toward the apex, much lighter green beneath, the apical bud 
yellowish dull brown; “Balao"; Yhis is the Species yielding 
the varnish like product collected for commerce; pockets 
or receptacles are cut into the side of the trunk and the 
sticky or mucileginows and tasteless juice 18 from time to 
ka time collected; Megeallanes, May, 1910+ 
12661. Gareinie binucac (Blco.) Choy. Small ®lender 
trees in red compact 80il covered with humus of forested 
ridges from 1000 to. 3000 feet; stem terete, 4 to 7 inches 
thick, 16 to 25 feet high; branches mainly toward the top, 
ample, divaricete, freely rebranched, the ultimate ones lax 
suberect and relatively short; wood soft, Sappy white, 
odorless, bitter; bark reddieh brown mixed with gray, Snoothish 
obscurely lenticelled or when old Sealing in thin plates, 
yellow beneath the epidermis, the inside lighter yellow and 
exuding freely a Similarly stieky juice; “Bagelot" - "“depinta". 
his fine species is so characteristic in its Slender tree- 
shape, in having well drained forested elevation, in 
having the abundance of latex,-- that mark it very distinctly 
from all other Garcinias in this region, and despite of not 
having found neither flowers nor fruits it ean be ree 
as a distinet Species; leeves mostly maxkauan horizontal or 
deseending coriaceous, derk green sbove, much lighter beneath, 
nearly flet. Magalianes, May, 1910. 
12562. Bvodia laze Mims. ne 6p, Lax undershrub in 
vod humus covered soil of forested ridges at 1250 feet; 
stem 3 to 6 feet high, 3/4 ineh thick, brenched from below 
the middle; branches divericate, widely spreading, with 
suberect tips; wood feetid, whitish, tasteless, Father 
hard or tough; bark dull brown, finely checked longitudinally 
when old; Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12665. ‘etralophiea philippinensis Elm, ms Sp. Tree 
climber in or on a forested ridge at 1250 feet, of clay 
compact and humus covered s0i1; stem 1 inch thick, flexible, 
terete, crooked, branched at the top or 60 feet from the 
ground; wood soft, porous, dirty white; bark aull brown, 
mottled and smooth on the branches, otherwise very finely 
eracked; branches crooked, the ultimate free ones Slender, 
drooping and preeny leaves coriaesous, aostly horizontal, 
folded upon the velvety deep green upper side, recurved 
eSpecially toward the apex, very much paler green beneath; 
infloresvence green except whitish corolla hairs, the 
flowers odorless and deciduous; "Tagekon,." Magallanes, 
May, 1910% 
12564, ®abernaemontana congestiflora Blms Ne Sp. 
Stem 8 inches, 24 feet high; main branches from the middle, 
divaricate, laxly and freely rebranched; wood soft, 
bitteraeh, early white; smocth bark grayish, with latex, — 
the branches lenticelied; leaves flat, dark green, chiefly — 
horizontel; Magallanes, May, 1910. \ 

