Stigme white, anthers grayish brown or nearly black; flowers 
rather rigid, early felling, sweetly fragrant; young fruits 
dull yellowish green, erect, tubuler, thickened at the apex; 
tanpling." Brooks Point, February, 1911. 
12591. Rauwolfia palawenensis Bim. Os 8p. Small 
rather slender trees, in somewhat swampy black 8011 of woods 
at 15 feet altitude; stem 7 inches thick, 25 feet thick, 
main branches from the middle, suberect, rebraneched and 
forming a flattish top; wood dingy yellowish white, moderately 
hard, odorless, very bitter; bark coarsely lenticelled, 
yellowish and gray blotched, the inner portion yellow, greenish 
beneath the epidermis; branchlets aseendingly curved, 
yellowish, with viseid milky Bap; leaves eoriaceous, shiny 
and bright green above, much paler beneath, fiat or only 
the tips Slightly recurved; inflorescence erect, the main 
stalke greenish, the pedicels and flowers white; Style and 
ovary whitish, Stigma greenish, fruits Shining more or less 
irregularly globose, 1/2 inch seross, ususlly with e Single 
flattened stone-like seed; "Bubuta.* Brooks Points, 
February, 191i 
12598  ‘Titeea perrotettii (Blm.) Vile Mediua Sized 
tree in woods at #25 feet altitude, of black very wet or 
nearly Swempy Soil; stem 2 feet across, 55 feet high at 
least; branches chiefly at the top and forming a flattened 
erown; wood soft, odorless and tasteless, the greater central 
portion yellowish; berk mottled, smooth and more or less 
Lentieelled, the outer portion beneath the epidermis reddish 
brown; twigs Slightly escending, deep green; leeves mostly 
horizontal, shining deep green on the upper usually folded 
surface, much paler beneath, veins yellowish beneath; 
inflorescence suberect, yellowish green a8 16 4180 the calyx, 
filaments white, anthers yellow; flowers erect, odorless, 
deciduous; “Merabay." Brooks Points, February, 1911. 
12593. Pandanus decipiens Mart, Ns Sp. Erect trees 
20 to 30 feet high in groups of swampy black seil of woods 
at 26 feet altitude; stem 5 to 8 inches thick, terete, with 
3 to 5 feet leng prop roots e few inches thick; main branches 
from above the middle, crooked and rebranched, forming an 
wabrella like erown; leaves crowded, 5 to 7 feet long, 4 to 
6 inches wide, paler green beneath, gerretely Spiny along 
the margins and sparsely so along the median line beneath, 
deeply channeled from the middle toward the bese, the sides 
pendant toward the blunt apex, risid and expanded at tho 
base, the upper one third pendulous, the central terminel 
ones erect; infrutescence terminally arising and hanging 
below the foliage upon a hard green triangular Stalk which 
gradually thickens toward the Syncarpia; fruits Single or 
© to 4 in a cluster, elonaate globose, the terminal one in 
a cluster always larger, 6 to 9 inches thick, yellowish 
green but turning orange red when fully ripe; the individual 
drupes of the lateral heads are a® a rule mach thicker or 
Less pointed, stigmatic portions dry corky, brownish black; 
bark Smooth, yellowish gray, smooth except the very blant 
conical spines; wood coarsely fibrous; "Olangos” Brooks 
Point, March, 1911. 

