12352, Sideroxylon gitingensis Blm. n. sp. Very 
slender tree in shale rocky soil of eteep wooded inclines 
nesr the ridge summit on the trail to Hspana atem & inches 
thick 30 feet high, branched mainly at the top; wood 
moderately hard, odorless and tasteless, dingy white; bark 
smooth, mottled, with latex; main branches rather short, 
numerouely rebranched, the suberect twigs flexible; leaves 
ascending, mostly flat, shining green above, prler beneath, 
subchartaceous, the veins yellowieh; pedicels and calyx 
yellowieh brown pubescent; corollse and stamens ereany white; 
pistil green: Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12353. Rugenia cumingiana Vid, Slender tree in 
red soi] of the forested ridre at 2000 feet on the trail 
to Hepana: atem 7 inches thick, subterete, 25 feet high, 
with few main branches toward the top; wood heavy, burly, 
dark brown except the thin whitish sapwood, without odor 
or taste; bark smoothish, yellowish gray; main branches 
numerously rebranched, the ultimate ones erect and YelLativee 
ly short, forming dense masses: leaves subcoriaceous, 
ascendingly recurved, nearly flat, paler mmx green beneaths 
inflorescence creamy white, ebeolutely odorless, erect, 
lax the ovary yellowish and the main stelke ereenish ; 
dagallanes, April, 1919. 
12364, Cyathea obliqua Copel. n. ep. .Yery slender 
tree-ferns in red sticky soil of woods on the Bspena side 
of the 2000 feet high ridge; stem © inches thick, 15 feet 
high, more or lese curved, at the base irreguharly thickened 
with root growthea (7); scars ovately ellipsoid, 1 inch 
high; fronds nearly horizontally spresding, comparatively 
few; stipes flattened and 3/4 inch wide at the epineseent 
suberect bages which are usually cavered with axe dry 
yellowiah grey ecales, otherwise subterete, nearly 1/2 
inch thick juat below the leaves, about 2 feet long, dark 
or blackish brown; pinnee similarly epresding, rather 
seattering, the largest ones in the middle ragion, rachis 
greenish brown; pinnules subchartaceous, shiny deep green 
above, paler md duller beneath; e¢ireuler sori rich choco-« 
late brown; Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12355, Peyehotria sibuyanensis “lm. n. 8p. A 
scandent vine climbing emall trees in humid forests on the 
south side of the ridge along the trail to “epana, nearly 
at 2000 feet elevation; stem terete, the size of an ordinary 
lead pencil, flexible, greenish gray bark; wood ereenish | 
eek with a large pith, seft, odorless and tagstelees; branches 
steen, very flexible, minutely whitish spotted, hal fhrooping 
ad interlaced, quite slender; Leaves horizontal, coriaceous 
but easily breaking, shining and very deep green sbove, 
much paler beneath, flat but reeurved especially mx so 
toward the apex; infrutescence erect, terminal, dark green; 
‘agallanes, April, 1910, 
12356. Hedyotie parva Kerr. A very fine erect 
indershrub of moist clayey soil of the woods slong the 
tidge at 2000 feet on the trail to Bepana: stem 1/2 inch 
thiek, 5 feet high, sparingly branched at the top: wood 
tigid, sappy whité, odorless and somewhat eweet to taste; 
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