12847. Phyllechore Fieiam Niesel. Upon the upper 
leef surface of Ficus number 12846; the eos] black patches 
irregular but more or less grouped in e eirenler fashion, 
Gieeoloring the leaf to s pale yellow in the eolony only. 
Puerto Princess, Mereh, 1911. (Host:- Pieus gerciae lm.) 
12848. Sarcocephsius fluviatilis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubs in seepage rock orevices or on gravelly banke of 
streame deneely wooded on both sides at 1000 feet; stem 
erooked, 4 inches thick, anguler or wedded, branched 
from below:the middle, 10 to 15 feet high; branches crooked-~- 
ly rebrenched, horizontally spreading over the creek poole; 
brenohdete lex, numerous, escendingly eurved, ususlly with 
fusiform thickenings inhebited by minute small ents; leaves 
in whorls from the ends of the twiee, spreading in a 
rosette fashion, strongly reeurved, otherwise flat, submem- 
branous, derk velvety green above, much peler and lighter 
beneath; young infrutercence dark green the 014 subpendant 
fruite greyish yellow, ovoidly xm globose, nearly @x 2 
inches seross; inflorescence erect, creamy white except 
the green calyx; wood seppy white, quite heavy end 
moderately hard, withont odor or taste. Puerto Princesa, 
' Maereh, 1911. 
12849. Parineriom philippinense 21m. A burly mediom 
sized tree in fcood humus covered soil of densely wooded 
flate at 250 feet; stem 11/2 foot thick, 35 feet high, 
with mein branches from below the middle; wood herd and 
heavy, odorless and tastelese, letericius brown except the 
thin whitish sapwood; bark gray, sealing in irregular pletes, 
latericiae benesth the epidermis; main branches ascending, 
erooked, spreading, ultimately branched, the >brown twigs 
suberect; leaves sscending, chearteceous, similerly dull 
green on both sides, strongly folded on the upper surfece, 
slightly recurved; infloreseenee ereet, greenish except 
the cremeus anthers end thiecked unsymmetrieal lateus ovary 
@isk; flowers odorless. Puerto Princesse, March, 1911. 
126860. Eugenie atropunetate ©. B. Rob. Medium 
sized tree in dense forests of good ¢oil at 250 feet; stem 
nearly £ feet thick, 46 feet high or higher, terete, streight, 
branched at the top msinly; wood testeceous especially toward 
the center, quite sard and heavy, odorless and tasteless, 
the sapwood whitish; bark yellowish or grayish white, usually 
peeling in thin plates, letericiue except the epidermis; 
m8in brenehes erooked end widely spreading, ultimately 
nomerously rebrenched, the twigs forming dense masses; . 
leaves corhaceous, ascending, folded upon the upper much 
deeper green surfece; infloreseenee profuse, along the 
brenchlete, ell the gtelke green, the eslyx ochroléacus 
except the deep purple rim but with age the entire calyx 
becomes tinged with red; the ceducous petele end stamens 
eremens; fiowere fregrant. Puerto Princesa, Merch, 1911. 
12861. Agrostietechys meesorene Vid. Grect shrub, 
in a forested flet of compact soil at £60 feet; stem terete, 
erookec, £ inehés thiek, 10 to 15 fect high; mein branchee 
arising from below the middle, widely spresding, uaz erookedly 
reoranched; wood quite herd, firely grained, cremens except 
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