12248, Ericeaulon merrillii Ruhl. Solitery mad 
plants forming qgolonies upon stream bede of rocks overlaid 
with fine mud or wet earth at 750 fect; roote soft, whitish; 
leaves in dense rosettes, sseendingly recurved, soft ond 
suceulent, whitish toward the base, otherwise pale green; 
inflerescent stelks, erect or astending, green, terete, 
strict, Very wnequal in length, several, at the base subtended 
by & green bract; heads chaffy brown, flattened; “Boybotanis," 
Megelienes, April, 1916, 
12249, Fievs repandifolia “1m. Small erect tree in 
moist gravelly soil of wooded banks slong the Agdemagan ereek 
at 750 feet; stem 6 inches thiek, 20 feet high, branehed shove 
the middle; wood soft, sappy white, with fine eoneentric rings, 
slightly eour, odorlesa; bark snooth, grayish white mottled; 
main brenches widely epreading, freely rebranched above the 
middle, Wigs aseending, relatively short; leavea withery, 
ascending, flat or only the tips recurved, deep velvety green 
above, much paler or yellowish so beneath; figs elustered 
upon short thiek ligneous tubercles, scattered along the 
main branches mostly; the green pedicels spreading, 3/4 
inch long; fruitg proper subglobose but with a more or less 
flattened apex and 4 constricted bese, 1/2 inch across, green 
with very minute oreamy white spots, quite hard; seeds brown, 
the flowers apparently pink or flesh refi; “Talobos.” 
Wegellanes, .pril, 1910. 
12250. Peyehotrien plumerigefolie Films, ne GP. Subereat 
shrub in reddish stony soll ef wooded banke along the Agdamagan 
creek at 760 feet; stem 2 to 6 inches thick, erooked, few 
branched below the middle, 10 feet high; brenehes only sparsely 
rebrenched, oroocked, the greenish twige subereet: wooed sappy 
white, rather seft, odorless, with a faint bitter teste; bark 
very smooth and very dull brown more or less mottled with 
greenish gray; leaves heavy, leathery, horizontal, flat with 
tips recurved, very deep green above, much paler green or 
even subglaucescent beneath; nfrutescent stalks deep green, 
the smooth subglobose fruits 1/3 inch ecross and sfiler in 
color; -Megellanes, April, 1910. 
12251. Dipterecarpus grandifolius Sleo, Lofty trees 
in rather good deep g0il of the wootis at 750 or more seattered 
along etreemlets; trunk 3 feet thiek, 60 feet hich, branched 
above the midéle; wood moderately hard, slightly foetid, 
tasteless, the sapwood dingy white, the heartwood deep brown; 
bark grayish white end settled, more or lees lenticelled and 
sealing in ameoth plates; wood (the outer portion) with a 
Glear tasteless sticky juice or sap; branches chiefly geward 
the top, relatively short and creookedly rebranched, twig portion 
green leaves upon green terete esucending petidhes; bledes 
thinly eorieceous or subchartacecua, folfied upon the upper 
bright lueid green surface, much paler beneath, descending; 
inflorescence upon green eperingly branched axillary etalke; 
salyx pale green,winged; eorolla imbrigately twisted, pale 
white exeept the pink middle portion; stemens duli yellow; 
"“Agorkag™,  Megellenes, April, 19106. 

