12761. Rlecoecarpus versicolor Elm n. sp. Large 
tree in s fertile forested flst at BOO feet elevation 
along the Iwehig river; stem 4 feet thick, terete, some- 
what crooked, 50 feet or more in heigth; branches arising 
from above the middle, widely spreading; wood soft, white, 
odorless and teastelese, light; bark grey, densely covered 
with excrescences or lenticells, 1/2 inch thiek, yellowish 
on the inner surface; branchlets numerous, lex; leaves 
very smooth on both sideg, much deeper green on the upper 
eonduplieate side; infruteseence divaricate, profuse, 
upon 6 inches long dull brown rechizes; .1 inch long, 
bluntly ellipsoid, lutens, but soon after falling becom- 
ing somewhat soft end turn ruber; stone hard and rugose. 
fuerte Princesa, Vareh, 1911. 
12762. Hiptage javanies Blm. Olimbing end sprawling 
over the tops of trees, in sand gravelly soil of wooded river 
banks at 500 feet altitude; stem flexible, 5 inches thick, 
more or less wadded in a twisting manner; dingy white wood 
obtaining @ reddish eolor toward the center, odorless and 
tasteless’, very porous; bark rather thick, full brown and 
smoothish, yellow on the inner side; branches tough, long, 
ocessionally numerousely rebranched end forming dense mesres 
{this is usually a trick of most climbers when they have 
_@gecess to light); leaves coriaceous, horizontal or pendent, 
‘shellowly foléed on the upper deeper green and sublucid 
surface, eoriaceous, tips strongly reeurved; inflorescence 
erect, odorless, @ll the stalks end ealyx greenish and pur- 
plish tinged; thin petals more roseus except the light yellow 
claw of the upper one; style lividus, filements white, 
anthers bright yellow; infruteseence pendant, the expanded 
wings testaceous, their bases light green snd more or less 
pubescent; the rachis end pedieéls pale green. Puerto 
Prineésa, Mereh, 1911. 
12763. Peychotria versicolor Klm. ns. sp. Tree~-like 
or erect end shrubby, on gravelly soil of wooded river benks 
at 500 feet; stem 5 inehes thiek, 20 feet high, terete, at 
the middle divided into main branches; wood herd end brittle, 
dingy white, odorless, bitterish; berk smooth, brown and 
white, blotehed; branches freely reb¥eanched, very crooked, 
rather slender, the ultimate ones suberect; leaves ascending 
or horizontal, coriaceous, much paler green beneath, shal- 
lowly folded upon the upper derk green surface; yeux young 
inflorescence erect, green excepi the greamy white corolle 
bade; infruteseeice subpendulous, green; drups from green 
turning to auruntiaeus then red end finaliy nearly black. 
Puerto Princess, Mareh, 1911. | 
12764. Dendrobium lunatum Lindl.  Smsll tufts hang- 
ing from the nethex side of inglining tree trunks over a 
ridge about 500 feet, stems several, spreading, rigid, flet, 
green; leaflets alternating, descending, flat and mx rigid, 
Similarly very dark green op both sides, the younger ones \. _ 
lighter green; flowers arising from the base of the leaves\, 
pendant, rigid, odorless, subtended by dull brown bracts, : 
the outer florel orgene eremeus and with purplish bases, 
the inner one white and with similarly colored bases. 
Puerto Princess, April, 1911. 
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