22299,  SBriogleseum rubiginosum Bla, Erect under- 
shrub in rich somewhat reddish soil of a forested flat at 750 
feet; stem 11/2 inch thick, 10 to 15 feet high, usually 
unbranched, ox 2 to «branched toward the top, crooked; 
wood moderately herd, pake white, without oder or taste; 
park thin, derk brown, smoothish; leaves at the top, 
divarieate, the twigs es well as petiole yellowish brown; 
leaflets flat, submembranous, horizontally spreading, dull 
green above, peler green beneath, upon yellowish peticlules; 
paniele terminal, strict, velvety yellowish or greenish 
brown, 1 foot long, all the branches suberect mmrk and 
unbranched; enlyx end pedieels yellowish brown pubescent: 
petels pure white, filements ereamy white, anthers creany 
yellow; “Aboy"; Magellenes, April, 1910. 
12300, aréisis boissieri h. Slenter tree in cleyey 
aoll of forests at 750 feet; stem 4 inches thick, 15 feet 
high or higher, ercoked, subterete; branches above the 
middle, divericete, rather shert, crocked, rebranched, the 
ends of the twigs subereet; wood moderately sott, reédish 
throughout, odorless and tactelese; bark smooth brown 
or more or less mottled; leaves mostly descending, 
shellcewly folded upon the upper shining deep green surface, 
tips reeurved, palex beneath; infloreseence axillary, upon 
requrved derk’ green peduncles, the pedicels and ealyx much 
lighter green; petels pink, rigid; enthers ashy gray and 
punetete on the back, pale yellow on the inner side; pistil 
watery white or green; fruit coal black, very much flattened, 
1/2 imeh acroes; “Teepe.” Magallanes, April, 1940. 
12301, “Gnetum lexifrutescens Elms Ne Sp. looping 
soandent climber upon medium sized trees extending over the 
Sinubeng ereck at 750 feet or higher; stem terete, rather 
ercoked and more or lees nodulose, 11/2 inch thick, numerously 
branched at the top only; wood soft ani flexible, porcue, 
greeniah white, without odor, bitter, with 3 to 5 large and 
coarse concentric rings; berk gray end brown mottled, more 
or lese roughened with blunt obseure lenticels; branches 
numerous, Givaricate, arceked, well interlace’, very flexible, 
conspionously nodulose, smooth end brown; leaves descending, 
shining deep green above, duller and lighter green beneath, 
folded above, margins wené-like, eorneeous; infrutescence 
pendulous from the lerger branches, 6 to 16 inches long, 
only speringly brenched, the nodulosely ringed and very flexible 
stalks dark green, the pe@icels end ellipseid fruits reddish 
shegolete bfown; fruite 1/2 t© 3/4 insh long; "Nonok". 
Magelienes, April, 1910. 
12308.  Strophenthus cumingii 10, A woody tree 
Glimber in humid forests of a fertile fat at 750 feet; 
stem terete, 1 inch thick, especially branched toward — 
the top, very flexible; wood soft, whitish exeept the 
large brow pith, odorless and neorly tasteless; berk 

