greenish or whitish toward the spatulate stigma; old fruits 
8 inches long, pendulous, curved end twisted, linear, 
subterete, pointed especially toward the apex; “Tangas." 
Megallanes, May, 1910+ 
12498. Todes curtiflore Elm. Me SP. A Scandent 
vein Sprawling over thickets of an open flat in moist fertile 
Soil at 750 fect; stem terete, less than 1/2 inch thick; 
flexible, branched all slong; wood very Soft, porous, greenish, 
oderlesa, distinctly sweet with a green pith; bark minutely 
lenticelled, yellowish on the old stems, green on the branches; 
leaves Soft membranous, nesrly flat, much darker green above; 
tendril apvendages arising from between the opposite Leaves 
and on the lower side of the branches, yellowish green; 
branches slender, the free ends drecping, divaricately 
rebranched: inflorescence suberect, areen except the creamy 
white stigmas; fruits pendulous, candy red, subterete, 1/2 
inch long, Subtruncate at both ends, Sweet; “Logtome;" 
Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12499, Homalanthus populneus (Geisel.) Pax. Tree-like 
shrub in red compact Soil of shruberries on low hilis at 750 
feet; stem ascending, 6 inches thick, terete, 20 feet high 
or less, branched, mainly toward the top; branchlets in 5's, 
jax, suberect, forming a flattiesh but widely Spreading crown; 
wood very soft, “poplar” white and light, odorless and 
testelesa:; bark brown, smooth or lenticelled on the branchlets; 
leaves copious, with horizontally Spreading reddish petioles, 
descending, submembranous, usually folded upon the upper deep 
velvety green surface, beneath glaucescently green; 
inflorescence ascending, usually curved, green except the 
odorless yellowish flowers; "Satangig.” Magallanes, May, 1910. 

