bark yellowish, smoothish; main branches rather short, 
finely rebranched, green, quadrangular; leaves pleasing 
green sbove, subglaucescent beneath, submembranous, horizon- 
tal, flat, flowers descending, calyx green, the other 
parts snew-white; Makallanes, April, 1915. 
12357, Gelonium meliocsrpum “lm. nn. ep. (flowers) 
Suberect shrub in well drained reddish soil of woods at 1750 
feet on the trail toward Sepana; stem 2 inch thick, 10 feet 
high, branched from the middle; wood light, white, odorless 
and tasteless, easily cutting; bark yellowish gray, minutely 
checked or lenticelled when old: branches divarieste, 
aparingly rebranched, quite rigid; Leaves horizontel, 
®lightly recurved, nearly flat, dark green above, much 
lighter so beneath; flowere axillary or upon short tubercles 
opposite the leaves, odorless, creamy yellow, deciduous; 
Magallanes, April, 1919. 
12358, ¥reyeinetia gitingana Mart. n, sp. Tree 
climber in dry forests at 1760 feet along the trail toward 
Repanai in shallew #oil with = shale subeoil: stem 1 inch 
stick, terete, ringed, every 1 inch toward the top, yellow. 
ish gray except for the blunt apinules, mostly brenched 
toward the top only; wood quite hard, porous; leaves crowded 
towdrd the top, aseending with recurved tipe, coriaceous, 
shining deep green above, glaucous beneath, deeply canicu- 
late on the upper aide toward the base, sides more or lese 
rolled upon the under aide, margins smooth except at the 
base: #etipule nearly 3 inches long and 1/2 inch wide, 
early becoming lacerated, ite margine emooth and with apex 
roundly truncate; usually purplish toward the top; peduncle 
erect, subterete, 3/4 inch thick, 3 to 5 inches long; 
secondary ones 3 inches long, triancular and thinner: heads 
usuelly 5, divergent, 5 inches long, 2 inches thick, rugose- 
ly terete: Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12359. Timoniue ebevatue “Lm. Sediras sized tree 
in Well dreined shale rocky soil of woods at *# 1750 feet 
slong the traii on the Bepana aide of the ridre: stem 10 
inches thick, 38 feet high, more or less wadde4 branched 
from the middle; wood heavy, hard, oforless, bitterish, 
dull white or dingy 90; berk yellowish, flaking in lcerce 
thin plates; branches diverieate, freely revrenched, cuite 
rigid: twige ascending; corisceous leaves ascending or 
horizontal, nearly flat, paler green beneath, nerves 
yellowish green; infruteecence arcendingly spreading, the 
branches yellowish green; mature fruits dark purplish 
ekeengxmaxure Sxukke taxrk purexkeix red, 1/3 to 1/4 inch 
long, arranged slong the lower side of the branchlets, 
juley, with 10 te 15 straw-eolored fiattish elengated 
Stone=like seeds; fruite obovoidly globose; Magallanes, 
April, 1910, 
12360, FPodocarpus latifolia Bim. Medium sized tree 
- in dry foreste at 1750 feet on the Bepana side of the trail 
in fettile humus covered soil; trunk 1 1/2 foot thick, 
terete, quite straight, 40 feet high or higher, branched 
toward the tep only: wood hard, bitter, odorless, yellowish 
or dingy white; berk smooth or sealing in thin rather emall 
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