12757,  Knema iaterioia Bim, ts» Ss. Smkll erect tree 
in humus eovered 8011 with @ gravélly subsoil on wooded 
banks ef the Iwehig river at £250 feet; wood rather soft, 
reddish tinged toward the center, oderless ami testeless; 
berk brown, Sealing in thin plates, molasses red benexth 
the epidermis and with a s§milarly colored sap; Bien 7 
inches thiek, 30 feet high; branche divaricate, mainly 
eat the top, freely rebranohe’; leaves horisontal or 
deseending, flat, submembrancus, dark green above, glau-« 
cous bonesnth, the midvein yellowish; flowers solitary or 
ususlly clueteredg the rigid and fleshy perianth segnents 
latericius on the outelide, inearnatus on the inner; nut 
ebovelidly elongated, 1 inch lone, fussy end dork latericizs; 
nut bleck, covered by a fleshy membrane which at the apex 
is vuevelly lacereted end apparently becoming readaish when 
fully meture; Puerto Princesa, Mereh, 1911. 
12759, Combretum equencsum Roxb. Tearge tree climber 
end spreWlins Sikes over their tops, in e rich wooded flat 
along the river at 250 feet; stem terete, 2 inches thick, 
bendable; melleus wood soft and very porous, with a dark 
brown pith, a yard long piece contains enough water to 
produce a flew when held vertically, slightly foetid, taste- 
less; bark relatively thick, pale uber brown, the epi- 
dermig Scaling in very thin plates or flakes; branches 
tough, freely rebranche’; leavet coriaceous, Slightly 
derker green on the deeply folded upper side, 
reourved; infrutesecence terminal or upon Spesialized 
Shoots, erect or nearly 8c, upon Scurfy brown Stulke; 
fruite pale green, turning red with age or exposure, 4- 
Winged; Puerto Princesa, March, 1911. 
12760. Protinum philippinense Flas ny Sp. Hed ina 
sited tree on creavelly river hanks and extending over the 
water; 4n dense woods nt 250 fect sltitude; stem 1 foot 
thiek, 30 fect high, branched teward the tep only; wood 
herd, burly, 4istinetly bitter, odorless, only the sapwood 
white, otherwise nearly roseat; bark gray, Smooth or 
acaling in pletes, testecens exeept the surface; stem more 
or less wedded; branchlets numerous, freely rebranched, the 
numeroms|*lexible branchlets hanging over the creek or river 
bed for 15 feet and nearly dipping inte the water, forming 
dense masses in a festoon-like manner; rachis and pedicles 
testacecuely ehining; leaves copieus, all along the branch- 
lete descending; leaflets pendant, shining above, recurved 
and upually folded upon the upper side, only a trifle 
paler beneath; infloreseence arising from the terminal 
leaf axils, secending, green, the inner floral organs pale 
greenish white; the twigs have a strong turpentine+like 
oder; Puerte Princese, March, 1911. 

