herd, the outside white, mere yellow in the center, with- 
out oder or taste; bark grayigh green on the smooth surfacé, 
dingy yellow other#ise; leaves charteceous, deseending, 
nearly flat, much peler beneath, alternatingly seattered 
along the twigs; infrutescence apparently young, termin- 
nal, Subpendant, ali dali green, the fruits globese or nearly 
So and lesceded; Puerto Princesa, May, 1911s 
13171. Vernonia villarii Plmy ns Sp.  Seandent upon 
trees in dense forests at 250 feet; Puerto Princesse, May, 
19k1e 
13172 ###Dipterocarpus trinervis Bla, Stately and lofty 
trecs in dense forested flats eat 500 feet; the reund bole 
reaching far above the adjoining vegetation, the limbs more 
or lese crowded toward the top and forming a flattish crown; 
leaves rigid; flowers abundant, whitish mixed with pink, 
giving the entire region a sweet “woodgy" fragrance; the red 
winge of the fruite prettily adorning the nether Side of the 
limbs or crown, Puerto Princesa, May, 1911s 
12173, Perkia harbersonil Pim. Hs 8p. Rather conmon- 
ly scattered in the forests and erpecially along the rivers - 
at £50 to 500 feet, Puerte Primesa, Mey, 1911, 
13174. Dioespyres pilesanthera Bleo. A rather Small 
erect tree in fertile humid dense forests eat 250 fect; stem 
1 foot thick, 25 feet high, wadded at the base, branched at 
the top only; woed lead-peneil red, quite hard and heavy, 
the white sapwood very thin, cdorless and tasteless, the 
central portion apparently turning brownish black; bark 
ater, roughened with exerescences and more or less Scaling, 
ehartaeceous exeept the epidermis; branches short, numerous 
ly rebrenched, the twigs green and lax, leaves coriaceous 
folded upon the upper much deeper areen surfece, ueually 
recurved, especially towerd the tips; flowers few clustered 
in the heaf sxils, eubpendant, calyx green, the corolla 
yellowieh; Puerto Princesa, Mey, 19116 
19175. Gyelostemon iwahigense blu, mn. Pp. Slender 
erect tree in fertile humid fereste at 260 feet nesr the 
river; stem 6 inchs thick, subterete, £5 feet high, its 
main branches from the middle; wood mederstely hard and 
heavy, yellowish especially the central meses, odorless and 
tasteless; branches diverieately spreading, freely re- 
brenched, the ultimate ones Slender yet quite rigid; leaves 
chartaceous, ascending or horizontal, tips recurved, obherwise 
nearly flat, @ trifle paler green beneath; flowers slightly 
odorous, deciduous, in subpendant axillery clusters, ed yx 
yellowish green, hairs whitish, stamens dingy yellow espe- 
Ht aie the enthers, pedicels green. Puerto Princesa, May, 
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