12775. Bugenia mindoroensis C, EB, Rob, Surly tree 
on atone gravelly wooded river banks at 750 feet; stem 1 | 
foot thick, 25 feet high, divided into main ascending branches 
from below the middle; branches freely rebranched and widely 
epreading, the lax relatively short trigs numerous s¢ is also 
the foliage, and forming a dense crown; wood burly, hard, 
heavy, only the thin sapwood whitish, otherwire somewhat 
testacens, 2 trifle bitter, odorlese; bark relatively thick, 
dull brown, sesling in plates, on the branchlets smooth; 
Leaves descending, shallowly folded upon the upper surface, 
apex recurved, corisceous; the main branches of the. erect 
and terminal infrutescence brown, the pedicels pale or yellow- 
ish green; fruite young,slightly uneymmetric, costate along 
the dwarfed side, dark green, bearing the persistent similarly 
colored calyx veine; Puerto Princess, Varch, 1911. 
12776, Pieus leevicarpa “lm. n. yp, A Low ahrub-«-Like 
tree in stone gravelly soil slong the densely wooded banks 
of the river at 760 feet; stem 5 inenes thick, usually branched 
into main widely epreeding branches from near the base, 15 
feet long; branches freely rebranched, the ultimate ones 
rather slender and with suberect tips; wood moderately soft, 
dingy white, closely though econspheuously grained, odorless 
and tasteless; bork quite thick, grayish brown, roughened 
with numerous blunt exereseences, the ineide layer with latex; 
leaves few, flat exeept the récurved tips, thinly. coriaceous, 
very dark deep green above, much paler Breen beneath, horizon- 
tally epreading, strongly merved: fige pendent from the upper- 
most leaf axile, ocessionally crouped slong the under side 
of the larger branches but usually in paire from the axile 
of the leaves, obovoidly ellipseid, 1 ineh long, shining 
deep areen especially toward the apex and spotted with 
whitish colored milk spots, the bracts and peduncle similar 
in color, ovaries whitish, the styles and petianths purple; 
Puerto Princess, Yareh, 1911. 
12777. Areyreia purpuricarps Hlm. n. ap. Climbing 
and evertepping small trees on « stony river bank at 750 
feet; stem twining, numerously branched toward the top, 
terete, 1 inch thick, flexible; wood very soft, porous, 
white except the reddish brown central portion, odorless and 
tasteless; bark relatively thick, dull browm, snd sealing in 
dry irregular plates, latericius exeept the epidermis, fibrous 
branchlets forming dense interlaced mosses, emocth, yellowish 
brown, the leaf bearing short tipe erect; biadee leathery, 
fark green above, horizontsl1, tips abruptly recurved, other 
wise flat, canescently green beneath; involuere nearly lividus 
and covered on the outeide with conescent hairs; fruite 
purpureus, with a single ater colored globose seed; Puerto 
Princesa, Yafeh, 1911. 
12778. “hretia philippinensis DC, Shrub-lLike tree 
in sandy soil packed between rocks on a wooded river bank 
at 750 feet: stem 7 inohes thick, 15 feet long or high, 
branches from below the middle, the main branches suberect, 
ultimately numerously rebranched and spreading; leaves ample, 
pendant, subcoriaceous, strongly folded upon the much deeper 
upper surface, the slender tips recurved; infrutescence 
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