12456, Pandanus dubius Spreng. 4 heavy and clumsy 
appearing tree in seil of a wooded lime Stone ridge terninating 
at the sea and within reach of the saline influence; stem 25 
fect high, nearly the lower one half occupied by few but 
vory thick proproots, 10 inches thick, the upper portion 
divided into widely spreading branches; the ultimate ones of 
which are ascending, and 3 inches thick; wood soft pulpy and 
stringy; bark yellowish, obsevrely ringed, with conical 
excrescences; leaves heavy, the besal 2/3 erect, the apical 
portion twisted and pendulous; deeply grooved on the 
Side toward the base, heavy and succulent, Serrately Spiny 
along the edges, 6 te 8 inches wide, 6 to 5 feet long, o1d 
nearly decayed or at least partly so fruits 4 to 5 inches 
jong; amk Staminate inflorescence erect, terminal, 2 feet 
long, subtended by creamy yellow bracts; “Pandan-auang"; 
leaves similerly deep green on both sides, 3 to 5 or even 
8 feet long; Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12459. <Antidesme cumingii Muell. Arg. Shrubs 10 
feot high in compact soil of Shruberries or in light woods 
at 750 feet; Magallanes, lay, 1910. 
12460. Morinda philippinensis “lm, a. 8p. A Glimbing 
shrub upon thickets bordering the send gravelly banks of the 
Pauala river at 750 feet; stem 3/4 inch thick, terete, bendable, 
namerously branched toward the top; weed soft, porous, odorless, 
with a distinet sweet taste, sappy white mixed with yellow, 
with a large brown pith; bark dull brow, minutely checked 
and with obscure exerescences, that on the branchlets smooth 
and mottled; leaves coriaceous, mostiy horizontal, folded upon 
the upper darker green surface, recurved and wually twisted 
toward the apex; heads upon erect terminal green peduncles, 
@alyx and corolla pale areen, anthers yellow, heirs white; 
flowers Slightly freerant; “Gamahiwan." Magallanes, May, 19106 
12462.  ugenia mimiea Merr. Shrubs quite plentiful 
in hot ary Sand-gravelly soil of the Pauala river flat from 
"50 fect to 1000 fect elevation; stems few to several from 
the ground, aseending, 5 to 9 foet high, prenched from near 
the base, terete, 1 to 3 inches thiek; wood hard and tough, 
whitish, without odor or teste; bark Light gray or whitish, 
more or lees checked when o1¢ and thereby exposing the 
inner brownish epidermis; branches freely rebranched; leaves 
aseending, rigidly coriaceous, nearly flat, much paler or 
yellowish green beneath; inflorescence suberect or drooping, 
Slightly but sweetly fragrant, Stalke greenish, calyx 
yollowish with red margins, ovary yellow, the other parts 
of the flower creamy white; *lumboy.”  Magellenes, May, 1910. 
12462. Hydnephytum formicerium Jack. Bpiphytic and 
insectivorous upon limbs of small trees along the Pauale 
Sand-gravelly flat at 750 feet; bulb 1 foot across, smooth, 
grayish brown, obscurely "wadded" or rugose, hone y-combed 
and inhabited by amell black ants, not bard; stems terete, 
seversi to numerous, less than 1/2 ineh thick, very flexible, 
1 to 3 feet long, only sparingly branched; wood very soit, 
aveenish white, odorless and tasteless; bark thick, very — 
Smooth, grayish brown; leaves ascending, coriaceous, flat, 
peler green beneath; flowers watery white except the calyx; 
fruits axkumme salmon red, elongate ellipsoid, 1/3 inch in 
length; "“lumboy-lumboy.” Megellanes, May, 1910. 
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