12820. Myris tice anbellete Slms n. sp. Smell or 
médiam sized tree in dry stony soil of oe forested ridge at 
1000 feet; etem 36 feet high, 1 foot thick, subterete, more 
or less orooked, branched from above the middle; wood "whitish, 
tinged with red vesseéhs, soft, licht, odorless end testeless; 
bark rather thick, ater gray, smooth or sesaling in thin 
plates, latericius except the epidermie; branches spreading, 
erooked, numeroasly rebranched;: the ultimete slender ones 
lax, green, aseendingly exurved;leeves varying from ascend- 
ing to descending, flat, tips end margine reeurved, — 
eorlaseous, deep green above, glaucous green beneath; inflo- 
resgeenee ascending from the lesf axile, greenish; peri anth 
ochrelineos aesdeith the greenish tips. Puerto Princesa, 
Mereh, 1911. 
12821. Ixora palawenensie Merr. Lax undergshrobe in 
g00d humus eovered soil et 760 feet; etem terete, 1/2 inch 
thiok, ocesghonslly branehed from near the ground, only 
sparingly rebrenched toward the top; wood moderately soft 
and dingy white, without odor or teate; berk emooth, brown, 
leaves eeattered along the bren ebletse whigh are usually 
reeurved, flat, corisceous, dark green except the lighter 
lower surface, the young leaves pale green; inflorescence 
terminal, erect or subercet, the stalks ruber, the brects 
greenieh, the ecrolis tube Similar in color, the 4 rotete 
or descending segments miniatne red; stigme with the 
exerted portion of the etyle purple; fraite red. Puerto 
Prineesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12622. Thea me gacearpa Blms Ne SP. Striet elender 
tree in dry humge covered 6011 of e forested ridge at 1000 
feet; stem terete, 4 inetes thiek, streight, £0 feet high 
or higher: wood hard and Gente brittle, dingy white on the 
onteide, the central bulk mlilens; bark smooth, yellowish 
grey; bedine on tre Fae side, main branches forming an 
elongated erown toward the top, freely rebrenched; leaves 
ageending or horizontal, flet, rigidly coriaceous, very deep 
green mak ebove, much peler bene ath; fraits terminal, pendant 
solitary, compressed globose, &£ 1/2 inch seross, herd, isa- 
bellinus, dehiecing into 3 thick sarpeles from the apex to the 
bese, the partitions betwecn the 3 celle rather persistent 
to the popper side of the old persictent carpels. Puerto 
Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
Le824,. Sideroxylon foxworthgi Hlme ns Bp. Mediam 
' giszed tree in good soil of a forested ridge et 1000 feet; 
stem 1 foot thick, 50 feet high branched from above the middle, | 
subterete; wood hara, tough, or burly, bitterieh, odorless, 
the eapwooa white, the eentrel mage tarning rose 48; bark 
esmooth, grayish mottled, the inner portion leterigius, the 
inner side with latex; branche s forming #n elongated crown, 
the twigs rether ele nder md ascendingly curved; flowers 
deseending, slightly fragrant, fuliginene heiry, the 
corolle and e@tamens eremene, the style and pistil moré green- 
ieh, the heiry ovary reddieh: leaves horizontel mostiy, 
rigidly chertaceons, flat, dark green above, the conspicuous 
nerves beneath covered with fuliginene hairs. Puerto 
Prineesa, Maereh, 1911. 

