12639. Rinoree pulgerensie Elm. n. sp.  Suberect shrub, 
in srevelly soil packed between bowlders. of e densely wooded 
stream ot 1800 feet; wood closely greined, white exeept the 
dingy yellowish sentrel portion, odorless and testeless; 
bark emooth, grey except the testeceuc inner portion; stem 
a few inches thiek, terete, 10 feet high; main brenches from 
below the middle, ¢rookedly rebrenohed, widely epreading, 
twige lex; lesvee horizontel or deecending, thinly coriaceous, 
fist, derk green above, very much lighter beneeth, the 
young leevee pleasing light green; flowere seuelly solitery 
upon aecending terminal oreeteate green stelke; celyx very 
pale green; petals snow white} pietil pale green except the 
ereeamy yellow ovary base. Puerto Prineese, Mareh, 1911. 
12840. Pterospernum meerocarpum Foehr. Quite large 
tree in woods elong etresms st 1600 feet in grevelly soil 
packed between bowlders; stem 2 feet thick, hollow, terete, 
eseending, branched toward the top meinly; wood soft, white 
on the outeide, rosens toward the middle, light, without 
odor or taste; bark thick emoothish or seeling in plates, 
latericine exaept the epidermie; brenehes widely epreading, 
freely rebranched, forming « flettish crown; lesves descending 
or horizontal, derk green end shiny on the upper nearly flat 
gurfece, streaminenus to eremeus beneath, thinlyw@e coriaceous, 
the veine nearly mellens; inflorescence erect, goliteary or 
few olustered in the leaf axile, bade terete, 1/2 inch thick, 
B inches long, quite eoft in texture, calyx thick, 6, flavo- 
virenus, folvae seurfy on the outeide, ultimately recurved 
and eubpersistent; eorolle white, early wilting, imbricately 
twisted, stemene end pietil sleo white; flowere early 
felling end sweetly fragrant. Puerto Princesa, Meren, 1911. 
12641. Pteroepermem perrinii Elm. ne ep. Medium 
gised tree in stony e011 of densely wooded stream depression 
at 1600 feet; stem 1 foot thick, erooked, terete, branched 
at thee top only, 20 feet high; wood soft, light, with mk only 
@ thin white sepwood, otherwise pele  semaweamea roseur or lead 
peneil color, odorless end testelese; berk thick, neerly 
atropurpureus except the emoothieh or only obseurely checked 
gray epidermie; branchee spreading, leathery in the texture, 
elender; leaves horizontel or descending, curvingly folded 
upon the upper very deep green surfsee, tips reourved, 
isabellinus below, thinly coriaceous; flowers mostly eolitery 
from the lesf sxile, flevovirens snd fvlvour seurfy beneath, 
the 5 sepmente twisted to the left, quite thin, persistent, 
recurved and persistent; eorolle oresmy white, strongly twisted 
and imbriested, etamengs and pistil of tke same color except 
the flevovirene etigma; bade ereet, terete, soft, & inches 
long; flowers nesrly without odor. Puerto Princesa, 
Merenh, 1911. 
12842. Stemonurus merrittii Merr. Smell erect tree 
on 8 eteep gravelly wooded slopesx of e stream depression at 
1750 feet; stem 4 inches thiek, eubterete, 20 fevt high, 
branched from the middle; wood moderetely soft, dingy white. 
throughout, odorlese, slightly bitter: bark smooth, gray, 
whitish except the epidermis; brencher divericefie, very \ 
slender, forming en elongated crown, speringly rebranehed, green, 
leeves coriaceous, subpendant, elternatingly along the 
branches very shining green sbove, very much . 

