the 
quite rigid and few; wood moderately hard, only thin sapwood 
white, otherwise reddish brown, light, fine to work, odor~ 
Less and tasteless; bark dull grayich brown, when old sealing 
in small rather thick plates, light yellow benesth the epi« 
dermie, otherwise reddish brown: leaves rigid, descending, 
lueid much darker green on the wpper more or less folded 
side, alternatingly srranged slong the twigs; inflorese ence 
erect, heavy, succulent, limp, a1] the etalke ¢reenisah; 
white, flowers odorless, creamy white: "Psho."” warallanes, 
April, 1910. 
12335, ixera ebractesats Merr. Slender erect tree 
in moist red gravelly soil of woods along the Sinuben creek 
at 750 feet; stem 5 inches thick, 26 feat high, vranched 
above the middle; wood brownish white, odorlees and tagteless, 
hard, brittle, heavy: bark smoothish, dull brown to gray 
on the branches; branchlets suberect, comparatively short — 
and forming an elongated crown; Leaves ascending, curved 
upon the upper side, dull green, « trifle paler beneath; 
inflorescence erect, ite main peduncle green and eubterete, 
the pedicels and ¢alyx purplish brown; corolla 3/4 inch long, 
4-Lobed, white; short filemente and styles siso whitish, 
anthers a9 Well a8 the stigma yellow; fruit flobosely flate 
tened, dark wine red when mature, usually with 2 deeds: 
Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12336, Myrmecodia ailfuyanensis “Lm. n. oD. Sreect 
usually unbranched undershrub in wet gravelly earth of wooded 
banks along the Sinuban creek at 500 feet; stem 1/2 inch 
thick or less, occasionally few branched at the top, varying 
from 1 to & feet high, sux ueuslly crooked and nodulose on 
the branches or toward the top; bark greenish brown, tough 
and easily stripping; wood greenish white, with a large red 
pith, easily breaking leaves horizontal, flat, coriaceous, 
much paler green beneath; inflorescence terménal, erect, 
the pedicels and calyx reddich brown; corolls «hite with a 
tinge of red; filamente white bearing light yellow anthers; 
fruits globose, less than 1/2 inch thisk, green but with 
brownish streaks round dowm from the apex; Kagallanee, 
12337,  Horsfieldia ardisiaefolia (DC,) Yarb. Wedium 
Sized tree in a moist alluvial #oil of light woods slong the 
Sinuban creek at about 500 feet; stem 1 foot thiek, 20 feet 
high or higker, brenched above the middle; wood rather soft, 
white, without odor or taste; bark grey, thinly checked — 
longitudinally, the vortion benesth the epidermia reddish 
brown; branches divarieate, slender, sparingly rebreanched, 
the ultimate ones green end longitudinally Serigid; leaves 
horizontal or slightly recurved, more or lees folded upon 
the sh upper shining green surface, wach paler beneath, the 
nidvein yellowish green, subchartaeceous; inflorescence 
axillary aseending, 211 the stalke ereen, the buds deep 
dull olive green; flowers subpendulous, slightly fragrant, 
lemon yellow, flattish, epening into 2 parts: anthers in 
% flattened elongated column atteched to the center; 
“egallanes, April, 1910. 

