LE2BS. Gmetum vinosum Bline Ne BD. Smell slender 
erect tree in moist forestea flong streamlets of gravelly 
soil at 1000 feet; wood rather hard, yellowish white, 
without odor or taste; bark mottled, emeothish; branches 
chiefly towerd the tep, divericeate, erising fron thiekened 
portions of the stem, crookediy end numerously rebranched, 
the place ef branching always nodulese, the ender young 
twigs horizeontelly epreading or drooping, and green; leaves 
¢oxriaceous, horiszontel or descending, ehellowly eonduplicate 
on the upper shining deep green eurtace, much paler beneath; 
inficreseence aseending, green, with the different sized of the 
young fruite elonesete ellipseid; "Bago." The fruits and 
leaves are eaten by the natives;—e— mature fruits at least 
1 inch long, emooth and purplish red, very pretty! Magallenes, 
12264, Dichapetalum monespermwu: Merr. Erect tree in 
red ¢ley of dense woods at 1990 feet near the Pates river; 
stem 8 inehes thiek, 35 feet high, subterete, branched above 
the middle; weed sett of 2 greenish odor, tasteless, dull 
yellow ezeept the thin whitish sapwood; bark relatively 
thiek, turning te a @ull hlvish green when exposed, emoothish, 
more or less mottled; branches lexly rebranghed, sreyish 
white; leaves thinly ecoriacsous or subchartacéous, soctly 
deseending, flat, shining ebove, duller green snd paler 
beneath; flowers elustere’ in the leaf exiles or in the 
axils of their sears, deciduous, pole yellow even the short 
sitlks; "Bagoceolon;" Mesallanes, April, 1910. 
12286, fYagreea nonok Hlus Me Ope Suberect or 
nove or legs strangling upon en o14 “snag” along the Pauale 
river at 600 feet, in rich turf soil; seteme several, few 
to eeverel inehes thick, perfectly terete, branched from 
near the base; branches ample, the ultimete ones slender, 
eurved, helf drooping, with saeendingly eurved tips, rather 
erookodly rebranched, the leafy portion green; wood soft 
greenish white, 2 trifle bitter, greenish in oder; »verk 
mostly brown, very emooth, blotehed with eray, green beneath 
the epidermis, ensily stripping; leaves chiefly ascending, 
rigi@ly cerisceous, folded upon the upper very @eep green surface, 
tips more or leas twisted end abruptly recurved, much paler 
gredn beneath, diverse in @isze; infrntescence heavy as are also 
the leaves and twigs, ereat, ascending, 3 to & clustered, the 
thigk stelks @erk green, the calyx yellowish 60; fruits 
elongate ellipseid, neerly 3 inches long, and 1 inch across 
above the middle, more tapering from the bese, apex ebruptly 
eongtricted into a ereen point lead eeler er light olive green; 
shiming end rather pretty; “Nonok,.” Megellanes, April, 1910. 
 teees,  Guton enlieifoliea Redik.s ne spe Breet shrub 
in sand gravelly moist 2011 along the Panalea river benks 
fnenget thickets at 750 fect of less in elevation; stem 
few to eeveral inches thiok, 10 te &0 feet high, branched 
from the middle or belew it; branehes numerousily and lexly 
vebyvenched, the twigs suberect; wood dry, white, light, . 
Without oder er taste; bark suooth, duli greyish mottled; 
leaves ascending, cheartaceous, only the tipa more or less 
recurved, yellowish or subglaucescent green beneath; inflorescence 
exillary, ascending, panieulato, #11 the stalks and even the cel yx 
areen, the other parte of the distinctively fragrant flowers 
white exeept the pink anthers; very Gommon #long streams 
and giver in the low lends amonget thickets and in light woods; 
‘“falemanok": Hagellenes, April, 1910. 
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