12336. Artabotrye cumingianus sube¢labra Elm. n. var. 
A sprawling climber over thickets in an alluvial moist bottom 
land slong the Ginuban creek at about 500 feet; stem touch, 
terete, 1/2 inch thick, smooth, brownish except the green 
branchlets; wood whitish, sweet, odorless, with a dull pith; 
Leaves coriaceous, dull deep green above, much peler green 
beneath, very shallowly folded upon the upper side, tips 
recurved; inflorescence along the twigs below the foliare, 
usually l-flowered from « stout green, much flattened recurved 
or hooked peduncle: pedicel green, pendulous, the ealyx 
also green as are the young petals which however turn creamy 
yellow in anthesis: the inner whork of petele similar in 
color and in texture; flowers eweetly fragrant; Heagallanes, 
12339. dllex cymosa blim. “thrube-like tree in light 
woods of half ewampy flisate near the Sinuban creek at about 
250 feet; stem 6 inches thiek, 20 feet high, branched from . 
below the middle: wood very soft, sappy white, bitter, odor- 
less: bark yellowish, roughened with darker colored lenticels, 
branches subdivaricate, laxly rebranched; grayish white; 
leaves Ruxkaxwemyy coriaceous, ascending or horizentel, 
apex sbruptly reeurved, flat or folded upon the upper much 
deeper and shining green surface; young infrutesecence 
terminal, green, the fruits globose with brown stigmas; 
Magallanes, April, 191°. 
12340. Lumnitgzera littorea (Jack.) Yoigt. surly 
tree in nipa mangrove swamps at the mouth of the Sinuban 
creek near the sea-coast: stem 3 feet thick at the base, 
branched from near x it,about 30 feet high: branches widely 
apreading, numerously rebranched; wood hard, brittle, 
heavy, bitteriesh, odorlees, reddish toward the center: bark 
thick, coarsely cheeked longitudinally: twige lex, flexible, 
suberect: leaves coriaceous, thick, heavy, flat, similorly 
dull green on both sides, infloreenence erect, calyx as 
well as the stalks green, the other parts crimson red except 
en yellow enthers and greenish stigmas; Megallanes, April, 
1910, 
12541.  Cratexylon formosum (Jaek.) Dyer. ‘mallee 
ehrub-like tree in hot send gravelly seil along the Pauala 
river at 750 feet; stem 6 inches thick, 20 feet high, with 
main branches arising from below the middle: wood moderately 
hard, dingy white, bitterish, odorless: bark gray, checked 
when old, smooth on the branches, reddish brown beneath 
the epidermie; main branched ascending, numerously rebranched 
toward the top: twige lax; petioles reddish; Leaves membra- 
nous, horizontal or descending, usually curved upon the upper 
Pleasing green side, glauceseently green benesth; infrutes- 
cence erect, 1 to Seclustered from the axile of the fallen 
leaves, upon very short sbalks; pedicels 3/4 inch long, 
glaucous green or oecasionelly reddish; mr calyx similer, 
fruits terete, 3/4 ineh long, reddish streaked or spotted, 
bearing 3 brownish stigmas. Magallanes, April, 1910> 

