L274. Gymnostachyum palawanenSe Hime Me BDs Low 
biennial herbe, forming donve patches over compact soil 
ef open places among woods at 250 feet; Stems numerously 
branched, Short, green, more or less angular, taking 
roots at the joints; leaves thinly coriaceous, horizontally 
Spreeding over the ground, much peler beneath, very dark 
velvety green above except the glaucous sreen portion 
glong the midrib and more prominent lateral ones; the 
inflorvescent stalks, bracts and calyx green; flowers 
étronaly recurved, coeruleus blue, the Segments deeper 
blue; Stamens 2, eeesius; Style whitish; ovary green, 
Puerto Prinee@a, Mareh, 191lis 
12742. Prema inteagrifolie Linn, Shrub-like tree 
in good compact #011 of wooded plots at 250 fect; stem 
crooked; 5 inghes thick, terete, branched from the middle; 
branchlets quite Slender, Spreading, tips suberect; wood 
tasteless, Slightly edereus, dingy yellowish white, quite 
herd end heavy; bark thin, yellowiSh gray, areenish 
benesth the minutely checked epidermis; leaves Spreading, 
nearly flat, corieceous, Shining dark green above, the 
young blades light areen; inflorescence erect, green exeept 
the cremeus Stemens and castaneus calyx tips; berries 
globowe, 1/4 inch in diameter, shining niger, juicy, with 
@ Bingle stone-like ®ceds. puerto Princesa, March, 1911. 
128748, Eugenie iwahigensis X1m, ny Spe Medium 
Sized tree in rich humus covered Soil of woods et 250 Leet; 
Stem terete, 1 teot thiek, 55 feet high, branched mainly 
toward the top end forming « dense flattish crown; twigs 
erect, numerous, releiively short; leaves thick and rigid, 
fist, ascending, paler beneath; pedicels green, calyx 
yellowish so; petals and filements white, as is alse the 
Style; overy @up or rather calyx cup deep yellow, anthers 
@remeus; flowere only slightly fragrant; berk dark brown 
below the yellowish areay surface which in the old State 
veually peels in Small plates; calyx teeth with pink margins; 
wood hard, brittle, quite heavy, oderless, a trifle bitter, 
the eentrval portion nearly umber colored, Puerto Princesa, 
Mareh, 1911. 
12744. Keyea peniculata (Bleo.) Merr, Slender tree 
in good compact sei] of a weeded flat at 250 feet; stem 1 
foot thick, 46 feet hich, branched toward the tep only, 
terete; branches ascending, numerous, the ultimate ones 
lax; wood stringently bitter, odorless, sappy which exeept 
the reddish central portion, rather soit and conspicuously 
ringed: bark Smooth, gray and white mottled; reddish brown 
beneath the Surface; coriaceous leaves pendant, folded 
upen the upper darker green Surface; Sstalke of Spreading 
inflorescence suiphurecus, the calyx only lighter —.—..-- 

