middle, numerously end lexly rebreanched; wood soft, white, 
odorless end tasteless, concentric rings Gonspienous; bark 
grayish white, smooth, green beneath the epidermis, other- 
wise whitish, sap whitish; lenver sscending, papyreaceous, 
flat, deeper green ebove, veins whitieh green bemath; in- 
flereseence sseénding, oderlese, grecnish exeept the creamy 
white stemens, ek at gg 4 the enthers.  "“Lampataki.” 
Brooks Point, February, 1911. | 
12698.  lencesyke ovelifolia G. B. Sob, Lax more 
or les@ reclining ehrube in compact 8011 among bamboo 
thickets interspersed with cogon grass et 25 feet altitude; 
stem 1 to @ inches thick, : crete, with the main branches 
arising from below the middle: wood sett, dingy white, 
oderlese end testeless, with © large pith eavity; bark 
brownish, smooth or minutely lenticelled, the inner portion 
reddish brown; leaves chiefly horizontal, rough and papy- 
receous, flat, tips recurved, greenieh white beneath, veins — 
Vs ines ereon yg fruiting heads alweys less than 
1/2 ineh thisk, upon Slightly reeurved green peduncles, 
suceulent and whitish when mature, the seeds brown; 
"“indepsea", Brooks Point, February, 1911+ 
12599. Schisostachylebellieri Gamb, Dense clumps 
in compact 8011 of the cogonSermation at 25 feet altitude; 
stemsaveraging 1 inch thick, 17 1/2 feet high, very numerous, 
the upper one half reourved; brenches clustered, ascendim, 
varying from 6 inches to 3 feet lena in the same bench 
of the most profuse ones; stem eheeth 7 inches long, clasp- 
ing the stem, trunextely rounded at the apex and extended 
inte a $ inches long point which is no more than 1/3 inch 
wide below the midéle and gradually runa inte 6 fine point, 
the epical mergin previded with 1/2 inch long brietle-like 
pene ig leaves pendent, Similarly rich green on both sides, 
tips twistingly recurved; inflorescence upen nearly leaf- 
lese Stems, upon Similar branches the lergest one of which 
are only Speringly rebranched, Similarly arranged; *spike- 
lets subterste, Sharply pointed; gslunes green except the 
purplish expoted merginel portions; stamens 6, verticiliate- 
ly pendent, yellowish green except the purple red streaks; 
monodelphoms filementsa united except the free tips; "“Sum- 
biling." Brooks Point, Merch, 1911. 
12603. Merremin umbelleta Hellier, (wining peren- 
niel#, ®prewling ever shrubberies in dry compact soil of 
flats at 25 feet altituie; sien 1/4 inch thisk, terete, 
green or when ola purplish brown; namerously brenched; 
petioles erect; blades heryizontel, recurved and folded 
upon the upper Side, a trifle paler green benetth, mem- 
branous; inflorescence slso ereet, the stalkss sreen; 
Calyx yellowish, turning purplish; corclla tube creamy 
white, the expanded portion pure white, Stemens ond pistil 
ereemy white or the ovary yellowish green, end the stigma 
more white; young fruite short ovoid, green, with white 
hairy seede; flowers odorless and beautifully in flower 
or bloé@m during the hot mid-daye, "Xslamit-mit." Brooks 
Point, Pebrusry, 1921. 

