12694. Megaranga totentoeta Muecll, Arg. Small erect 
or ascending tree int@amp sandy 6011 of woods near the beach; 
stem 10 inches thick, 20 feet high, widely branched from 
above the middle; wood white, soft, light, odorless and 
tasteless; bherk gray mottled, brewn except the epidermis, 
roughened with ex@rescences; branches wamerous, forming 
an umbfelle~like crown, amooth, @ark green and ococabienslly 
glauceus, the twigs ascending; blades pendant, soft mem- 
branous, deep green on the outer side, glaucous green be~ 
neath, Volns yellowish white; inflorescence ascending, 
yellowieh green, the anther® purer yellow; "Binwau," 
Brooks Point, February, 1911. 
12695,  Gyelostemon iwehigense Films nm. Spe Sail 
erect tree in moist aere or lesa sandy Soll of woods 
®kirting the beach; stem 9 inches thick, 20 fest high, 
branched from the middle and forming en clongated crown; 
woed hard, brittle, heavy,dingy yellowish brown, without 
taste or ofor; bark pekxexk sreyish white mottled, 
roughened with lentiesls or exerescent toward the ground; 
branches rigid, breaking with e enap, montly horizontally 
Spreading; leaves charteceous, flat with recurved tips, 
very dark ereenebove, much paler benesth; old flowers in 
éxillery faseleles, the strict green pedicels spreading, 
all pale areen and besnring the 2-plated dry brown etigua; 
veang fruits apparently S-celled and 4-eeeied; "Magluny." 
Brock#e Point, February, 1911. 
12696, Polystictue meleazris Derk. Flexible upon 
‘pearly retten limbe lying some few feet off the humid 
ground in dense woods at 15 fect altitude; «11 the ¢o~- 
lonies divaricetely arranged or Set, creamy white beneath, 
axay and beantifully marked on the wpper surface, the 
margins thin and whitish, nearly flat; “Kelet.” Brooke 
Point, Meh. 1911. 
22697,. Cleome eeutifolia “im. ns ap, Ususlly 
Solitery erect bkennal in moist sand-gravelly soil slong 
the Lere river bottom et 40 feet elevation; roeks white, 
quite rigid, ercoked; lesve@ ascending, Slightly viseia, 
membranous, easily wilting, 9 trifle p@ler bencath, the 
leaflets usually folded upon the upper side, Slightly 
viscid; stems terete green, hispidulous; flowers erect, 
distinetly foetid, erect, in fine bloom in the early 
foornoon; calyx yellowish green, with Gark purple 
bases; petel#® greenish toward the much narrowed base, 
otherwise bright yellow; filaments and pictil siuilar 
in eolor to the exlyx, the former bright yellow imne- 
diately below the anthers; anthers strongly recurved, 
ore black; "“Lampotaki.” Breoks Point, February, 
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