LZZ526 Dolicholobium philippinense Elm. fe 8p. Lax 
Shrub upon shale rocky #011 of a wet seapage bank akam along 
the wooded banks of the Agdamagan creek at 750 or higher 
feet; stem 1 or more from the same root, 2 inehes thick, 
ercokedly brenched from below the middle; branches laxly 
rebranched, the twige ascending; weed sappy white, soft, 
without oder or taste; bark yellowish gray, smooth or sealing 
in thin plates; leaves horizontal, submembranous, much lighter 
green beneath, upon yellowish green petioles, flat or only 
the tips reeurved, with very prominent mervea of a yellowish 
@reen color beneath; peduncles pedicels andi calyx paler 
green; corolla dirty yellowish white, ite tube 3/4 ineh long 
the 6 segments rotately epreading and stronaly twisted; 
fruitea ae well as the odorless flowers 6 to 5 inches long, 
Z-celled, terete, yellowish green, quite hard, Magallanes, 
12253, Meallotus echinatus Dlm. ne Sp. Breet tree in 
gravelly #011 of wooded banks of the agdamagan creek at 1000 
feet; stem 5 inches thiek, 20 feet high, branched above the 
middle; wood mederately hard, odorless and tasteless, brownish 
toward the center; berk amoothieh, blotched; limbs spreading, 
freely and laxly rebranched; pistillate flowers solitary, 
axillary or leaf opposed, with S slender divergent stigmatic 
etyles, upon a 5/4 inch longa purplish bracteate pedicel; 
ovary and stigmas similiar in color; staminate flowers in 
short spikes, all the stalks and calyx reddish; filaments 
light yellow, anthers deeper yellow, Magallanes, April, 1910, 
12254. A®Spleniun nidus Linn, Dense clumps encircling 
@mell tree trunks @c feet from the ground, in woods along 
the Agdamagan creek at lcoo feet; fronds ascending, risidly 
Goriaceous, reclining at the bese which is amply provided 
with a dense yellowish brown matrix of humus and moisture 
gathering rootlets; sides more or lees wavy and curved upon 
the upper side, Sinilerly pele areen on both sides, the 
midrib dull brown especially below the middle; the dry o1d 
leaves hanging end incidentelly protecting the spongelike 
roots from the sun's heat; "“Hayape” Megallanes, April, 1910. 
12256,  # Suonyous aletus lms Me OD, Small tree in 
moist aravelly soil of wooded banks along the Agdamagan 
creek at 1000 fect; stem aubterete, 6 inches thick, 26 
feet high, branched from below the middle; branches widely 
spreading, laxly rebranched, the slender twigs subdeflexed 
and green; wood moderately hard, eforless and tasteless, 
pele reddish brown toward the eenter, Somewhat burly; bark 
relatively thick smooth, yellowish gray, orange red or 
yellow benesth the epidermia, otherwise reddish; leaves 
descending, much lighter green beneath, flat with reeurved 
tips, leathery; fruits slona the branchlets, mostly solitary; 
the 1 inch lenge terete peduncle green and subpendulo us bearing 
a deeply S<lobed green fruit oboveidly in outline and 1 inch 
LONE rs a eS April, 1910. 

