game color as the white radial divisions; bark dirty brown, 
roughened with Lenticelle or exerescences: leaves pale green, 
chartaceous, »eecending and recurved, nearly flat, tips 
atrongly recurved, margins usually coarsely wavy toward 
the apex; young infruteecence slong the branchlets chiefly, 
green, the fruite ovoidly ellipsoid, lees then 1/2 ineh 
Long; ovary 2ecelled, but the fruits devbloping only 1 seed; 
Puerto Princess, Karen, 1911. 
12671. Xanthephylium floriferum Zlm. n. 2p. Quite 
large trees in rich humus covered soil of dence foreste 
at 780 feet on the trail to Napsan; stem 21/2 feet thick, 
terete, 45 feet high or higher, straight, branohed at the 
top; wood quite hard, odorless and tasteless, melleous 
throughout; bark similarly corored beneath the smooth gray- 
- igh white epidermis; main branches crooked, ultimately 
namerously rebranched, the twige lax, rather slender and 
aseendingly curved; Leeves descending, coriaceous, folded 
upon the upper much darker green surface, scattered along . 
the green twigs; panicle green, ascending, calyx pxp pale 
green, corolja creamy white, with age turning luteus; flowere 
ederless; Fuerto Princesa, March, 1911. 
- 12872, Croton argyratue Sim, Slender erect tree 
in good humus covered soil of deep forests at 750 feet 
along, the trail to Napsan; stem terete, 5 inches thick, 
20 feet high, branched above the middle; wood yellowish 
white, soft, Meght, odorless, slightly serid; bark gray, 
covered with rough exereseences, badius exeept the 
epidermis; stem crooked; branches slender, ascending or 
spreading, the ultimate slender lax ones; Leaves horizon- 
tally spreading, chartaceous, deep green on the upper 
shallowly folded surface, avellaneus beneath, tips 
recurved, the petiole ond veine covered with cupreus 
seales or haire; inflorescence erect, terminal, oceasion+ 
ally branched from near the base, of the same color, 
pedicels and ealyx yellowish green, stamens sulphur yellow; 
Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12873. Wrightie henleyi “im n. ep. Low erect 
ehrub in compact soil of dry copses at 256 feet; stems 
several or few from the same root cluster, 1/2 ineh thick 
er thicker, 3 to 6 feet high, branched toward the top only; 
wood quite herd or tough, white, without odor or taste; 
bark gray, with lighter gray lenticels, the hypodermis 
@reen, brown, smooth and minutely eheeked on the branches; 
leaves pendant, corieanscous, folded upon the upper much 
deeper green eurface, tips recurved; inflorescence terminal, 
always dividing the branches, green even the buds; petals 
5, the outeide ae well ase the upper side of the apical 
portion sulphureous, the thickened cushion on the upper 
surface toward the throat inecarnatus: stamens yellow, 
pistil whitish; flowers erect and odorless; pods in pire, 
subterewe, pendant, dark green, 6 inches long at least. 
Puerto Frineesa, Maroh, 1911. 

