13237. <Antirrheca philippinensis (Bth.} Rolfe, Shrubs 
on Secpage ledge® along the wooded flanks of the river at 1000 
fect; stem few inchs thick, subterete, 10 to 15 feat high, 
branched from below the middle; wood hard, heavy, odorless 
and tasteless, dingy white or brownish in the center; bark 
thin, yellowish oxcept the smoothish gray epidermis; branches 
spreading\’inely and laxly rebranched; leaves membranous, near- 
ly flat and with recurved tips, Slightly beneath; flowers 
subpendant «6 are the deep purple 1/5 ineh long fruite; ¢o- 
rolla sreen at the calyx but in= full anthesis turning. yellow- 
ish or even orsnge red; fruit juicy, obscurely angular anc 
with roundly truncate ends; Puerto Princesa, May, 1911. 
13258, Securideca atro~/Slecen Elm. Me Bp, Seandent 
end sprawling over shrubs and small trees upon secpage flanks 
along the river at 1000 feet; stem terete but gnarly, 1 to 
2 inchs thiek; woot soft, odorless and without taste, mmm 
matky “greduelly changing from the sappy white to the brown- 
ish central mass; bark grey end sealing in 6mall plates, 
that on the long branches emooth and de-K green; twigs 
drooping, «8 do also the corisceous leaves which are re~ 
latively glaucous ereen beneath; fruits yugesely compressed, 
with en oblong 1 inch long by ife inch wide wing. Puerto 
Princesse, May, 1911. 
13239. Buxus rolfei Vid. ‘Shrub on stone gravel Geil 
aleng the wooded banke of the river at 1000 feet; stem 3 
inches thick, crooked and burly, branched from near the 
base, terete, 10 fect high; wood closely grained, brittle, 
very bitter, sappy white on the outside, the greater central 
mess yellowish; odorless; bark finely checked longi tudinal- 
ly, yellowish gray throughout; main branche® crookedly re« 
branched. and widely spreading, the twigs quite rigid; leaves 
ehartaceous, horizontal, flat and abruptly recurved st the 
apex, much darker green above; flowers axillary, brittle, 
odorless, greenish, the besel ones mele, the terminal ones 
female; Puerto Prinoess, May, 1911. 
13240, tLevueosyke mazalleanensia Fim. Erect shrub in 
wet shal low earth upon rocky river flenks et 1000 feet; _ 
sten few from the seme root, terete, 1 ineh thick, 10 fect 
high, branched from below the middle,vather Straight and 
erect; wood soft, easily breaking, dingy white or brownish 
towerd the cemter, without oder or teste, lerge pith; bark 
reddish brown except the smooth grey epidermi#; main 
prenches widely spreading, freely but not mumeronély re- 
branched; twigs @lenier, lex, more or less zig-zag along 
the greenish leat bearing portion; leaves deseending, 
flet exeept the recurve’ tips, dull deep green above, gray- 
ish white beneeth with reddish main nerves; inflorescence 
divericately spreading and somewhat ascending, the etalke 
green, the odorless flowers dull fleshy rei; Puerto Prince-~ 
ee, May, 19116 

