12784. Meliole lsevigats Syd. nov. spec. Upon the 
lower side of old leaves of Apocynecese number 12783; cirenuler 
petehes derise, coal bleck, widely seattering, developing -to 
large sizes, causing the chlorophyll to ehange to a pale 
lateus; globose spore cases minute, derk Black end shiny. 
Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. (Hoet:- Paraletonia 
¢lusiecea Bail.) 
12785. Bypoestee pulgarense Elm. ne gp. Loose tufts 
in dry fertile humus eovered soil of woods at 250 feet; stems 
severel or fewer, subereet but usually reclining upon the 
adjoining thickets, 3 to 6 feet long, usnslly few brenehed 
from the base, end more freely branehed above the middle, 
terete, at most 1/3 inch thiek, derk green; brenches slender, 
eparingly rebfenched, the free ends drooping, the tips 
subereet; wood greenish exeept the whitish pith, odorless; 
lesvee horizontal or deseendinge, reeurved, otherwise flat, 
deep green above, much paler beneath; flowers in email 
sessile axillery clusters, erect, the bracts end galyx 
pale green; eorolls silbue, turning stremineus, the lower 
one half strongly reeurved, the upper portion nearly 
streight, both halvee streaked with purple in the throat; 
pistil end filements white, enthers grayish. Prerto 
Prineese, Merch, 1911. : 
“12786. Hemigraphis hireute 4ndr. Bienniel or 
pereriniel herbs in good compect well dreined soil of woods 
at £250 fect;.steme few in s eluster, occasionally branched 
from near the bage but ususlly from above the middle, 1 to 
S or more feet long, reclining upon the adjoining thiekets, 
terete, dull greeny less then 1/4 ineh thiek, the nodes 
thiekened end siving rise to roote; branches widely spread- 
gk ing, only speringly rebranched; leaves filet, eoriaceous, 
sublucid and dark green above, beneath subglauceseent or 
atrovioleceous; spikes erect or euberect, distinetly 
equarrose in the bud state, the pele green or atrovioleceous 
bracts widely separating after enthesis or in the fruiting © 
state; flowers deciduous, 1/2 inch long, the eylindrie tube 
yellowish white, the segnenis lilecinus; stamens eremene, 
pistil white, eslyx atrovioleceusxx, Puerto Princesa, 
Mereh, 1911. 
12787.. Mitrephors leanotean (Bleo.) Merr. A slender 
erect shrub-like tree in dry fertile humus eovered goil of 
woods at 250 feet; stem 1 inch triek, terete, 10 feet high; 
branches from above the middle, divericete, Isxly rebranched; 
wood odorless am well se tastelees, moderately herd, the 
heartwood yellowish, otherwise whitieh; berk smooth, bleck- 
igh brown, whitieh exeept the epidermis, comparatively 
thiek; lesevegs horizontally spreading, subchertaceous , 
nervose, lueiad ebove, duller and slightly peler beneath, 
the apices slightly reeurved; inflorescence leaf opposed, 
pendant, foligineonue hairy the florel parte eside the calyx 
ereme us. Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 

