12668,  Stereulie lusenicea Warb, Burly tree in sand 
gravelly So11 @lone a wooded beach 1 mile north from the 
point; stem 1 foot thick with 2 tinor ones from the sane 
reot, 20 feet high, with mein branches from below the mid} 
dle, crooked ond ascending; wood very seft, whitish, 
odorless and tasteless, bark thick, gray cant covered with 
brown lehticelis; pranches widely spreading, naunero us] y 
yebrancnec; hranehlets crooked, bendable, subereet and 
Spresding; leaves deseending, folded upon the upper slight 
ly decper green surface, subcoriaceous; inflorescence d4i- 
vericately Spreading, heavy and half eueculent, all the 
Stalks pale green; perienth thick, alse areen exespt the 
reddish brown tips, the whele of the inner side of the 
seme reddish brown; anthers irregularly elustered about 
& Subglovese head, bright red when fresh but soon turning 
brownish; pod-like fruite pendant, @ivariestely spreading; 
"Be lined." pods when red bright pleasing red; Brooke 
Point, February, 1911, 
12689. Glochidion litterale Bla, Tree~-Like shrub 
in meiet sand arevelly #011 of weeds salons rivulete near 
the beach; stem 5 inches bag a, 15 feet high, with main 
branches arising frea below tre middle; wood slightly 
bitter, oferlesa, moderately "hava and heavy, gradually 
reddening from the sappy white eapwood towsrd te center; 
bark reddinh brown except the cheeked and more or lese 
shredded surfaee branchlets numerous, the mein branches 
long end Gpreading; leaves coriaceous, nearly flat, 
Sleusous green beneath, deep grecn above, ascending; 
fruite in small exiliery elusters, when aature smooth 
and apple red, at least 1/2 inch across, equelly flattened 
at both ends, enbtended by 5 or 6 green calyx Segments, 
lO-Besded: tabange «" Brooke Point, Peburery, 1911. 
12690. Pongemia glabre Vent. Burly tres in wet 
send erevelly Seil slong helf mangrove woode of rivu- 
lets nesr the beach; etem 2 feet thick, very ¢rooked, 
6 feet high, with mein branches from below the midéic; 
wood hard, tough, dingy white on the outside, with cons 
picuons soncentric rings, oderless, distinetly ewevtish: 
bark mottled, dingy yellow white exeept the smooth end 
lenticelled epiderni®s main brenches spreading, ulti- 
mately freely rebreanched; the twigs relatively shert, 
crooked bendable: leaves thinly coriaceous, flat, at- 
sending or horizontal, Gimilar sreen on hoth sides; 
infLoreseence eaegending, the dark green rachis agcend= 
ing and very flexible; pedicels also green, divaricats; 
flowers odorless, pendant, deciduous, calyx dull brown; 
banner greenish townrd the base and otherwise brownish’ 
on the upper Sifte. the lateral petals pink, the keol 
whitish; filemonts ané style also creamy white; ane — 
thers yellowish brown; "Merobahay."” Brooke Point, 
February, 1911. 

