12478, Strombosia philippineneis (Bail.) Rolfe. 
fedium sized tree in 2 denrely forested fiat of moist fertile 
soil at 75u feet: stem 1 foot thick, terete, branched abtve 
the middle, 30 feet high; branches ultimately numerously 
branched, forming dense me crownes, the twice quite rigid and 
prittle, wood hard, whitish (at least in the main branches) 
without taste or oder; bark amoothish, grayish white; leaves 
ample, strongly folded and recurved, descending, subchartaceous 
nearly similar @reen on both sides but the upper one more 
shining, inflorescence in small ascending axillary groups, 
ealyx yellowish green, the pedicel @reen and brown bracteate, 
petals creamy white, caducous, each of the 5 segments bearing 
at the throat 4 small anther; ovary light yellow: etyle and 
stigma of the same color as the petale; fruite heard, dark 
green, @Llipsoid, less than 1/2 ineh long, upon similarly 
colored pedicela, l*seeded; Magallanes, lay, 1910, 
12479. Agelaea everettii “err. A woody tree climber 
in forests at 750 feet of 2 moist fertile flat; stem looping, — 
fully 1 ineh thick, terete, occasionally branched but mostly 
toward the top, flexible; wood soft, porous, sweetiah, odor- 
lese, with a thin uhkrkkx whitish sapwood, the central portion 
red: emeoth bark dull brown, relativad y thick, dark red except 
the epidermis; branches very tough, half droeping and inter. 
Laced: Leaves descending, limp, or thinly corisceous flat, 
onler green beneath; infrutescence upon short, brown pubes¢ ent 
stalks, towerd the end of branches or from the uppermost Leaf 
axile, flattiah ellipsoid, 1 inch long, excluding the stout 
divaricate apex, velvety bright red, seemp sharply rurose; 
and the fruits are eaten by the nativee or “Vieayen;” 
Megallanea, Say, 1919, 
12480, Ostodes serrato-crensata Herr, Small tree in 
moiet fertile humus covered soil of a densely forested flat 
at 760 feet; stem 6 inches thick, 20 feet high, widely brenched 
toward the top; wood moderately soft, odorless and tasteless, 
the outside white otherwise dingy white; bark smooth grayish 
brown; twigs ascending, not numerous; leaves upon green ascend- 
ing petioles with thickened ends; bladés nearly fiat, deep 
ereen above, much paler benesth; inflorese ence upon terminal 
pendulous stalke, equal to an arm's length, the more vigorous 
ones occasionally short branched at or near the base; flowers 
deciduous, in xm alternating clusters, maturing st different 
times; calyx yellowish with green median tips; corolla creamy 
white; petals glands yellow a2 are also the anthers, the 
etamineal tube pale white; fagellanes, Yay, 1910. 
12481. Pleatronia viridis err. Slender ereet tree in 
fertile soil of a forested flat at 750 feat; stem terete, 6 
inches thick, 30 feet high, branched toward the top only; wood 
moderately soft, dingy white or yellowish brown toward the 
center, odorless and tasteless; bark minutely checked, blotched 
with gray and brown; main branches divaricate, quite slender, 
repestelly brenched, the green lax twics mostly horizontally 
spreading sand with tipe only suberect; leaves similarly spread} 
ing, submembranous, deeper green on the upper slightly condue 
Plicate aurface, tips recurved and margins wavy: the freen 
pedicels suberect, calyx similarly dark green, corolla light 
@reen, anthers yellowish gray, hairs whitish, pistil also 
freen especially the ovary. Magellanes, May, 1910, 
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