12816, liaeesa cumingil vez, Seandent shrub sprawling 
over thickets and light woods of dry compact soil at 500 feet; 
stem bendable, terete, branch mostly above the middle, 1 1/2 
inen thick; wood soft, porous, distinetly eweet, odorless, 
the outer one half white, the inner portion reddish tinged; 
bark comparatively thick, testaceus except the castaneur 
outer minutely checked and with acattered exereseent portion; 
branches lone, freely rebranched, the outer ultimate ones 
drooping; infrutesecence terminal, pendant, nearly atrovireus; 
Leaves descending, folded upon the lucid upper side, much 
Lighter green beneath, tips recurved, margins more or less 
undulate; Puerto Princess, March, 1911. 
12817. Mallotue enisophylla Hook, trect eparingly 
branched shrub, in dry compact soil of Mght woode at 500 
feet: stene usually few from the same root cluster, 3/4 inch 
thick, 6 feet high, terete; wood closely grained, white, 
odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, greyish green, relatively 
thin; brenehlete few, more or less recurved; leaves impari- 
pinnate, diverse in site, chartaceous, paler green benesth, 
flat or only the apex recurved; male spikes erect from the 
jeaf axils, green, the bract tipe brown, the calyx and 
etamene pale sulphureus; the pistillate flowers on different 
plants, similarly disposed, calyx and ovary green, the 3 
large etigmatic forks nearly citrinus yellow; Puerto 
Prineess, March, 1911. 
12818.  Bugenia purpuricarpa film. n. sp, Rather large 
tree in well drained soil of = forested ridge at 1000 feet; 
stem 3 feet in diameter 50 fo 60 feet high, terete, chiefly 
branched toward the top; wood hard, brittle, heavy, changing 
from the thin sappy white outer portion to the atropurpureus 
heartwood, odorless and tasteless; bark sealing in thin brown 
plates, main branches widely spreading ad crookedly rebranched, 
the ultimate ones very numerous lex, green, erect, usually 
in subwhorls; leaves ascending, shellowly folded on the upper 
darker green side, subchartereous; young infrutescence, 
terminal, widely spreading, erect or ascending, the stalks 
pale green; calyx glsucous green and sprinkled with purple 
red especially in the middie portion above the middle, those 
more exposed entirely covered with purple. Puerto Princesa, 
12819. Trigonostemon merrillii 81m, n. #p. Srect 
shrub, in damp «ich humue covered soil of foreste at 750 feet; 
stem terete,i inch thick, occasionally 2 few from the same 
reot cluster, 5 to 9 feet high, only spsringly branched 
toward the top or not at 911; wood odorless and tasteless, 
pure white on the outside, dingy white on the middle; bark 
grayieh, eaeoth or minutely checked, rouzhened with excres- 
cences; twigs tough, greenieh, suberect; leaves horizontal 
or descending, submembranous, flat, paler greén benesth; 
inflorescence ascending from the leaf axils, the terete 
stalke pale green, bracts yellowish green. bude purple,petale 
vinosus; fruite pendant as the flowers or more so, flatly 
Ceveses 1/2 inch across; 3-lobed; Fuerto Princesa, “arch, 
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