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1248, Hallotus korthalsii Muell. Arg, Srect shrub 
like tYee in red compact well drained soil of a forested 
ridge at 1000 feet; stem © inches thick, 15 feet high, 
branched above the middle; wood rather soft, yellowish 
white, withou® oder or taste; brenches spreading, rebranched 
leaves chartaceous, diveree in size, secending or horizontal, 
paler green teneath, usually folded upon the upper side and 
tips recurved, margine wavy; inflorescence erect, fer to 
severel inches long, simple or fer branched; stalk green, 
deciduous flowers yellow, berk omooth and yellowish gray: 
Vagallanes, April, 1910, 
12349, Sapium subrotundifolium Mim. n. fp. Yedium 
sized tree in moiet red rocky soil of dense woods slong 
the Patoo river at 750 feet: stem 10 inches thick, straicht, 
terete, 30 feet high, branched, toward the top only; wood 
moderately hard, dingy white, bitter, odoriese, nice to 
work; bark yellowish gray mottled, emoothich; branches 
freely rebranched, forming a dense erown; leaves horizontal 
mostly, coriacéous, folded upen the upper deeper green side, 
tips ebruptly reeurved, petioles thickened at both ende; 
young fruite upon short sparingly branched tubercles, 
smooth, green, hard, triangular, bearing 3 brown stigmas, 
Secelled and S«seeded; Wageallenes, April, 1910. 
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. 12350, Heterospatha sibuyanensis Beee. n. ep. 
Very ¢lender tree in red compact soil of woods at 750 feet 
on the trail te “spans; stem 4 inches thick, nearly 30 
feet high, terete, 2 inches thick at the tep; bark brown, 
smoothish or ringed toward the top; leaves aseendingly 
spresding; gracefully recurved, & feet long; petiole sbout 
one haif that length, 3 inches wide at the base, 1 inch 
across where the lesflets begin, triangular, ameeth and 
@reen not sheathing at the base, but the edtes provided 
with marcescent fringes; leaflets slightly ascending, 
flat, = trifle paler green beneath, reduced toward the 
apex; inflorescence or infrutese ence arieing from the upper 
leaf axils; peduncle 3 fest long, flattened, strongly 
recurved toward the base, where it mx is sheathed; panicle 
subpendulous, nearly 2 feet long, ovate in outline; fruits 
green, bright red when mature, 3/8 inch long, oveid: | 
“Bilie"; fibers of rind black, hard, coarse; pulp reddbsh 
brown; sheathe ensiferm 4 to 3 te each peduncle which 
carly becomes marcese ent; Uagallanes, April, 1210. 
12361, Syngremma slismaefolia 7. Sm. Terrestrial. 
clumps in moiet more or lees fertile soil of forests or 
in coal cute of woods at 750 fet: rhizome short, rigid, 
horizontal, few branched, fiving rise to numerous stipes 
and reots; stipes dull brown or nearly black, quite brittle, 
erect, terete, grooved along the upper side; somewhat crooked 
and twieted; frend ascending, Slightly reeurved, coriaceous 
dull green, a trifle paler so beneath; sides irregularly 
wavy, the fertile enes upon longer stipes, central, more 
erect, narrower and usually more folded upon the upper 
side; Bagallanes, April, 1910, 

