12793,  Mugenia atropunctata ©. B. Rob, Medium sized 
tree in soil mixed with stones of denee woods of a creek 
bottom at 250 feet: etem & feet thick, 40 or more feet 
high, wooded toward the bage, otherwise terete and streight, 
branched at the top only; wood odorless as well as tasteless, 
the espwood white, gradually changing to a latericius heart, 
quite hard and brittle; bark avelloeneus, smooth, nearly 
beading brown exeept the epidermis; branches widely spreading, 
numerously rebranched; the twige relatively short, crooked, 
suberect; leaves ascending or horizontal, coriaceous, tips 
recurved, curvingly folded upon the upper deeper green side; 
inflorescence fragrant, frofuse along the branchlets, 211 the 
stalks dull green, the calyx yellowiech or more proper luteus, 
the petale and stamens cremeus, the ovary disk similer in 
color to the calyx; Puerto Princess, Vareh, 1911. 
12794, Gymnostachyum nudispies (Cik.) fim. Peren- 
nial heres in fertile soil packed with gravel stones alme 
a creek bottom at 260 feet ond in denge woods interspersed 
with bambooe; stem reclining at the base, usually consider. 
ably reised above the ground surface, the lee? bearing portion 
erect, dirty green, with numerour slender fleshy roote; 
leaves soft membranous, the petioles agecending, the blades 
horizontally spreading, the upper eurface mixed with darker 
and lighter green patches, beneath uniformly much paler green; 
peduncle badine a9 are also the bracts and even the ealyx; 
flower ascending, only slightly recurved, the basel one half 
tubular and white, the segmente as well ae the inflated 
upper one half violaceous, 3/4 inch long; Puerto Princesa, 
March, 1911. 
12796. Fieus celtoides “lm. n. #p. Breet shrub in 
stone gravelly soil along the wooded creek at 250 feet; 
atem 4 inehee thick, 10 feet high, crooked subterete; wood 
moderately hard, dingy white, odorless and without taste, 
finely ringed; bark emooth, grey end brown mottled; branches 
arising from the middle, widely spreading, numerously and 
crookedly rebranched, the lax rather short twigs me erect 
oY nearly so; petiole sseending, castaneus; blades aseend« 
ingly recurved, especially toward the apex, 9 trifle paler 
green beneath, tough on both sides, charteceous; figs 
scattered along the branchlets or axils of the leaves, soli- 
tary or in small groups, pale latericius, hispid, 1/3 inch 
across, globose or more elongated, becoming ouite soft with 
maturity, the flowers roseus to inearnatus; Puerto Princess, 
Mareh, 191i. 
12797. Guios subseplieulata Radlk, Suberect tree in 
gravelly or stony soil of a wooded stream bank at 250 feet; - 
stem 7 inches thick, terete, branehed from below the middle, 
branches numerously and laxly rebranched; wood soft, white, 
light, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, brown to grayish 
white, testaceus except the epidermis: leaflete dese ending, 
eubchartaceous, paler creen beneath, the main nerves yellowe 
ien, flat: infrutescenece ascending, fuligineue hairy, the 
Sewinged fruite deep green, ultimately turning reddish; 
fruits when ripe jms purpureus, the earpels eplitting open 
from the apex and exposing the hanging brown seeds covered 
rare "% aurantiscus colored meat; Puerto Princesa, March, 
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