the thin sapwood which is white, without odor or taste; bark 
mixed with brown and yellowish green, yellowish white except 
the smooth epidermis; twige crooked, sseending; chartaceous 
ascending and reeurved, a trifle prler green beneath, the 
midvein whitish; inflorescence spikelets either in the lLesf 
axils or alone the branchlets, divaricately epreading usually 
in small fascicles, subcompressed, dark green; each bract 
with a single male flower; perienth and stamens cremeus, 
the disk or disk-like clands saursantiacus; Puerto Princesa, 
12852, Taxotrophis ilicifolis Vid. Low spreading 
erect tree in sand gravelly soil near the Balsahan river at 
260 feet; stem 8 inches thick, terete, @0 feet high or less, 
branched from below the middle; branches divaricate, Longe 
-and slender, rebranched 911 slong; leaves chartaceous, 
mainly horizontally spreading, nearly flat, tips twisted 
and etrongly recurved, the margins toward the apex usually 
somewhat wavy, very dark green sbove, much paler green 
beneath; etaminate spiked amiliary, usually single, reeurved, 
subterete, ususlly 1 inch long, the bud state vinosus on the 
exposed portion, stamene stramineus, but the filaments 
eceasionally mm vinosus tinged 2190; wood quite heavy, the 
central mess eremeus, odorless and without teste: bark 
brown, roughened with numerous lenticels or blunt exeres- 
eences: female spike similar in eoler but erect, Puerto 
Prineesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12853. Gryptoeerys palawanensie err, Low dwarfed 
tree in sand gravelly soil along the Balsshan river at 250 
feet altitude; atem 7 inches thick, 20 feet high, branched 
from near the base; wood soft, light, oderless and taste- 
less, melleus toward the center; bark smooth, gray and 
white mottled, the middle portion brown, the inner side 
whitish; branches spreading, auite freely rebranched, the 
ultimate ones ascending and green; Leaves descending, thinly 
coriaceous, much darker green on the curvingly folded upper 
side, the main veins beneath yellowish; inflorescence erect, 
terminal, all the stalks and even the perianth yellowish 
green, soft in texture; stamene ochralencas, the outer 6 
with intromse 2-celled anthers which alternate with 6 auran- 
tiacus glands, the inner or nearly sterile 3 stamens have 
their pollen eaeckes nearly isateral, not extrorse; young 
fruits strict, green, ovoidly fusiform, 1/3 inch long, 
pubescent: the inflorescence was heavily infested with 
emall blaek ents; Puerto Princess, Mareh, 1911. 
12854. Polyalthia niekergonii Slm. n. sp. Rather 
email tree in sand gravelly wooded banks of the Salsahan 
river st £50 feet; stem 10 inchee thick, 25 feet high, terete 
except the wadded base, branched from below the middle; 
main branches many, very long, divaricate, forming an elon- 
gated crown; main branches freely rebranched, 211 slong; 
the twiga relatively ehort, suberect, and lax; wood light, 
soft, sulphur yellow except the thin whitish sapwood, odorless, 
distinetly bitter; bark relstively, thick, mottled, smoot 
or roughened with exerescences, leaves chartaceous, horizon- 
tal, duller green above, flat, only the tipe recurved; . 
flowers usually axillary, the eslyx creen, the other floral 
parts all estramineus or cream colored, the inner series 
BGS 880 

