12721. Gapparis cerasifolia urny. Eyoot numerously 
branched shrub in dense woods of dry gravelly Soil along 
the Beacoast; aten few inche® thick, terete, branched from 
below the middle, 9 feet high; wood moderately hard or 
Solid, without oder or taste, whitish; bark smooth, grayish, 
Suooth, on the branches greenish and SpineBcent; twigs 
Slender, Bpreading; leaves subnenmbrancus, flat, descending, 
@ trifle peler areen beneath; pedicels strictly ascending 
areen a8 if also the calyx; petel®s pure white except Sor 
the yellow base] bloten of the upper one and which with 
ege turns atro-violaceous; anthers yellow but Soon turning 
to the Same color, filements and Style white, Stigma green; 
fruits subglebose, dark lividus; 1/3 inch across; Brooks 
Polnt, March, 191i.» 
12726, ‘Beuhinie merrillianea Perk. A widely sprawling 
Shrub in dry hot steny 8011 of dry stream beds at 100 feet 
altitude; stem angularly flettened or subterete, 1/2 ineh 
thick, flexible, branched all sleng; wood greenish white, 
vather seft, oderless and tasteless; bark brown, deep green 
beneath the epidermis; twige slender, greenish, terete; bracts 
yellowish; leaflets pendent, submembrancus, deeper green 
and on hot deye folded upon the upper Side; veins yellowish 
brown beneath; buds erect, Flowers Slightly odorous; oalyx 
segments fulvue on the outside, green on the ppper; peteais 
creamy white, aruntieeus when old; the 6 fertile stamens 
creamy white also; pistil brown except the green Stigma; 
Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12724. Rineree fascieulata minor Hlms» Me Vare 
Small or medium sized trees in dry compact 8011 of light 
woods at 250 feet altitude; stem & inches thick, 30 feet 
high, branched toward the top and forming an elongated 
dense crown; woed hard, ka heavy, brittle, yellowish white, 
nearly odorless and bitter; berk smooth, mkkkk whitish 
‘mottled, relatively thick, redaish brown on the inner 
Side; branchlets numerous, quite short, bendable; the green 
apies] portions obseurely uigzag; leaves subcharteceous, 
hanging, ecurvingly folded upon the upper deeper green 
eurface, the rugese receptecles dark green; pedicels 
lighter green, 28 is also the calyx; petels sulphureus, 
early felling; stamens neerly of the Same Golor, ovary 
very dark deep greens Puerto *rincesa, Mareh, 1911. 
LB7B5~6 Croten leiophylius Muell. Arg. Small tree in 
dry compact soil of light woods bordering grass lands at 
250 feet; stem 6 inches thiek, 25 feet high; branches above 
the middle, quite numerous end forming a dense crown; 

