 
the 1 inch long, green, subpendulous stelk bearing a few 
fruits only, pedicels yellowish green, calyx with 6 reddish 
tinge; fruits flattish globose, deep cherry red, 1/2 ine 
wide; ‘*fagpo"; Magallanes, April, 1910. ' 
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