Larger ones #easuring 1 yard in length: branches for, 
aivericate, aseendinely curved, flower bearing from sbove 
the middle, stalks end calyx melleous, corolla sulmiureous, 
or when old oremeous, stamens of the same color, ovary disk 
aurantiaceous; Fuerte Princess, March, 1911. 
12890. Cleistenthue pewudecenescene Fim. A slender 
emall tree in red soil of humid forests at 750 feet; stem 
4 foot thick 35 feet high, mostly branched toward the top, 
terete, wadded ot the beee; main branches numerously rebranch ed , 
forming dense masses; twice quite rigid, brown Lenticelled; 
wood quite hard, with a bitterish green odor, tastel eas, 
rOgeous red except the relatively thin eapwoodf bark #1 fo 
yowens exeept the areyich smooth epidermie; leaves char- 
taccous, descending, folded upon the upper green surfsce, 
olivaceous on the nether eide of the young ones which in 
the old blades becomes nearly glaucous green; flowers 
odorless, profusely clustered in the leaf axils or in 
the axile of their sears, quite rigid, eaducous, citrig 
neus yellow in 211 its parts, even the bude are nearly 
of that color. Fuerto Princegag March, 1911. 
12891. Zigypeus palawanensie “1m, mn. #p- Seandent 
and sprawling over the tops of forest trees of fertile 
flats aiong the trail to Napean at 750 feet; stem terete, 
flexible, 1 inch thick, repestedly branched toward the 
top; wood soft, porous end with ex sweetigh water, yellowe- 
ish white exeept the brownish central mage; bark emooth 
or lenticelLled, the middle portion isabelliue, ax main 
branches widely spreading, green, tough; twige numerous, 
green, spinescent, relatively short; leaves horizontal 
oY descending, shining green on the upper shellowly curved 
surface, paler me beneath, tips strongly recurved inflores- 
eenee from the uppermoet leaf exile, erect, slightly 
fragrant, green exeept the yellow overy disk snd greenian 
white anthers; Fuerto Princess, Nareh, 1911. 
12892. Petreovitex trifoliats Merr. A tree 
climber and sprawling over the tops of them in rich 
humid forests at 750 feet on the trail to Napean; stem 
1 1/2 ineh thick, obscurely quadrangular, bendable, branch ed 
all along toward the top; wood odorles# and taste] eae, 
divided by the bark inte 4 distinct sections, porous, 
very soft, dingy white; bark greenish gray, whitish except 
the epidermia, nearly smooth; branches very slender, 
4eangled, smooth and green or the older and larger ones 
brownieh, very tough; lesves upon ascending green petioles; 
the leaflets diverse in xrxm size, descending, coriaceous, 
folded upon the upper slightly deeper green surfece; 
panicule much exerted, terminal, » yard long, ascendingly 
curved, stalke and bracts dull wine red or blue, calyx 
nearly of the seme color except the green segments which 
remaine greenieh even ke to the fruiting state and develops 
into 5 rotetely spreading wings; corells caducous cremeous 
yellow, odorless; Puerto Princess, Maren, 1911. 

