12798. Rinoree faseiculete minor Blm. ns vars Medium 
sized tree in gravelly soil of wooded stream banks at 250 
feet; stem 10 inches thick, terete, chiefly branched at the 
top only; breneres quite numerous, forming e smell dense - 
erown, twice lex: leevee descendinz, eurvingly folded apon 
tre upper darker green surface, strongly reeurved toward 
the epex, eberteceous; fruite divaricately spreeding, 
from green exillery tubercles, pedicels end ealyx pale green; 
fruite green, 4-seedei, shiny, obecurely 3-angled, otherwise 
neerly globose, lege than 1/2 ineb thick; berk emootn, grey; 
wood odorless end testeless, gradually chengine from the 
whitish sapwood to the melleus heartwood; quite heavy end 
herd or brittle. Prerto Princeea, March, 191). 
12799. Erioglossum rabi¢inosum Blm. Sreet shrub- 
like tree in well drained #011 of woods at 260 feet; stem 
h inchee thier, crooked, subterete, branched from helow the 
middle; brenehes widely spreading, the twiees subereet; wood 
rather heard, odorless, tasteless, dingy yellowish white, 
heavy; berk gray, checked and sesling in pletee, casteaneus 
on the. branchlets; leaves sscending or horisontal; the leef- 
jets pendant, subchartevceous, or membranone, nearly flet, 
similer ¢reencen both sides; inflorescence erest, green 
except the creamy white eorolle stemenre end pietil. Puerto 
Princesse, Mereb, 1911. 
12600. Champereie eomingienay(Beill.) Merr. Smell 
erect tree in dry fertile humus covered soil of woods at 
260 feet; stem 6 inches thick, 20 feet high, breneched from 
above the middle; wood heavy, hard, brittle, eremeue especially 
toward the center, odorless end tasteless; bark smoothish, 
gray and white mottled, green beneath the epidermis, other- 
wise stramineus; branches ereet, erookedly rebranched, 
brittle and breaking with a snep, the suberect twigs green; 
leaves ascending or horizontal, lucid on the folded upper 
side, the younger ones much paler green, charteceons; infru- 
tescenge lstera@l or axillary, the stelke pele green, the 
ellipsoid fruitiluteue man and with e single seed, 3/8 ineh 
long. Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12801. Asterina decipiens Syd. nov. spec, Chiefly 
upon the nether side of tie old leaves of en Oleacene (7) 
namber 12800; et first the colonies seem to be gircular, 
then irregular ad finally contiguous and spresding the 
entire leaf surface; spore cases minute, apparently globose, 
deeper shining blsek. Puerto Princess, March, 1911. 
(Host:- Chempereis eumingiene (Baill.) Merr. 
12802. Seolopie fragrene Elm.n. ep. Smell etrict 
and slender trec in fertile hanns covered soil of forests 
at £50 feet; stem 35 feet high, 10 inehes thick, wedded 
toward the bese, branched above the niddle, wood nerd, 
heavy, brittle, odorless end tasteleas, ihe thin eapwood 
whitigh, the gmell eentral portion badius, otherwise testsceus; 
bark dall brown, smoothish, latericius except the epidermis; 
main breughes crooked, freely rebrenehed and forming e 
dense crown; twige lex, mostly horizontal or drooping; 
leaves subpendant, corisceous, asvelly folded on the upper 
surface, deep green especially the upper sides;inflorescence 

