e trifle paler green beneath; infruteacente pendant, so~ 
liteary ox fow clustered terminally, globose, hard, about 
2 inehes in diameter, green except the minute yellowish 
grey seurfy exereseences; Sseods Severel usunlly, been- 
shaped, premisecnously seattered in & Bolid yellowish white 
mest; “Celelunguo"; the wood is seid to be herd, Brooke 
Point, Pebruary, 1911. 
12663. Plumbase rosea Linn. <A Seooth suftirutescent 
shrub in compact humus covered gol] among a bemboo Glump 
of a lightly wooded stream bank at 50 feet altitude; stems 
few to several from the yellowish half woedy root er ground 
atem, terete, Smooth, green, 1/3 inch thiek, branched a1 
sleng, xeelining end reeurved, forming thin but interlaced 
maseeBs Leaves horizontal or descending, Submembrancus, 
seattered, thote elomg the Slencer #ermins] branchlets 
much vaduced, submembranous, Tlet, dexvk green ebove, Beler 
beneath; inflorescence slenderly brenched, drooping, the 
apies. flower hearing portion suberect or horizontal, the 
reechie and flowering bracts greenish; etlyx dark green; 
corolla bright deep red, @elieste; filaments whitieh end 
tinged with red; overy areen, style and stigma white, the 
latter severrl diesceted; esalrx on the outsifie densely 
provided with taekesheped glands; "Teotungen;" Brooke 
Point, February, L9lls 
12653. Streblus seper Lour, iyees in moist fertile 
soily of woods at £O fect altitude; stem 10 inches thick, 
wadded, orooked, branched from below the miédle, 20 feet 
high er higher; branches widely #preeding, laxly rebrenched; 
wood Sizvongly ringed, moderately hard, dingy white, otore 
less and tasteless; bark yellowish and with gray blotches, 
smooth exeept the coarse Lenticele; twigs numerous brown; 
leeves soetiy horizontal, reeurved, rough and paler green 
benecth, chertaceous; pedicels green, ascending, gredually 
thickened towaré the ends; the bees or rather the young 
fruits eolidly enclosed by the green bracts; stigmatic 
ayms yellowish; ripe frvit shining, pale yellow nesrly 
1/2 inch long, compressed elightiy, truncstely elLlipscia 
from the side view; the subtending breets rotately spread- 
ing, whitish on the inner side, otherwise green; fruit 
juicy, evect,. usually with @ single etone-like globote 
Seog: “Lampataki;" Sapweed or bark with « pale whitish 
SHPe Brooks Foint, February, 19116 
LEGb4. Rimerex palawenoeneie Merr. Lax shrab in rich 
moist humus covered seil of forests at 15 feet eltitude; 
etem eubereat, «rocked, 11/2 inch thiek, branched from 
below the middle, lo fest high; the sprending branches 
vether Slender but not mumercus; wood dingy or yellowish 
white, moderately hard, oderless and tasteless; berk 
Smooth, yellowish gray, dark green benesth the epidermis; 
leaves aueending, subcorieceous, escending or herizontel, 
darker green on the upper shellowly folded surface; in- 
florescence fascieled in the leaf exiles; the oderiess 
flowers arranged seeundately slong the upper side of the 
ereen recurved Btalk; pefiecle and ealyx also green, the 
flowers pendent; corolla greenish yellow, imbrieste; 

