terminel ond subterminal, 211 the stalke a8 well as the calyx 
pale green; fruite subglobose, 1/4 inch in diameter, from 
dull green turning to ochreceus and finally becoming soft . 
measly and vinosus in color; sweet to taste; wood soft, dingy 
white, odorless and tasteless; bark nearly latericius, smooth 
or roughened with darker exeresecences; Puerto Princess, 
Mareh, 1911. 
12779, Casearia polyanthsa merr, A medium siged tree 
on stone gravelly soil of a densely wooded river bank at 750 
feet; trunk 1 1/2 foot thick, 35 feet high, divided into 
main aseending branches from the middle; wood white, moderate- 
ly herd and brittle, weremecmbderpeteet odorless sand tasteless, 
finely areained; bark gray to whitish, eealing in rather Large 
and thick plates, avellaneus exeert the epidermis; branches 
few, long and wx eprending, epsringly rebranched, their tips 
suberect; twige slender, horizontally spreading or descending, 
oceasionally rebranched; leaves pendant, subchartac couc, 
folded upon the upper deeper green and shining surface, the 
terminal one young and much paler in color; buds green, in 
small suberect axillary fesciciles; fruits upon short thiek 
stalks, ellipsoid, 1 inch long, ieee luteus, lecelled, with 
several to more seeds imbedded in a yelow membranous meat, 
the thick exocarp yellow throught and with whitish streaks; 
Puerto Frincees, Mareh, 1911. 
12781. Minorea fasciculata (Tures.) Yil. lender 
erect tree in fertile well drained we soil of light woods at 
266 feet altitude; branches chiefly at the top, spreading, 
numerously rebranched; twigs lax, e@reenish; leaves descending, 
neerly fiat, dull green above, paler beneath, subchartaceous; 
flowers upon spreading whitish green pedicels, clustered in 
axillary dark green and rigid tubercles; calyx and basal 
portion of the corolla subglaucous, the ‘apies1 portion of 
the latter cremeus; pistil greenish, snthers yellowigh except 
the white tips; flowers odorless, pendant; wood dingy white, 
rather hard, heavy and brittle, odorless and tasteless; bark 
whitish blotched, smooth, the middle portion yellowieh, the 
inner side testaceus; Puerto ¥rineess, March, 1911. 
12781 a. Rinorea fasciculata (Turez, ) Vale Puerto 
Princesa, Yareh, 1911. 
(No description) 
12783. Paraletonia clusisees Sail. Quite -. slender 
tree in rich well @m drained of Light woods at 250 feet; 
stem & inches thick, terete, branched above the middle, 30 
feet high; branches divaricately spreadinc, freely rebvranched, 
the lax ultimate ones crooked and ascendingly curved, relativee 
ly short and usually in verticels; wood moderately hard, 
heavy, gradually shading from stramineus to mellens in color 
odorless and tasteless; bark emooth or finely and very 
obscurely checked, gray, yellowish except the epidermie, 
the inner side nearly sulphiureus; twigs areen, abundantly 
provided with latex; leaves coriaceous, rotately spreading 
from the ascending: petioles, shining deep green on the 
conduphieste upper deeper green surface, tips recurved, 
inflorese ence suberect, upon stout dark green peduncles, 
calyx pale green; corolla albus or streamineus; pistil whitish; 
anthers yellowish, turning brown after having shed their 
pollen; o14 leaves turning citrinius before falling; 
Puerto Frincess, March, 1911. 
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