ascending or horizontal, rigidly coriaceous, much paler 
green beneath; inflorescence terminal, erect, odorless: the 
pedicels and eslyx green, the other parte of the flowers 
ereamy white and minutely sprinkled with red: fruite 1 ineh 
leng, terete, nearly straignt, yellowieh pointed, velvety 
deep red: “Catunganung:" Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12331. Guettardia epecioess Linn. Shrubelike tree 
in thickete bordering mesdows and nips swamps near the 
coast: stems few, several inches thick, 15 feet high, branched 
from below the middle; oranchee few branched, secending, 
rather slender, terete: wood whitish, bitteriah, odorless, 
heavy; bark brown, with minute grayish white lLenticels, green 
beneath the epidermis, easily peeling, lesven sscending or 
horizontal, flat, submenbranoue, deep @hining green sbove, 
paler beneath, veins much lighter creen; inflorescence erect, 
upon terete pale green stalks, the ealyx yellowieh so, 
eorella tube 1 inch long, yellowish white, #8 is also the 
style; petals pure white on the inner side; sessile anthers 
light yellow, stigma deep green; “Tam bon lembon,” fruit 
+ eaty 1 inch aeross, green, hard; Magallanes, April, 
12342, Artoecarpus paloensi¢s 1. Tree in moist 
fertile soil of woode at £50 feet elevation: trunk 2 feet 
thick, 35 feet high, branched from below the middle: wood 
soft, coarse, sappy white, slightly ewestsy sweet, odorless; 
bark brown, obscurely lenticelled, otherwise emooth, brown- 
ish red beneath the epidermis, with latex; main branches 
divaricate, the twige green ond suberect, branchlets quite 
slender; lesvee chartaceous, mostly deseending, more er less 
folded upon the upper side, shining sbove, paler beneath, | 
tips strongly recurved; infloreecence erect, in pairs from 
the leaf axils, upon terete 2 to 3 inches long dark green 
stalks: head light yellow, obovoid, 1/2 to 3/4 ineh long, 
sey and more or leas spongy; "“Cube;" Uageallanes, April, 
ivic, | 
12333. iyxopyrum philippinensis Bim. n. sp. 
Seandent by twining about thickets in light woods near the 
sen~coaet; stem terete, 3/4 inch thick, flexible, scessional~« 
ly branched but especially eg0 toward the top; wooed soft, 
odorless, sweetich, sappy white, with 2 relatively Large 
white pith: bark yellowish, shredded; branchlets quite 
rigid and forming an interlaced masa, angular, dark green, 
the ultimate ones slender ond half drooping; leaves »%1s0 
drooping, deep lucid green above, much paler beneath, uesual~ 
ly folded upon the upper side and with recurved tips, sub- 
chartaceous; panicle lateral, 2 few inches to a foot in 
length; stalke velvety purplish brown, calyx with the short 
pedicels @reen, corolla yellowish so; fruite less than 1/2 
inch long, ovoid, l-geeded: Magallanes, April, 1919. 
12334, Buchanania reticulate Glm. n. sp. Rather 
large tree in fertile humus covered soil of humid forested 
flats along the Pauala river at 750 feet: stem 21/2 feet 
through, 45 feet high, terete end straight; oranches mainly 
at the top, erooked, comparatively short, the ultimate ones 
. 
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