12788. Croton pelewanensis Merr. Smell erect tree 
in good well drained soil of woods at 260 feet; stem 8 inches 
thick, 25 feet high, with mein branches from near the middle; 
branches st the top numerously rebreanehed and forming an 
umbrelle shaped crown, the twigs easily bresking, ereet or 
suberect; wood quite soft, odorless end without teste, dingy 
yellowish wiite especially towerd the center; berk smooth, 
grey and brown blotched, testaceous brown except the epider- 
mis; twigs subverticillate ocessionslly; blades eecending, 
flat, coriaceous, deep sablaeid green sbove, much lighter 
“green benesth; inflorescence ereet, the green more or less 
anguler rechis deseendingly erehed toward the ends; ealyx 
and bracts @lso0 green; stemens end pistil pale ereen or 
yellowish eo, tne anthere more yellow; flowers slightly 
fragrant; sticmss turning brown with ege. Puerto Princesa, 
Maroh, 1911. 
12789.  Telaume villeriane Rolfe. Smell suberect 
tree, in dry humus govered soil, of wooded fists at 280 
fect; stem orookei, 7 inches thick, 20 feet high, branched 
from the middle; wood tough, yet moderetely herd, gradually 
enangin® from the whitish sapwood to the ochroleneons center, 
without odor or taste; bark yellowish gray blotehed, isabelli- 
nus except the emooth epidermis; the main branehes ultimately 
numeroucly rebrenched; the branehlets slender with exnberect 
green tips; leavés ample, elternetingly sesttered #11 along 
the branchlets, neerly flat; horizontally @preeding, shining 
on the upper surfece but otherwise Similerly dark green; 
bude termine], subpend@nt, pale green end smooth, solitary; 
pele green hard fruite eimiler in position, ellipaoia, 2 1/2 
ifish long, the sesles spotted with minute milk pimples, 
becoming rough and seurfy brown. Puerto Prineessa, Mareh, 
12790. Meliole diplochseta Syd. nov. spec. Upon 
the lower side of the older leaves of Msgnoliscese number 
12789; patches few seattering widely, irreguleriy eireular 
in outline, the black vegetative growth forming # cushion; 
spore cases globose, smell, deeper black. Puerto Princesa, 
Mereh, 1911. (Host:= Talsuma villeriens Rolfe.) 
12791. Polystictus senguiness i'n. Puerto Princesa, 
Mereh, 1911. : 
{No deseription) 
12792.  Musesaends philipica Rich. Quite » slender 
tree in compset soil of the eogon region end bordering the 
woods at <60 feet: stem 8 inches thick, 20 feet high, terete, 
crooked, branered from above the middle: wood moderately 
herd, odorless and without taste, dingy white; berk brown, 
densely lenticelled, pale omber except the epidermieg; main 
branches aseending, freely rebranched; leaves eecen ding 
and strongly reeurved, thinly coriaceous, deeply folded upon 
the derker green upper side; inflorescence erect, green 
as is also the ealyx; corolle greenish on the outside, the 
segments on the outedde with theiz tips very pale green, the 
upper side aurantiaeus; the outer calyx segment of the outer 
flowers occasionally petaloid. Puerto Prineesa, Mereh, 1911. 
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