12270. #Yreyoinetia merecerpa Merr, free climber 
in hoist fertile soil of huaid wooed along the Patesa river bank 
at 780 feet: etem climbing up to 20 feet, only sparingly 
pranche’, 1/£ inch thick, wiry; weed quite hard, whitish, 
porous, Giorless, eweet to taste; bark yellowish eray, smooth 
exdent for the rings and oeeasione] spindle; leaves reguierly 
scattered, thickly coriaceous, horizontal, elichtly reeurved, 
the greon base aceending, peler grean beneath; infrutescenae 
gubpendulous, wpon e short common ringed etalk, the peduneles of 
the 8 head senrecly longer, greenish, not ringed, heads short 
ellipsei4, nearly 2 inches leng, yellow but eventually turning 
red {?)..except the brown stigneas; Meghilanes, 4prii, 1910. 
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12271. Erie mindanaensis Ames ny, Sp. Small tufts, 
upon the uppex moss-+Coovereé inclined tree trunk extending across 
ey ever the Pates river e+ 760 feet, 20 feet from the water's 
edgo; whigone rigid, tough, short, freely rebranched; 
atems ascending, en@iform, quite flexible, pele green; leaves 
gacending or herisental, flet ox only shallowly foléeé upon 
the upper aide toward the bese especially, slightly darker 
eseen above; spikes 2, aceending, the terete rechis end reflexed 
beagte pele green; flowers divaricete, the lateral wings of the 
lower tip purple spotted, otherwise very pele cr “mallow" 
yellew: flowers odorless and soon withering; “Dapo"; Magallanes, 
Spril, 1920. 
12272, Garelnin divie Pierre, Medium sized erect tree 
in moist alluvial eoil eleng the Petes river bottem at 750 
fect in humi@ woode; stem 1 foot thick, terete, 35 feet high 
genohed above the midfile; eutside wood white, hard, heavy, 
odorless, very bitter; bark thick, lenticelled, grayish brown; 
stem upon eubserial reote or reot-buttresses; branches widely 
apresding, freely rebrunched, twige Gull green; leeves coriaceous, 
uoatly hotisontel, foléed upen the upper much deeper green 
surfneo; flowers aeattered in enell groups slong the branchle tea, 
the pedicels and calyx green; filementous phlienges 4, whitish, 
bearing nugerous very pele yellow enthers; etyle eleo whitish; 
atigua vieoid, yellow but turning reddish; flowers not odorous, 
but if the atieme eomes in cotteet with the nose the whole flower 
will adhere to it! Mageallenes, April, 1910. 
; 1227S.  Qnedrasia envhorbicides Mims fe Bs & BPs 
Shrub im moist red eley aized with reeks, in forested flats 
alone the Pates river st 750 feet; stem 2 to 3 inghes thiek, 
branched Z@roa below the middle, 9 feet high; branches witely 
spreeding, not numerously rebranched, the twigs suberect; 
wood yellowish or rather grecnish white, soft, oderlesa end 
tasteless, pith quite lerge; leaves horizontally opreeding, 
eoriaceous, dull green cbove, slightly paler beneath, upon 
dexgk green teyete petioles, filet or the tips reourved; hark 
aaceth, dull gray ond more or lese mottled; flowers sreenioh 
exeept the yellowish overy, upon short green stelke, pistilinate; 
fruits 4-craxses, subglobose, 4«celled, 1 seed in enoh; the dark 
brown or nearly black erustaceous seed surrounded by ea juicy 
orange red earumele; Magallanes, April, 1910. 

