12383. Parinarium mindansenge Perk, Brect medium 
sized tree in moiet more or less gravelly soil along light 
woods or in thickets bordering stresamlets at 750 feet; bark 
mottled, emoothish or minutely lenticelled, the inner portion 
reddish brown; wood odorless and tasteless, the thin sap. 
wood w&m dull white, otherwise reddish; branches above the 
middle, repeatedly rebranched and forming » dense elongated 
erown; stemf 1 foot thick, 30 feet high, leaves descending, 
chartaceous, similarly green on both sides, folded upon the 
upper side snd more or less reeurved; fruits upon 1/2 to 
2 inches# long stout peduncles, subterete, ellipsoid or 
ovoidly so, hard, heavy, pendulous, nearly 4 inches lone, 
covered with russet brown excreseences; rind nearly 1/2 inch 
thiek, ligneous: seed solitary, ite meat creamy white and 
convoluted (as in nutmegs) ovoid elongated, meaty, 2 inches 
long, 1 1/2 wide; “Tabong;" Magallanes, April, 1910. 
123684, Carruthereia VeCrerori Merr, A subseandent 
shrub sprewling over thickets and small trees in fertile 
goil of en incline slong a stream at 780 feet; stem terete, 
3/4 ineh thick, very flexible, more or lees branched 911 
along; wood whitish with « brownish pith, porous, odorless 
and tasteless, bark relatively thick, yellowieh to browvn, 
smooth or minutely lenticelled, whitish beneath the epider. 
mis, with an abundence of latex; brenehlets green, slender, 
half drooping; leaves upon aecending petioles, herizontal 
or descending, folded upon the uprer much deeper creen sur- 
face, coriaceous; infloreseence suberect, all the etalke 
including the ealyx green; corolla tube creamy yellow, 
nearly 1/2 inch long, elightly bulged below the middle or 
some above the base; segments pure white, twisted and rotate- 
ly spreading to the right 6 in number; "Botai"; flowers 
sweetly fragrant. Magallanes, May., 1910, 
12365. Stereulis etipularie R. Br, Small erect 
tree in moist soil of woods or thickets near stream] ets 
at 750 feet; stem 6 inches thick, 20 feet high, ehiefly 
brenched toward the top; bark mottled, emoothian or minutely 
checked; wood very eoft and pulpy, odorlese and tagteless, 
white on the outer half, dingy so toward the center; branche 
lete rebranched, spreading; Leavee crowded at the ends of 
the twige, thinly chartaceous, diverse in gize, herizontal 
or nearly #0, folded upon the upper side, apex recurved, 
Similarly pale green on both sides: inflorescence arising 
from the lower side of the twig, subterminal, upon several 
inches long peduncle: panicle 6 to 10 inches long, 211 the 
stalks reddieh brown and very flexible; flowers yellowish 
and denetely covered with reddish hairs, pendulows, slightly 
wtexke odorous; "Finilie"; fruite 3, divaricate, yellow tingdd 
with red, oblongish, nearly 3 inches long; Vageallanes, May, 
XxeEKX 1910, 
12386, Wicus indies Linn, Apparently 9 young 
strangling ekimktee climber upon a medium sized tree aloe 
Wooded bankas of the ereek, at 750 feet in 
gtavelly moiet soil; stem 3 inches thick or thicker, 30 
feet high, cecasionally branched, terete, 2 few timer 
turning about its support; bark smooth, yellowieh gray 

