12279. Gercinia lugeniensis Merr, ‘Slender tree on wet 
stony wooded banks of the Patos river at 750 feet or higher; 
stem 10 inches thiek, $0 feet bigh, branched from the middle; 
wood moderately hard, whitish, odorless, distinetly bitter; 
bark relatively thick, yellowish brown mottled with gray, 
smoothish or sealing in seal] plates, contains & Small amount 
of viseid yellow juice; branches widely Spreading, nunerously 
and jaxly rebvanched, the twigs ascendingly curved; leaves 
mostly horizontel, recurved especially toward the apex, thinly 
sorisceous, shallowly felded upon the upper much deeper green 
surface; young infrutescance terminal or axillary, ascending, 
solitary or $ in a cluster, upon 1/2 inch long or less 
terete, green, stalke, Subglobose, 1/2 inch in diameter, 
bearing the sessile cireular brown stigma, 2-eelled, but frequently — 
only one ovule developes, sticky, Magallanes, April, 1910. 
LEZB0« Geniostoma Taxa Ulm. Ny SPs Lax shrub in moist 
gravelly soil along the fates river at 1000 feet, on wooded 
banks; Stem several inches thick, branched from near the base, 
18 feet high; gain branches suberect, aumerously and lexly 
yebranched, the wltimate ones very Slender, usually recurved, 
and with suberect tips; wood eeft, dull seppy white, cderless, 
Blightly sweet, wet; leaves thinly coriaceous, sinllarly 
green on both sides, recurved, fiat or shallowly folded upon 
the upper side; flowers clustered mostly in the fealien leaf . 
axila of the branchlets, upon aveending dark green pediceis, 
galyx of the same color, the other perts, excepting the 
anthers, pale yellowish green; without odor; the smooth 
bark gray end brown mixed. iegellenes, April, 1910. 
12281.  <sstronie viridifolie Him. me 8p. ‘Siender erect 
tree in veddish soil of a moist wooded bank along the Patos 
river at 1000 feet; stem 5 inehes thick, 15 feet high, with 
main branches arising from below the middle; wood dingy 
yellowish white, rather seft, oderless and without taste; 
bark thin, yellowish, flexing in thin seales; main brengches 
ascending, numerously rebranched; the ultimate ones relatively 
short, subhorizentel, repestedly branched from the lower 
side, with ascending leafy tips; petioles reddish; blades 
gracefully recurved, mostly descending, ¢oriaceous, flat or 
only shallowly folded upon the velvety dark green upper side, 
much paler or even yellowish green beneath; inflorescence 
erect, dull ved except the orange red anthers; *Goyeanigag." 
Mekka wegallanes, April, 1910. 
12282. teucosyke magullanensi® Elm. n. Sp. Shrub in 
red soil underlaid with gravel end vowlders along the wooded 
uxt banks of the Patow river at loco feet; stem Bx 6 inches 
thick, 15 feet high et least, branched from below the middie; 
wood moderately hard and heevy, reddish except the white 
sapwood, without odor or taste; bark smooth, mottled; branchlets 
many, Slender, usually drooping but tips erect; leaves horizontal 
chartaceous, # trifle reeurved, upper Side deep green, beneath 
whitish; inflorescence staminate, upon Short decp green stelks 
odorless, the anthers creamy white, the other perts greenish 
or yellowish with reddish margins and tips. Magallanes, 

