AZ806.6 ¥vodie Jaxer Wim, nm. 8p. Low shrub in bonus 
cevered well drained soil of a forested ridge at 1500 feet 
of mount Guiting ; Stem 1 ineh thick, branched from 
near the base; 2 to 3 feet high; branches crooked, laxiy 
rebranched, the twigs suberect; wood soft, tasteless, 
Slightly foetid, whitish, with a yellowish brown eenter; 
park emooth, yellowish grey; leaves shartaceous, horizontal, 
flat exeept the recurved tips, deep dull areen above, only 
a trifle peler beneath; infleoreseence axiliary, the stalks 
areen, the celyx alao green but usually tinged with red; 
eorolia and filaments whitish, anthers light yellow, ovary 
aveen; fruits suberect, 5 to S=parted, dark green; “Alihot- 
bot." Megellenee, April, i91¢. 
12307.  Sid@erexylen fragrans Wim. mall erect tree 
on e forested ridge at 1600 feet of mount Guiting; stem 
1 foot thiek, terete, 85 feet high, branched toward the top; 
wood odorless and tasteless, rether hard, beavy and brittle, 
the Sapwood whitish, the esveater central portion brown; bark 
smooth, brown or mottled, with latex; branches widely 
apreading, vebranched, the twige suberect and roughened 
with eld leaf sears; leaves crowded, asceniing, subcoriaceous, 
usually felded upon the upper much darker green Surface, veins 
yellowish white beneath; fruite in pairs from the leaf axils, 
or in the axile of faileu leaves, upon yellowish brewn 1 ineh 
long pedicels, 3/4 inch long, ellipsoid, green, bright red 
and dark purple red when mature, with e selitary (7) flattened 
stong-lLike seed. "“topok,* Magallanes, April, 1910. 
LESOEs S$eiaphilea maculata Miers. an erect unbranched 
saprophyte in huaue covered soil of a forested ridge at 1500 
feet of mount Guiting; etem Slender, crooked, erising from 
fibrous roots, pele purplish white, with 3 bracts, unbranched; 
flowers divericate, at the top of the Stem, the lower two 
deep purple red and pistiliete, the upper 6 staminate and 
peler purple; perianth 4 to G-Segmented; anthers 2, sessile, 
fliettened, appearentiy opening by an apiesl Slit; Stigme 
large, flettish exkxeé ovoid, papiliate.  Magellanes, April, 
1910. 
12309.  Geleonium melicocearpua Hlm. rect shrub, in 
Well drained humus covered svil of a Zorested ridge at 
1500 feet of mount Guiting; etem 6 feet high, 1 inch thick, 
branched frem below the middle; branches crooked, quite 
tigid, rebranched and widely spreading; wood yellowish 
white, tough, oferless and tasteless; bark smooth, duli 
grey; leaves horisonte1, nearly flat, Slightly recurved, 
corinceous, very deep green above, much iignter green 
beneath, punctete; flowers 1 to S-clustered, yellowish green 
or gxeenish white, leaf-opposed, deciduous; “"Meleuma,* 
Megeallanes, April, 1910, 

