12244. Uleistanthus integer ¢. 8. Hob. slender 
subereet tree, in gravelly or stony soil of wet wooded banks ° 
of the Yulengan ereek at 1250 feet; stem 4 inches thiek, 
aubterete,with main branches arising from below the middle, 
20 feet high; berk yellowish gray, peeling in anali shredded 
plates; wood without odor or taste, reddish toward the middle, 
quite herd; britighee lexly rebrenched, the ultimate ones 
very fine; lesves descending, nearly flat, thinly coriaceous, 
much paler green henesth; flowers eseending, ereamy white, 
odorless; the subglebose fruits yellowish green, ®1s0 
aacending, S-eelled, bearing the persistent brownish black 
forked 3 stigmas; Megallenes, April, 1910. 
12245, Dichopetelum submerit&mum Film. ne Sp. Shrub 
in compact soil of shroberries in flats at 250 feet near 
‘mangroveeswampe"~+ etems & inches thiek, branched from below 
the middle, 7 feet high; branehes tongh, quite rigid, 
rebrenched and spreading; wood rather hard, sappy or dingy 
yellowish white, without oder or taste; bark brown, more 
or less werted, brown beneath the epiderais; leaves pale 
green, descending, eharteceous, recurved at the apex, shallowly 
folded on the upper shiny green surface; inflorescence erect, 
from the uppermost lesf axile, yellowish green except the 
ereamy white petele, stamens end pistil; "“Alibot-bot"; young 
lesves Light pele green; Magallanes, April, 1910. 
L2246, Veardenia merrillii Elms Shrub 6 to 9 feet 
high, in compact soil of shruberries near mengrove-awamps 
at B50 feet; twigs widely spreading, green; leaves coriaceous, 
greeefully recurved, horizontally apresding, usually several 
from the point of branches, very smooth on both sides, deep 
velvety green above, much peler or yellowish green benes th, 
the greenish white nerved give it a checked appearance; 
tips fecurved, somewhat folded on the upper side, varying 
from 6 to 16 inch in length; infloreseence terminal, in 
short @reon suberect trinds; Galyx pale green; eorodlla 
ascendingly spreading, in a divergent menner, pure anow-white, 
the tube 4 inches long, subinfleted at the apex, giving rise 
to 6 winimili-like spreading segments whieh heve ® smooth 
velvety feel, are more or less twisted and inequileteral, 
aveculent; pistil whitish, stamens incluied in the upper 
half of the hairy tube, “Begeoy”; young fruits ascending, 
ellipsoid, smooth; flowers sweetly fragrant and exceedingly 
pretty and showy s9 they gracefully sapresd over the foliege; 
MeghRlenes, April, 1910. 
12247. CGyelostemon merrittli Fins me spe Small 
erect tree, in red atony soil of light woods or thickets 
nesy a atreamlet at 750 fect; atem 4 inches thick,15 feet 
high, brenched from below the uidédle; wood heavy, ssppy 
white, without odor or teste, moderately soft; bark smcoth, 
grayish green, deep green beneath the epiderais; branches 
divavicate, rebranched, forming an elongated erown; ample 
leaves horigontal or woatly descending, chertaceous, dull 
green on the upper shallowly feldei surface, maueh paler 
benexth, upon thick gray, flexible petioles; young fruite 
1 to S-clustered, usuelly along the brenchlets, upon 1/2 
inch long green pedicels: overy ganescently hairy, otherwise 
greon, Z-eelled, each cell with severe] secds, bearing & sessile, 
pregulariy gravee etiguns brownish biaek in eclor; “folanmanok"; 
Navkilenes, April, 1910. 
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