12557. Ficus tinectorlia Foret. Subprostrate shrub 
or sprawling amongst thickets, in turf soil near the coast; 
stem Several inches thick, Sclitery or few, branched from 
near the base, terete, 10 to 15 feet high or long; main 
branches widely Spreading, rather long, the ultimate suberect 
ones relatively short and quite rigid; wood dinay white, 
odorless, distinetly sweet, quite tough; bark very ®trong 
and stripping very Smooth, conspicuously whitish; leaves 
ascending, rigidly cheartaccous, nearly flat, Somewhat recurved, 
Shiny green above, paler or yellowish green beneath; figs 
when mature light yellow, slobose, 1/2 inch thick, soft, 
nen yellowish 1/3 inch long erect stalk; Magallanes, ley, 
19106 
18557 as Fieus peeudopalma Pleo, Very scomnon from 
the Seseoaet up inte the hilis. Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12558.  Peidiumf avayevea L. Shrubs in sandy soil of 
turf land near the Sen-const; stem from 1 to Several inches 
thick, Solitary or few to Several from the Same cluster of 
roots, 5 to 9 feet high, branched from near the base; wood 
quite hard, white, odorless and tasteless; bark very Smooth, 
yellewish brown to aray; branches widely Spreading, rebranched 
all along; leaves chartaceous, descending, dull green, paler 
860 beneath, utually folded upon the upper Side; Ramm, 
flowers creamy white, upon Strict aseending green pedicels, 
the yellowish areen calyx persistent; fruits elongated 
Rlobose, the lerger ones nearly 3 inches across; rind hard, 
areen, becoming yellowish when fully mature; Seeds nunerovt, 
imbetided in light red sore or less juicy and edible meat. 
Megellenes, Mey, 1910. 
LES559~ fieus paloensie Elm Small erect tree in 
dry muane® covered Soil of a wooded ridge at 750 feet or 
higher; stem 7 inehes thiek, 20 feet high; branches mainly 
at the top forming a flettish crown, widely Spreading; 
the ultimate ones suberect; wood whitish, oderless, Slightly 
Sweet, vory soft; berk smooth, grayish white mottled, 
brenches brownish, fvll of latex; leaves horizontal, 
Shellowly folded and slightly recurved, deeper green above, 
submembrancus; figs uesvelly in pairs from the leaf mackmx 
axils, or in the exile of their scars, 3/4 inch long, ovoidly 
@liipseid, yellow; efter heavy rains the mature ones split 
open from apex toward baee in few to several rather reguler 
divided ones; “falébeg;" Magallanes, Mey, 1910+ 
12560. Dipterocearpus grandiflorus Bico. Lofty tree 
in red dry cofttpact 6011 on a forested ridge eat 1000 feet; 
stem subterete, 2 fect thick, 76 feet high, branches chiefly 
at the top, relatively short, rigidly rebranched, the leaf 
bearing twigs suberect; wood with a fresh woody odor, tatte- 
less, moderately hard, the outer 1/8 whitish and exuding a 
transparent viscid juice, the inner 2/3 very derk brown; 
bark comparatively thin, finely mottled with gray and brown, 
smoothish or when old ecaling in thin irreguler plates, pale 
brown beneath the epidermis, the inner pale whitish Surface 
bitterish sweet; leaves chartaceous, ascending or horizontal, 
usually folded upon the upper side and recurved especially 
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