ABZI5« Rapanes philippinensis DC. Small suberect 
tree in moist soil with a stony underlayer of wooded banks 
along the Paunla river at 1000 feet; stem 6 inches thick, 
18 feet bigh, branched at the top; bark smoothish, more or 
jess mottled; wood hard, heavy, reddish brown, with coarse 
fibers, edorless, bitterish; branches numerously rebrenched, 
the twigs euberect; leaves aecending, nearly flat, very 
much peler beneeth, corineeous; flewers upon short bracteate 
axillary stelke, ®eesile, fiecidueus; Megellanes, April, 1910. 
12296.  Ternstroemia megzacarpe Merr. Erect tree in 
@layey #01] of a densely forested flat at 750 feet; stem 1 
foot thick, terete, So feet hieh or higher, branched at the 
top only; wood reddish or dark brown toward the hollow center, 
sapwood whitish, moderately seft, odorless and tasteless; 
bark whitish, @mooth or Lenticelled, reddish beneath the 
epidermis; branches eoerse, rebranched, Spreading and forming 
a flat crown or nee@riy 80; tvias euberect; leaves coriaceous, 
chiefly horisental, nearly flet, with tips somewhat recurved, 
very dark green above, paler beneath, midvein yellowish green 
beneath; fruite solitary, axillary or along the branchleta, 
hanging, wpon 1/2 inch long stout pedicels, 2 inches long at 
least, oboveidly ellipsoid, yellowish red with white mealy 
mest, 4—eeded; the flattened stone-like seeds with a felt- 
like deep cardinel ved integument, end hanging from the apex 
of the stalked receptacle, "Baletio," Magallenes, April, 1910. 
LER97 « Worefieldia werburgianae Klmse Ne Sp. Slender 
tree, in fertile reddish soi] of a densely forested flat at 
750 feet; stem 1 foot thiek, at least 30 feet high, terete; 
branches mek mostly et the top, divaricately spreading, the 
branchlets chiefly horizontal; wood dirty white on the 
euteide, brownish toward the center, moderately solid, 
oderless and tasteless; bark relatively thick, gray and 
brown mottled, shallowly checked, reddish brown beneath the 
epidermis and with @ Similarly colored juice; leaves ascending 
from the dull mx yellow petioles, more or less recurved, 
coriaceous, Lighter green beneath; fruite upon few to several 
inehes long ereen branched stalks, seattered along the branches, 
ellipseid, 1 ineh long, pale yellow; the shell contains a 
stinking ofl; the nut is smocth (7?) and surrounded by an 
orange red integument; “Lagase." Magellanes, April, 1910. 
12298. Gareinis duleia (Roxb.) King. ‘Strict rather 
Small slender trees in fertile soil of a ferested flat at 750 
feet; stem 8 inches thick, 30 feet high, terete, branched 
mainly at the top; branches divericate, rigid, repeatedly 
branched; the twigs dark areen, more or less angled and also 
horizontally spreading; erown flattish; leaves likewise 
spreading, diverse in @ize, rigidly chartaceous, flat, very 
dark green above, much lighter green beneath; wood moderately 
herd and bitter, odorless, very bitter, yellowish; bark dull 
brown or mottled toward the top, roughened with numerous 
lenticels yellowish beneath the epidermis, the inner side 
light yellow, with a viseid yellow juice; inflorescence 
clustered upon short green tubercles seattered along the 
branchlets; pedicel end ealyx green; the rigid petals and 
6 filamentous forks pale greenish or greenish white; anthers 
brown; the dwarfed ovary or Steminal glands pele yellow, 
more or less lacerated; "“Begalot;" Magallanes, April, 1910. 
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