hard, dingy white, without odor or taste; bark thick, brittle, 
smoothish and conspicuously mottled or nearly white, the 
inner portion containing latex; leaves ample slong the 
ascending twigs charteceous, moetly descending, smooth and 
similar sublucid ereen on both sides, folded and with » 
recurved apex; young fruite seattered slong the branchlets 
or in the lower leaf axils, ascending, tomentosely grayish 
green, S-celled and S-ovuled; “Salong;" Magallanes, May, - 
191°. 
12412. Loranthas merrittii err. Spiphytie upon 
the larger limbs of lofty trees in woods toward the ¢ea-coast 
near Ilpil; atem creeping, freely vranched, less than 1/2 
ineh thick, quite rigid and hard, crooked, well interlaced 
and occasionally grown together; branches at right anglee, 
erect or ascending, orookedly branched, 1 to 2 feet Long, the 
ultimate ones flexible; weod tough, white or reddish toward 
the center, odorless and testeless; bark thick, brown, 
roughened with lenticelis; leaves aseending, coriaceous, 
folded upon the upper deeper green and more or lees shining 
surface; inflorescence terminal, odorless: pedicele and 
calyx green: corolla 3/4 inch long, tubuler, erimson except 
the dark green 8 to 6 semmented portion; anthers included 
sessile; style reddieh wan below the middle, green sbove, 
beoring a dull red exerted etiema; “Loloy-loy.” Magallanes, 
May, 1910. 
12415.  FPieus upendifolia tim. Small shrub like 
tree in moist soil of limestone densely wooded north hill 
sides near the coast towarde Ipil; wood heavy, sappy white, 
fibrous, with prominent concentric ringe, odorless and 
nearly tasteless; etem & inches thick, 15 feet high branched 
from the middle; bark emeothish, brown or mottled with gray 
on the branches, the inner portion with seant Istex; branches 
widely spreading, lax; leaves mainly descending, flat, 
leathery deep dull green above, much lirhter green beneath, 
upon greenish brown petioles; fice upon stout rery short 
tuberelee from the stem and main branches; penduloue pedicele 
green, voft in texture and very flexible; receptacle wh en 
Yipe soft, pale greenish white and shining, sbevoid, 3/4 
inch long; flowers brown, the sterile ones pink; "UVloy-catoy;” 
Wagallanes, May, 191%. te yl 
a 
12414, Gymnserathera negrosensis “lm, Medium sized 
tree in moist compact soil of Limestone rocks of dense woods 
of north hill@ides toward the coast near Ipil; stem 1 1/2 
foot thick, 35 feet high, branched toward the top; wood 
rather hard, whitish, its emall veseels containing reddish 
fluid, without odor or taste, bark smoothiesh or sealing in 
Plates, thick, with an sbundance of similarly colored juice; 
branches widely seattering, slenderly rebranched, the ulti- 
mateyxy ones green and with euberect tips, leaves horizontal 
or descending, folded upon the upper deeper green surface, 
tips recurved, glaucescently green beneath; flowers few 
upon short etout green stalks, creamy yellow, quite rigid; 
bud bracte brown; “Dugan;" Magallanes, May, 1910, 

