16228. Canearium eumingii Engl. Middle-eiszed tree 
in wet sand gravelly soil of densely wooded river benke at 
500 feet; astem 2 feet thiek, terete, crooked and partly 
leaning over the river bed, the main branches arising from 
above the middle, 45 feet high; main brenches crookedly, 
repeatedly rebranched: the slender; wood 
quite herd end burly, nearly odorless and tasteless, white 
except for the slight reddish twigs towerd the center; bark 
grey, plated, the middle region light brown, the inner side 
sappy white; with a tarpentine odor; leaves horizontal or 
descending; leaflets subpendant, thinly coriaceous, shining 
green on the upper folded surface, slightly paler beneath, 
veins greenish white, tips reeurved, infruteseence horizontal- 
iy- spreading, the young fruits derk green; Puerto Princesa, 
Mey, 1911. 
13229. Homalomene elmeri. Engl. n. sp. Forming dense 
tufts on wet banks or along the lower edge of large rocks 
lying in the river bed at 500 feet; Puerto ?rineesa, ay, 
19il. 
1OE31,« augenia incernata “lm. nm. sp. A rether 
amel11 middle-sized tree in or upon seepage roek ledges along 
the river et 750 feet; stem 1 foot thiek, terete exeept the 
burly or wadded base, more or iess crooked, 35 feet high, 
branched toward the top; wood hard,. heavy, bucly, odorless, 
slightly bitter, gradually changing from the outer dull 
yellow brown or nearly white sapwood to tne brownish bleck 
heart; bark dull yellow except the sealing grag or dull 
brown epidermis; branehbes forming a flettish dense crown; 
the ultimate ones numerous, subereet and lax; leeves eopious, 
ascending, eoriaceous, flet with only the spex recurved, 
much paler green beneath; infrutescence erect, terminal; the 
brenches anguler, pele green, snooth and shining; mature 
fruit oblongish globose, 3/8 inch long, of a pretty wavy red 
eolor, containing one or more green seeds; Puerto Princesa, 
May, 1911. 
13232. Nematothecium vinosam Syd. nov. gen. et spee. 
Ou the nether side of leaves of sugenia number 13231; patehes 
rather large, few, sirealer; the mycelial growth nearly 
black; the spores centrally grouped in circular or in 
fashion, brownish, numefous: Puerto “rincesa, May, 1911. 
This is the most interesting fungus of your Palawan 
collection. It is a quite peculiar new genus: Host:- 
Gugenia inearnata Elm. 
13233. Sugenia parpariflora Elm. n. sp. 4 smell 
slender strict tree in stony soil packed with wet sand along 
the river at 750 fect or higher sltitude: stem terete, 3 
inches thiek, 20 feet high, with oecesional branches above 
the middle; the.outer one half sappy white, the centrel 
méss brownish, quite heavy, odorless and tasteless; bark 
testaceous except the minutely checked Berk brown epidermis; 
branches short, divserieate, lex, few branched; leaves slso 
few, oppositely scattered, horizontal, filet with reeurved 
tips, peler green beneath; stalks and ealyx of the odorless 

