12834, Beilsehmiedis nigrifolia Tim, n. ep, mali 
erect, tree on gravelly wooded river banks at 1000 feet; 
stem 5 inches thick, terete, ite main branches from the 
middle; wood quite hard, burly, dietinetly bitter, odorless, 
oehraceus except the heartwood which is of «a darker yellow; 
bark grayich brown, more or less cheeked and sealing in 
thin plates, letericius exeept the epidermis; branchlets 
numerous, lax, crooked, the green apices] portions suberect, 
oceasionally in subwhorls: Llesves aseending, glaucous 
beneath, lucid and pleseing green on the upper curvingly 
folded surface, thinly coriaceous and very emooth: inflores- 
cence axillary, secending “le ¢reen,exeept the dull 
gaa etamens or petals {¢ 3 Puerto Frincesa, March, 
1911. 
12636. Radermachers biternets Nerr, Suberect tree 
in damp etony eoil 8% of densely wooded river banke at 1000 
feet; stem 6 inches thick, 15 feet high, crooked, subterete, 
branched from below the middle; wood quite hard, closely 
arsined, slightly bitter, odorless, the thin sepwood white, 
the middle portion nearly testaceus, the heartwood ater 
to nearly black: bark thick, dull brown, cracked and sealing 
in emell plates, reddish tinged but the epidermis: branches 
numerous, rather slender, crooked, the terminel portions 
guberect; Leaves secending, 211 the etalke greyish green; 
Leaflets similarly disposed, coriaceous, shallowly folded 
upon the upper much deeper green surface, tips sbruptiy 
recurved; fruite pendulous, terete, pale green, tepering 
at both ends, 7 inehes long: infloreseence terminal, sub- 
erect, % foot lone or less, #11 its stalke greyish ereen 
and obecurely angled; flowers ascending, odorlees, 1 1/2 
inch long, 3/4 inch at the throat in the least; corolls 
greadually widening from the base te throat, more or lege 
flattened, ite tube lividus, the segments lilacinus; 
Fuerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12637. Carruthersie laevis “1m. n. ep. Seandent 
and sprawling over treee of the wooded river banks at 1000 
feet in damp rocky or stony soil; stem twining, 1 inch 
thick, terete, bendable, branched sll along towad the top; 
wood yellowish white, odorlese and without taste, very soft 
and porous; bark dirty brown, emoothish, testaceus beneath 
the epidermis; branches castaneuc, terete, tough, numerously 
rebranched, forming interlineced masses, the twigs usually 
erect or nearly #0; leaves ascending, chartaceous, very 
dark green above, paler beneath, only shallowly folded, 
tips strongly recurved, the young leaves much paler green; 
inflorescence atrictly erect, yellowish green, except the 
ochraceus corolla and stemens; Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 
1911. 
12838, Aschersonia cinnabarina P, Henn. Chiefly 
upon the nether side of the leaver of Nadermachera number 
12836: forming rugose circular basine of lutens or aurane- 
tigeua eolor and with minute apertures through the sunken 
central portion, occasionally on the upper leaf alse; 
Puerto Princess, ¥areh, 1911. (Hoet:- Radermachera biter- 
nats Kerr, } 

