13225.  ##Protium philippinense Flim. Me eps. Gnarly tree 
on modest stony wooded river banks at 500 feet; stem 1 foot 
thick, terete, branched from below the middle, 25 feet high; 
wood quite hard, bitter, Slightly turpentine scented, gra- 
duelliy changing from the outer white sapwood to the lead 
peneil red greater central mase, heavy; berk thick, red- 
dish brown exeept the grayish white smooth or thinly plated 
surface; main brenches widely epresding, laxiy and nume- 
reusly rebrenched, the free ende usually drooping, leaves 
@escending, recurved toward the apex, flat or Bhallowly 
folded, derker green above, charicceous, the petioles and 
petiolules usually becoming brown colored: fruits brick 
red oy brownish red when mature, 1/2 to 3/4 ineh thiek, very 
irreguler, Wueliy from 1 to 5-Rehed, only cocnsionally 
an ovary developed inte a stony seed 3/8 inch long; Puerto 
Princesa, Mey, 1912. 
16226, Pieus heuili Bleo. Small shrub-like treo in 
#and gravelly Soil slong the wooded benke of the river et 
500 feet; wood dingy white, odorles®, Slightly sweet to 
taste, with numerons comeentric rings; bark whitish, very 
enooth; stem 8 finehs thick, 20 feet high, branched from 
necr the bese; the main branches ageending, ultimately 
widely spreading and freely rebranched; tmx twige sub- 
erect; petioles becoming brewn; leaves eseending, to- 
riaceous, Shining deep green on the upper usually curved 
surface, paler green beneath end main nerves whitish: figs 
in peimfrom the leaf exile, suberset, upon @tont more or 
less angelar ané green stalke; fruits 3/4 inch ecrose, 
fiattened at both ends, ridged especially from the apex 
downwerd, the upper part greén while the basel portion be~ 
comes whitish, densely covered with white or brownish white 
lenticels; flowers sappy white; Puerto Princesa, May, 1911s 
13227, Brythroxylun iwshigense Film, fe Sp, Barly 
tree or only Shrub-like, in wet etony @c11 of the wooded 
river banks at 500 feet; stems few from the base, 6 inches 
thick, #0 feet high, vrebraneched from below the middle; 
main branches widely spreading over the river bed, ulti- 
mately numerously end leaxly rebranched; twigs short, 
suberect; leaves eseending, coriaceous, paler beneath, 
shallowly folded upon the upper side, reeurved teward the 
apex; flowers erect, solitary from above the o14 leaves 
and just from below the new ones, green except the whitish 
petels end filaments; oederless also; wood hard, heavy, 
burly, odorless and tasteless, the outer 1 inch whitish, 
suddenly changing to a dark reddish brown or choeolete color; 
berR deeply checked ani scaling in thick but rather ®mal1 
plates, dull brown, reddish brown exeept the epidermis; 
Puerto Princesse, May, 1911, 

