12878. Jacquemontia paniculata Hellier. A sprawling 
perennial in dry good seil of open clearings at 250 feet: 
root flexible, similar to 2 slender tep root; steme several, | 
green, % yard long, freely rebranched 211 slong; branches 
similar; leavee upon aseendinge green petioles, horizontel, 
flat or folded upon the upper side, soft membranous, some- 
what paler green benesth; inflorescence axillisry, erect, 
the odorless flowers umbellately clustered at the top, 
wx bracts and calyx pale green and soft in texture, eorolla 
bud creamy white, the erect flower nearly pure white or 
when old becoming 2 trifle tinged with purplish red, anthers 
eremeous; the central organs never becoming tinged; capsule 
erect, subglobose, 1/3 inch across, with avellaneous colored 
angular dry seeds: Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12679. Solanum insequilaterale Merr. Low euberect 
and euffruteseent, in dry fertile soil of clemrings st 250 
feet wkaw slong the Iwahig river; stem 1 to 3 feet high, 
speringly branched, lere than 1/2 ineh thiek, terete, 
ereoked, spinescent; branches ascending, from the middle 
or from above or from below it, otherwise wimilar to the 
steme but with fewer spines or nesrly smooth; whitish wood 
tough, with a very large pith; bark greenish; Leaves membrae- 
nous, much paler green beneath, horizontel or descending, 
almost flat; inflorescence suberect, the stalke and ealyx 
pale @reen, corolla deep szure blue, the style white and 
bearing a brown atigma, anthers aurantiacéous, ovary green- 
ish white; berries 3/8 inch in diameter, shiny, turning 
tometde yellow or yellowish red when mature; Puerto 
Prineceea, Mareh, 1911. 
12680, WNerremia vitifolia Hellier. %prewling vines 
in adobe soil of grase flats interspereed with shrubs at 
250 feet; stem terete, green, repeately branched, twining, 
at moat I/4 inch thick; petioles erect, purplish tinged; 
blades horizontal, submembranous, 9 trifle paler @ereen 
beneath, the main veins occasional purple; inflorese ence 
axillary erect, few flowerd at the top; eslyx dark purple 
on the exposed sides, the inner ones very pale yellow; 
fkower erect, odorless, ient eitrinouese; capsule compressed, 
with 4 more or lees glabous angular seeds, surrounded by 
the sueculent calyx; Puerto Princees, Mareh, 1911. 
12861. Ardieia ochracesa Blm, n. ap. A rather 
Large tree in rich humid forests at 750 feet on the trail 
to Hapean: etem 3 feet in diameter or thicker, 60 or more 
feet high, terete, streight, branched toward the top: wood 
quite hard and brittle, with conspicuous concentric ringe, 
whitish on the outside, gradually changing to the latericious 
center, odorless and tasteless; bark smoothieh, prominent ly 
nottled, letericious except the epidermis; main branches 
crooked and ultimately numerously rebranched, the twigs 
lax and brown, leaves descending, coriaceous, nearly fist 
or only shellowly folded upon the upper lucid side, much 
paler benesth, with recurved tips: inflorescence usually 
terminal, aseending, from the base, the terminal portion 
drooping, the estalke snd calyx prasineous green, the rotately 
spreading corolla ochraceous even in the imbricately twisted 
bud state; the 5 stamens subseseile, sulphureous, erect end 

