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12291, Fieus indice Linn, , “lender shrub-like tree 
or subsesé@ent shrub upon anctheritree, in gfavellyfreddish 
goil of wooded benks of the Pauale river at 1000 feet: . eten 
3 to 5 inehes thick, 20 feet long, brenched toward the top, 
giving vise to cleaving roots where in contact with ites 
support; branches slender, freely rebranched, tough, tips 
aseendingly curved; wood, tough, duller white toward the 
center, odorless and tasteless, soft, with Tine soncentric 
vings; bark emooth, yellowish grey, tough, bright yellow 
penesth the epidermis, otherwise reddish; leaves mainly 
hno®igenteal, rigidly coriaceous, nearly fist, tips reeurved, 
paler green beneath; figs usually in peaire from the leaf 
exile, herd, shining yellow, the flowers dark brown "Hagopit"; 
Magallenes, 4“pril, 1910. 
12202, Timoniues arborea Em. “lender tree-lLike 
shrub in moist reddish gravelly soil of wooded banks along 
the Pavalea river et 1000 feet; eten 3 te 6 inches thick, 
80 feet high, branched from below the middle; branches more 
oy less spresding oné lexly rebrenched; ‘twigs brown, slender, 
usually @roeping, with upwardly eurved tips; wood hard, 
heavy, Gingy white or neerly Seasteless; bark smoothish, brown 
and gray mottled; leaves horizontal or descending, coriaceous, 
deep shining green ebove, much peler beneath, nearly flat; 
flowers solitary in the leat exils, upon ascending green 
stalka, the eelyx with the 2 subtending breets green; eorolia 
ereamy yellow, siriet, erect, 6esegmented; stamens of an 
equal number, sessile upon the maddlebf the tube; style whitish 
below the ai@dle, greenish especialiy towerd the stigma; 
ovules nucerogs, imbedded in o whitish pulp, longitudinally 
set; Sankoro™; Mervallanes, “pril, 1910. 
12293. Valophyllum eachokkei Elm. ne sp. Surly tree 
in moist stony soil of wooded benks along the Pausle river 
at 1000 feet; stem 1 foot thiek, 20 feet high, branched from 
below the middle; wood reéi@ish brown toward the center, hard, 
heavy, with twisted grains, oderless end nearly tasteless; 
old bark cheeked, greyish brown, rather thick, reddish brown 
beneath the epidermis; branches widely sepreeding, ultinetely 
numerously rebrenched, the relatively shert twige flexible 
ang hel? drooping, leaves asceniing or horigontel, rigidly 
coriaceous, shallowly folded upon the upper slide, much paler 
green beneath, recurved toward the apex; the midvein yellowish 
green benesth; fruite 4011 purplish blue,g morble round, 
1/2 ineh thiek; “Geygebe"; Meageilanes, April, 1910. 
12294.  Pleetronie didyue (Seertn.,) Elm, ‘4mell suberect 
tree in moist gravelly soil near a eliff along thePenele river 
at 1600 feet, in weeds; stem gnerly, & inches thick, 20 
feat high or higher, branched toward the top only; weod hard, 
dirty white or even brownish toward the center, odorless, 
slightly bitéer; berk grayish white, more or less checked ; 
longitudinally into anall flint plates; brenches spreeding, freely 
rebpenched, the creen twige usually turned upwardly et the 
end; lenves descending, thinly coriaceous, deeply folded upon 
the upper shining green surface, paler green beneath, tips 
 Feourved, inflorescence erect, sxillery, green except the 
aveenish or oreamy white corella dnd stamena; flowers with a 
strong sweet fragrance; Magallenes, April, 1910. 
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