12426 a. YFreycinetia ensifolia Merr, Only 1 fruite 
ing twig wee secured from another plant which may prove to 
be a 4ifferent species (with globose heade), Magellanee, 
May, 1910. 
12427. Maeoearpus verticellatus “lm. n. ep. 
Gmeall tree partly extending seroes the Peaualea river at 2000 
feet, in moist rocky #011; wood soft, whitish, odorless 
and tasteless, Light, bark gray, thinly cheeked; stem 8 
inches thick, @5 feet high; branches arising from the 
middle, @ivaricetely spreading, numerously rebrenched, the 
ultimate ones short and erect: leaves coriaceous, sscending, 
slightly reeurved, paler green beneath, shallowly folded 
upon the upper side: infrutescence beneath the terminal 
whorl of leaves, upon reddish etalke, the subpendulous 
fruits ellipsoid, bluieh green, at least 1/2 gach lone, 
"Karot*- fruit bright wash + blue when fully ripe; 
Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12428, Ternestroemia toquian (Bieo,) Vil, Slender 
erect trees in moist rocky #011 of a forested ridge at 
2600 feet of mount Guiting; stem 2 inches thick, 15 feet 
high, branched toward the top only: wood rather, hard, 
dingy or yellowish white, 9 trifle bitter, odorless; bark 
gray and dull brown mixed, minutely crooked, red beneath 
the epidermis; branches crooked ly rebranched, quite rigid, 
the ultimate ones guberect: Leaves in whorls, horisontel, 
@lichtly curved, otherwise fiat, rigid breaking with « 
enap, deep dull green above, much lighter benesth; flowers 
pendulously upen divaricate recurved green peduncles, odor- 
lees, rigid, eslyx greenish with yellow margins, petals 
ereamy yellow, atsmens or rather anthers brownish: 
"Batohan+noemahinti¢,® Magallanes, May, 1910. 
i 12429, . Gareinia garcine “lim, n. 8p. Brect shrub 
in moist humus covered soil of a forested ridge st 2500 
feet of mount Guiting; atem @ inches thick, 10 feet high, 
branched above the middle, rather crooked; wood yellowieh 
white, odorless, somewhat bitter, moderataly hard and tough; 
bark dull brown, minutely orseked, the inner layer light 
yellow and with seant similarly colored juice; branches 
divarieate, cuite numerously rebranched, crooked and rele. 
tively vigid; twige ascending, green, quite flexible: 
leaves sscending, eselily cracking or breaking with © snap, 
flat, paler green benesth; flowers in smell axillary clusters 
upon very short greenish stelke, small, rigid, easily 
falling, shining red; “Sacpo;" Magallanes, May, 1910, 
12439, Aréieie gitingensis Slim. nn. 8p. Burly tree 
on a wind ewept forested ridge at 26500 feet of mount Guiting; 
stem 1 footy thick, 30 feet high, with main branches from 
the middle; bark emoothish, yellowim gray; wood reddish, 
quite hard and brittle, bitter, odorless; branches widely 
spreading, crookedly rebranmed, the twigs more or lees 
crowded toward the branchlets; leaves mostly horizontal, 
coriaceous, sligmtly darker green on the upper shallowly 
folded surface; inflorescence erect or nesrly so, yellowish 
red except the pintcorells and deep purple. anthers with 
yellow apices, style whitish; young fruits flettened, finely 
spotted; "Grasos."” Magellanes, May, 1910. 
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