12863, Sarringtonia balabecensis Herr, Small erect 
tree in dry humus covered rather fertile soil of dense forests 
at 600 feet on the trail to Napean; stem 6 inches thick, 
15 feet high or higher, terete, branched from the middle 
and forming a widely spreading crown; wood cremeus, fibrous, 
moderately hard, oderless and tasteless; bark badius and 
erigens blotehed, « ©, smooth, isebellinus exeept the 
epidermis; branches epresading, not numerously rebranched, 
crooked, flexible; Leaves crowded at the ende of the ancend- 
ing twigs, pendant, chartaceous or more coriaceous, slightly 
recurved, darker green on the uprer surface, diverse in 
size; inflorescent spike terminal, terete and obscurely striate 
1/3 inch thiek, ocesasionalyy instead of green becoming 
atropurpureous, fruite obscurely quadrangular, 2 inches long, 
divaricate from the axis, shing green but upon exposure 
turning atropurpureous, the green style persistent; Puerto, 
Princess, March, i?1l. 
12664, Bacesures odoratiesima Him. n. sp. Very slender 
small tree in rich humus covered e011 of dense forests at 
500 feet along the trail to Napsan; stem 5 inches thick, 
20 feet high, erooked, subterete, branched from below the 
middle; wood moderately hard, melleous, odorlese and without 
any taste; bark relatively thin, avelianeus, minutely and 
thinly checked; branches divaricate, numerously rebranched, 
the branchlets suberect, eubwerticeliately rebranch ed; 
leaves thinly coriaceoud, horizontally spreading, recurved, 
especially the tips, much paler green beneath; inflorese ence 
solitary or usually in emall fescicles from the branchiets 
and even the stem, pendent; rachis pale green, pedicele yellor- 
ish; flowers citrineus and with » strong molasses odor; 
Puerto Princesa, March, 1911. 
12865, Ardieia iwahigensie “lm. nm. op. Very slender 
but email erect tree in rich humus covered soll of dense 
foreste at 500 feet on the trail to Napean; etem terete, 
2 inches thick, 20 feet high, branched at the top or toward 
the top only; eapwood white, the central meses latericious, 
noderately haré and heavy, without odor and taste, with 
conspicuous radisel lines; branches slender, divaricate, 
crooked, terete, less than 1/2 inch thick, the lower ones 
2 meters long, unbranched, very much thickened at the base, 
leaving large sears after falling, tips aseendingly curved, 
ariseous, the old bark and arayish white, vadions inside: 
leaves seattered, descending, thinly corisceous, nearly fiat, 
muoh paler green beneath, recurved toward the apex, margin 
usually wavy sbove the middle; panicle rigid, aseending, the 
stalks light pink exeept the larger ones which sre seurfy 
brown; calyx shining lividous, except the whitish; corolls 
lilaceceous, enthere dirty yellow, style also reddish; 
Fuerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12666, Nephelium lappaceum Linn. Medium eizged tree 
in good soil of dense forests st 500 feet along the trail to 
Nepean; trunk & feet thick, 56 feet high, crooked, subterete, 
wadded toward the base, with main branches from the middle; 
branchlets numerous, quite slender, flexible, the leaf bearing 
apleal portion suberect; wood quite hard and heavy, the thin 
sapwood white, etherwise latiriceous; bark bedious except 


