12257.  ‘Freycinetia superba Mart. n. sp. A lofty 
tres climber in fereats of ridges or slong streams at 1000 
to £000 feat, in geod sell; stem solitary or few, loosely 
twining about the tree trunks, occerxsionaliy branched, 1 ineh 
thiek, terete, ringed every 3/4 inch or 86, beset with seattered 
eonieal spines; wood porous, quite rigid, sappy white, 
odorless, svect, covered with yellowish gray hark; brenches 
rather numerous toward the top or “% the top, forming more or 
less tangled masses; branehleta slender, curved, drooping, 
with suberect tips; leaves eopious, rigidly coriaceous, Gull 
green on the upper ceniculate surface, paler or subglancous 
green benesth, margins ené the under side midrib above the 
aiddle finely serrate, noi constricted toward the ascending 
base, the younger terminal leaves asgending bhe older ones 
drooping, & to 6 feet long, 1/2 to 3/4 inch wide; infrutescence 
erect, upon e few inches long terete 3/4 ineh thick ringed 
stalk; seeendary stalks yellowish green, 2 inches long; 
spikes 3/4 inch thick subterete, 3 te 6, ascending, @ightly 
outwardly curved, pale ox yellowish green except the brown 
stigmas; Magallanes, April, 1910. 
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12268. Polystietue elongetus (Berk,) Fr. On sides 
of a ary somewhat decayed log lying amongst the drift of the 
Agdemegen ereek at 1990 feet; forming dense patehes, dry 
end flexible, dull ehalky white benexth, above of the same 
eclored baakground but serked with e velvety brown; Magellanes, 
Aprih, 1910. 
12259,  Whitfor@icc’dendron Secentens Elm, Ne Sp. A 
woody climber or eprawler upon trees or over thickets along 
the Patos river at 600 feet; stem terete, 1 1/2 ineh thick, 
flexible, branched especialiy towerd the top; branches 
diveriente, tough, green; the brenchlets suberect and 
termimcted by the inflorescence; soft greeniah wood odorless 
end testeless, covered with eray more or less lenticelled 
bark; leaves coriaceous, “seending or deseeniing, folded 
uoon the upper darker green side, tips recurved; paniayie 
6 to 16 inches long, the branches ama breets yellowish’ — 
green, the eakyx reddish, the petals deep crimson red, the 
banner with © dull yellow central or midéle region, Tilements 
whitish, pistil dull yellow, anthers light yellow; flowers 
deciduous and odorless; soil red and compact; *"Cagay™ s 
fhe fruite are eaten by the natives; Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12260, Eugenia merivelensis Merrs Smell tree on 
wooded banks of the Patos river at 500 feet, in red soll 
with gravelly aubsoil; stem 8 inches thiek, 25 feet high or 
higher, few branched towerd the top only; wood hard, dull 
brown toward the center, odorless and testelese; bark 
smoothish mottled, on becoming very finely checked; branchlets 
numerous, relatively short, ascending, forming dense bushes 
towerd the ende of the main widely spresding brenches; leaves 
thinly coriseeous, deseenting, folded upon the upper side, 
twisted and reeurved at the apex, much paler or yellowish 
green beneath; inflorescence erect, the mein stalke brownish, 
the pedicels, calyx end even the petals greenish, filaments 
White, anthers yellowish brown; “Loi-lucbby". Magallanes, 
April, 1910. ; 

