divers in size; inflorescence in axillary clusters, erect, 
all stelke blackish brown; the piatillate ones longer; 
female heads aclid, blaekish brown; male head soft, emailer, 
pink in eolor; fruits pendulous, upon 2 inche® yellowish 
prown stealks, only a few places fertile, the irregulerly 
shaped fruiting portion from 1/2 to 1 ineh across, Light 
yellow, @oft and edible when fully ripe; fruiting recept- 
agle yellowish brown; “SBeriwes." The skin meat and seed 
nesbrane are very soft and juicy and have a strong vinegar- 
like taste; the seeds are oboveidly slightly compressed, 
about 3/6 éf an inch long; Brooke Point, Pebruary, 1911. 
42610. Loranthus shewiene Fim. ne Op, Epiphytiec 
and pert parasitic upon the limber of 4rtocerpus number 
12669; stem elustered, arising from solid woody more 
or less finely checked and rugose tubers varying from 
& te 6 inches aerosa; brenehes freely rebrancheé e111 
along, flexible, forming dense meeses; leaves coriaceous, 
frem 1 to 6 inches lons, lucid, peler benesth, more or 
less curved upon the upper side; berk grayish brown, 
minutely lentiselled, green beneath the epidermis; wood 
rather hard, radiating lines rether conspleuous, bitter- 
ish; buds greenish white, the flowers divariestely spread- 
duce in enthesisg; calyx greenish; corolla bulged below 
the middle, dull fleshy red when miture, the 5 linear seg- 
ménts divariectely sprending, pistil creen especially the 
Stigma; anthers light yellow on the inner side purplish 
en the outeide, solidly eontinuons from the yellewish free 
filements whieh in the bud siate are green; fruits pur- 
plieh red, ellipseid emeeth; “Agoeago." Erooks Point, 
February, 1L9lls 
L861].  @ulo® pleurepteris Hadik,.. Shrub-like trees 
in dry fertile #011 of light woos at 25 feet altitude along 
the Lars river flat; stems erect, 3 to 5 inches thick, 16 
feet high, mumervousiy brenched ebeve the middle; wood mo- 
deryately sett, pure white, oderleas and teatelese; bark 
very Smooth, gray and brown blotened, reddish brown beneath 
the eplécrais; branches numerous, aseending, brown, finely 
pubeteent; leeves steending or horisental, the rachie with 
the expanded portion® green; lesflets descending, lucid 
deep sreen ehove, peler beneath, the main nerves beneath 
yellowieh, neerly flat; infruteseence sscending, the Stelks 
ereen end covered with scft brown heirs; fruits pendent, 
green, the 3 winged sides usually conesvoeconvex; stems 
wuelly few to Several ine cluster; “Bunsikag.” Brooks 
Point, February, 1911. 
12612.  Homalanthue populnens (Geitel.) Pax,  Stocky 
tree in fertile compact #011 of light woods @leng the Jere 
fiver flat at 25 fect; stem erect @ inches thick, 20 feet 
high, erooked; the main branches arising from below the 
middle, ateending, ultimately widely Spreading and numerously 
rebrenched; woot seft, dingy yellowish white, without oder 
and taste; bark brown end gray mottled, with grayish lenticelis 
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