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LE616. Disghapetalum monospermum Merr.,  Slenier 
erect shrub-Like trees in damp fertile humus covered S011 
of dente woods et 16 feet altitude; etem & to S inches 
thick ov 8 fmek thicker, terete, crocked, 15 feet high; 
branches erookedly brarphed, the ultinanie ones lax and 
horisontelly @preading, chiefiy erising frea ebove the 
middle; sapwood thin, whitish, the gentral portion yellow- 
igh, odorless end tasteless, aoderately hard; bark sucoth, 
brown end grey or greeniah eray mottled, thin; leaves motte 
ly horizentsl, flat or enly the tips reaurved, deep and 
sublueid green above, paler and duller beneath, chartaccou®; fruits 
Solitary or oecationally few clustered from the leaf axils, 
obovoidly ellipseid, pale yellow, upen @hort greenish pedi- 
eels, more or less rugoSe or wringkled, S@irsighter along the 
ventral edge, with o Solitary Stene-like Seed, the meat 
beneath the skin orenze rei; “Buteaebuta." “Sroeoke Point, 
Yebruary, 1911. 
LE6L7 « fareiniea benthani Piers. Stout erect tree 
indam fertile #e011 of weode at 25 feet aliitude; stem 
11/2 foot thick, 35 feet high, wadded at the base; wood 
hard, redcisn brewn or blackigh towerd the center, the thin 
Sapwood whitith, Slightly bitter, odorless; bark freely 
bleeding with a white visaid sap, dark brewn and sealing 
in Small irreguler plates, reddish brown teneath the epider 
mis; branches above the middle, divariecte, ultimately nu- 
mercuSly rebranghed; twict @ark sreen Subferete, rele tively 
Short, Grooked, Bubereet; leaves mostly herisental, paler 
areen beneath, tips reeurved, let or Somewh: | curved upon 
the upper sides flowers jerge, termineliy clustered, with 
@ faint pleseant ocer, the 4 lewer end Smlier perianth 
segments creamy yellow, the inner und larger ones creany 
white; stamens naserou@ly clustered upon 4 whitish very 
thiex and rigid pRlanges; stiama bread ereamy yellow, 
viseid; "“Bungg." Broeks Point, February, 19211. 
ayes. Sahigestachyum palawanense Gamb. Lofty 
tree olinber and sprawling over the ground vegetstion, 
in very moint fortile Soil of dense forestia «t £5 feet alti-~ 
tude; @temi nvmorous, looping, varying from 1/2 te 1 
inch in thiexkness, jointe averaging 1 foot apart, nume- 
rously branched eBpecially teward the topk the lower 
branches stem like and numerously rebranched teward their 
ends; twige green, Slenier, wiry, the thin ultimate enes 
beseming senbrous, spresding in ei Girestions and pretti- 
iy festeoning all ether Yegetetion; Jesves mostly heri-+- 
sontel, Slightly seabrow, rich light green. above, glauces~ 
Cont 86 beneath, recurved toward their apices; inflores- 
Gence usually upen lesfless er noarly leafless brenchlets, 
toward the top only, ite mein brancher sucending but ulti- 
mately drooping; Spikelets densely faseicled, sexuttered 
along the branchlets, srbtercte; glumes green, beeoming 
purplish elonge the exposed murgine and tips, finally dry 
ond @trew brown; "“*Bugte" Brooks Point, Mereh, 1911. 

