12474, Brythropalum creandifolium “im. n. sp. Small 
tree climber in fertile humus covered soil of dense woods 
at 750 feet; stem 3/4 inch thick, very flexible, mostly 
branched toward the top, crooked and ocessional nodulose: 
wood soft, greenkeh, with a relatively large white pith, 
with a distinet fresh turnip odor, slightly sweet or taste- 
Less; bark yellowish brown, dotted with white Lenticels; 
branchlets slender, eparingly rebranched, the free ends 
drooping; leaves diverse in size but not in shape, submembrae 
nous, Shining deep rich ereen above, gisucescent benesth, 
horizontal or descending, nearly flat; inflorescence upon 
slender green axillary e*ubpendulous stalks, besring few 
fruits at the end: fruite ellipsoid, claucous red, fully 1/2 
inch long, upon eimilarly colored pedicels; Magallanes, 
LORY » 1910. 
12475, Randia williameii “Lm. n. ep. A Loeoping 
¢limbing shrub upon small trees in a rich densely forested 
flat st 7606 feet; etem terete, 3/4 inch thick, quite rigid 
yet bendable, occasionally branched; wood not hard, ereenish, 
odorlese and tasteless, that portion about the large whitieh 
pith yellew; bark dull brown, amooth; branches slender the 
sparse branchlets divericate, the twigs suberect and green, 
the free parte drooping; leaves submembranous horizontal, 
paler green beneath, fiat: infrutescence terminal, rather 
short and quite rigid, ereen especially the pointedly ellip-+ 
#014 nearly 1/2 inch long fruite; Magallanes, May, 1910, . 
12476, Placourtia magallanense Tlm,. n. 8p. Rather 
emall tree in moiet fertile soil of a densely forested flat 
at 750 feet; stem & inches thick, 3) feet hich, branched 
from below the middle; wood not hard, yellowish white, taste, 
lesa but with a sort of a greenish odor; bark yellowich eray, 
enooth or checked reddigh brown benesth the epidermis: 
branches numerously rebranched, forming denee crowns, lesves 
mostly horizontal, subchartaceous, folded upon the upper 
lucid green eurfece, much lighter green benesth, tins 
reeurved; fruite suberect from the leaf axils, hard, green, 
globose, "V/2 to 3/4 ineh in diameter, upon very short green 
stalks, Zecelled and apparently with 2 flattened erustaceous 
seedn ; Magallanee, May, 1910. 
12477. Jasminum cumingii err. Seandent upon shrube 
or sprawling over them, in fertile moist geil of woods sat 
760 feet; atem inclined to >, terete, rigid, branched 
especially toward the top; wood tough, ereenish white, with 
% Pelatively large green pith, odorless, slightly bitter; 
branches slender, green, interlesced, the free ends drooping; 
bark emooth, yellowish, that portion beneath the epidermis 
green; petioles green, strongly curved and usually twisted; 
blades leathery, ehining deep green sbove, recurved and 
usually folded on the upper eide, much paler or yellowish 
eveen beneath, margins subinvelute; infruteseence erect, 
green, axillary; the fruits flattish ellipsoid, 1/2 inch 
long, upon a thickened pale cqreen ond G-segmented aaly*, 
pale purple, leseeded, quite Juicy beneath the skin; 
Magallanes, May, 1910, 

