
12565, Zenthophytum fruticulosum xeinw, A low 
suffrutescent undershrub of woods at 1750 feet, south of 
the ridge sumit along the trail to Hepana; 011 red mixed 
with stones in moist ravines; stom terete, 1/3 inch thick, 
greenish, soft, avereging 3 feet high, branched from below 
the middle; branches areen, lax, terete, widely spreading, 
Sparingly rebraneched; leaves sembranous, horizontal, fiat, 
lueid deep green above, very much paler green beneath; 
inflorescence upen short stelks, green except the white 
corolla, stamens and pistil, rare. Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12366. Ostodes serrato-crenata Merr. Rather small 
erect tree in well dyained clayey soil of a forested incline 
at 1756 feet on the trail toward Espana; stem 30 feet high, 
10 inches thick, Subterete; wood white or yellowish so, 
without odor or taste, quite soft, dry, fine to work; bark 
smooth, yellowish brown; branches above the middle, spreading, 
rebranched, the ultimate ones slender with suberect tips; 
. leaves ascending, chartaceous, nearly flat, much paler 
areon beneath, tips twistingly reourved, the dark green 
terete peticle thickened at both ends; inirutescence 
terminal, pendulous, the flexible stelik 2 feet long; fruits 
upon 1/2 inch long pedicels, “walnutegreen” triangulieriy 
subglobose, at least 1 inch across, subtended by the 5 
areen cogged calyx scanents, S-colled and S-seeded; 
Hagelilanes, April, 1910. 
 -'448367, Elaterioepernum paucinervie Kim. Medium 
sized tree in a steep forested revine of moist shale rocky 
soil at 1750 feet on the “epann side of the trail; Stem & 
feet through, 40 feet high, chiefly brenched toward the 
teps; wood odorless and tasteless, yellewish white on the 
outer hxka heolf, ea reddish white toward the center, 
moderately hard and easily for cutting; branches Spreading, 
erookedily rebranched, the twigs ususily green; petioles 
ascending, terete, green, thickened at both ends; leaves 
folded upon the upper side, coriaceous, deep green and 
sublueid above, much paler or even yellowish green beneath, 
mergins wavy, tips twisted and recurved; bark smoothish, 
globose or vather mottled; fruits subglobose, Solitary or 
fow elustered, terminal, upon stout short stalks, 1 1/2 
to 2 inches mmm across, @ to 3-eelled end with an equal 
number of flettened seeds, bard and deep green; Magallenes, 
April, 1910. 
12568. Bigonie gitingensis Vim, My Sp. Succulent 
herbs in very moist earth or upon moses covered rock crevices 
along densely wooded streamlets at 1750 feet on the Uspane 
Side of the ridge: vootetock red, sueculent, creeping, 
Sparingly branched, quite short; petioles dark red, terete, 
peduncle greenish except the reddish besa] helf, both 
subtended by fiery ved bracts; blades rigidly coriaceous, 
ascending, nearly flat or folded toward the base only, 
ahining deep areen above, mush lighter or yellowish green 
beneath: pedicels red; perianth shining red on the outer 
Side, whitish or pink on the inner; fruit pendulous, 
curtly S-winged; imgallanes, April, x8 1910. 

