12265, Fieus similis Herr, Erect tree in moist 
gravelly soil ef the wooded bans of the Pates river 
at 750 feet; stem 45 foef~nigh, 1 1/2 foot thiek, more 
or less branehea from fer below the middle; branches 
numerocugly rebrenched, divearieate, the ascending twigs 
relatively short; wood whitish, with plain consentric 
eings, quite herd and brittle, odorless and tasteless; 
leeves ehertaceous mainly horizontel, flat or nerrly so, 
ésep green beneath, much paler or yellowish green beneath, 
from ascending yellowish hrown petioles; Zig subereet, 
from the uppermost leaf axil, upon 1/8 ineh long green 
peduncles subglobose, green with whitish spots, 1/2 to 3/4 
inch seross; flowers reddish; bark chiefly brown, emocthish 
on lenticelled; Magallanes, “pril, 1910. 
A267, Ficus integrifolia Fim leregé tree in red 
moist soil with gravelly unierseil of wooded benches slong 
the Pates river at 760 feet; stem 2 1/2 feet thick, terete, 
50 feet high or higher, sore or less branched from fer helow 
the migdle; woed rather soft, eoneentrically ringed, odorless 
ang nearly tasteless; bark yellowish cray, smooth or lenéicelled; 
branches spreading, saply vebranched, the auberect twigs 
sonperitively short; petioles ascending, seurfy russet brown; 
deaves leathery or eubcherteceous, horizontal or descending, 
she llowiy folded upon the upper much deeper green surfeee, 
with strongly recurved tipe; figs upon few inches long, ligneous 
Sex and branehned tuberdles, seattered slong the trunk 
ehiefly; peduncles redéich, 1 inch long, S-bractente at the 
middle; fis short ebeveid, deep red, 1/8 ineh eeress, flowers 
yellowleh white; "Dolelog": Megeilenss, 4pril, 1910, 
12268, Cleistanthus isabellinus Elms. nse ap. A medium 
siged tree in gravelly demp soil of a wooded bank of the Patos 
river at 756 feet; the asin branches spreading, viltinately 
very moh lexly rebranched, the thin twigs horizontel or 
drooping; young portion of twige and petioles yellowish brown; 
lenves deceending, coriseeons, numerons, folded upon the upper 
shining deep sreen esurfaee, eleucons green or yellowish brown 
beneath, tipe alightly recurved: young fruits selitery or 1 
to 3 alustered, erect, moetiy along the brenchlets, short 
etipitate, smooth, turning reddish brown, 1/2 inch seross, 
&-leked ani S-celled, wubtended by the G-segmentéd yel Lowigsh 
BYeen Ghlyx, erect; stem 10 inches thiecs, brenchet from the 
middle, 25 feet high et leaat; bark dull brown, reddish so 
beneath the epidermis; wood «oderately herd end heavy, burly, 
odorless end tasteless, reddish brown except the very thin 
whitish sapwoodj Megnllenes, April, 1910, 
12269, endian umbelleta Flm 4 tree elimber end 
hanging from the limbs over the Patos river rat 750 feet: 
stem 1/2 inch thiek, terete, freely branched #11 along, wend- 
like; wood tough, mther soft, whitish, with a areenish pith, 
without odor or taste, laxly rebrenehed and forming loose inter- 
laced messes, twigs sreen; leaves very smooth, descending, folie 
upon the upper deep green surface, much paler green beneath; 
inflorescence ascending, seettered in @lustere along the upper 
pide of the branchlets, upon short brown tubereles; pedicels 
and celyx green; gorella creamy yellow, reflexed, etyle whitish, 
stigme yellowish green;.."“Basarg"; Magellenes, April, 1910. 
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