of petals with a strong bend at the constricted middle portion, 
all 6 heavy snd succulent; the flowers mumrkx usually solitary 
pendant, rather unpleasantly fragrant; fruite hard, green, 
ellipsoid, 3/4 inch long; the flowers harbor numerous black 
ants and more or less of white scale insects around its stelke; 
Fuerto Princeesa, Zareh, 1911. 
12656, Glochidion baleshanense “lm. nh. Bp. Bhrub in 
gravelly soil of the densely wooded banks of the Baleshan 
river at 250 feet; stem a few inches thick, 10 feet high, 
pranched from near the base; main branches epreading, numerous 
ly rebrenched; the ultimate twigs green, leaves mostly horizon+ 
tal, chertaceous, shallowly folded on the upper deeper green 
surface, recurved eepecially toward the spex, the younger 
blades lighter green; steminate flowers stalked, melieus, 
their bude green; capsule flattened, 1/2 inch saeross, between 
purpureus and etropurpureus, bearing a prominent green stigma, 
whitieh green at the maded base, the persistent calyx aleo 
red, Gelobed and Ge-celled, usually 2 seeds in each cell; 
seed coat deep miniatus; wood rather hard, odorless and tastes 
less, the outside sappy white, the central mass 4 trifle 
reddish tinged: bark castaneus on the deeply checked outer 
surface, umber brown otherwise; Puerto Princesa, March, 1911. 
128687. Begonia mindorensie ‘err. Succulent and forme. 
ing dense colonies in a mantle of wet earth overlying seepage 
Ledges along the Salsshan river at 500 feet: steme eccasional- 
ly branched, creeping, 1/2 ineh thick, reddish livius, the 
termine] portion suberect and leaf bearing; petioles terete, 
similar in color, rather strict; blades tiped or pendant, flat, 
shining green above, whitish creen beneath, the veins «reen 
not tinged with red, the petiole subtended by red bracts or 
stipules; pedunele from the uppermost lesf axil, Similar in 
shape and color to the petiole; flowers similar in color 
except the whitich perianthdthe male flewere whose anthers 
are deep yellow; Puerto Princess, March, 1911. 
12656. Orophea palawanenge “lm. nm. 8D. “mall slender 
erect tree in fertile humus covered soil of densely forested 
@lopes slong the Baleshen river at 500 feet; stem & inches 
thiek, terete, 30 feet high; branches forming an elongated 
erown, divaricate, slender, from the middie; branch lete 
slender, tough, horizontally spreading; lesves cubmembranour, 
descending, very @eep green above, exceedingly paler beneath, 
petioles nearly black, flat with only their tips reeurved; 
inflorescence exillary, 911 the stalks and eslyx deep green 
and with blackish heaire; the 3 petals nearly viridus, elawed 
at the base, strongly recurved and rugose on the upper side, 
rather soft in texture, early falling; stamens yellow; flowers 
only faintly fragrant; wood nearly sulphureus and turning 
blackish toward the center, soft, odorless, 4 little sweet; 
bark grayish white mottled; smoothiesh, yellowish prown 
except the epidermis; Fuerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12659. Anseardium occidentale Linn. &tocky tree in 
adobe grasa lands at 250 feet; stem 1 foot thick, 20 feet 
high, branched from below the middle, subterete, branches 
widely spreading, numerously rebranched, forming a dense 
rounded crown; twigs asecendine, auite rigid; wood white, 
moderately soft yet more or less burly, odorless and taste- 
lees; bark thick, gray, smooth or minutély checked; leaves 
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