126953. Stemonurus cumingianue Miers. Lax suberect 
shrub in fertile humus covered soil of humid foreste at 750 
feet along the trail te Napsan; stem 1 inch thick, terete, 
7 feet hich, branched from below the middle; wood quite soft, 
white, with silvery white radial lines, nesrly odorless and 
tasteless, bark emooth, grayish green, the inner portion 
whitish; branchlets widely spreading, lax, crooked, the more 
glenderer ones ux somewhat drooping, not numerous: leaves 
chkefly toward the ende, horizontsl or descending, submem- 
branous, paler green beneath, fiat; flowers fascicles in 
the axile of either the fallen or still persietent Leaves, 
yellowish green: the fruits ellipeoid, yellowigh green, 2% 
least 1/2 ineh long, the stigmas pine Puerto Princesa, 
March, 1911. 
128694, ixora leucocarps “Lm. n, 8p. Suberect shrub, 
in fertile adobe or otherwise fertile soil of low lightly 
flats of weedland, or in humid forest at a somewhat higher 
@lewation 250 to 750 feet altitude; stem terete, 1 ineh 
thick, only very sparsely branched from the middle, 5 to 9 
feet high or even higher; the thin sepwood watery white, 
otherwiee whitish, quite hard, closely grained, without 
odor or taste; bark amooth, dull brown, castaneoha beneath 
the epedermis; leaves rather fer, chiefly at the endea of the 
twigs, deseending, thickly coriaceous, only a trifle recurved 
toward the apex, desp green sbove, much paler green beneath; 
inflorescence terminel, also erect, creamy white; the corolla 
pure white, 1/2 inch long; fruite compressed globose, less 
than 1/2 ineh secross, pure chalky white; Puerto Princesa, 
Mareh, 1911. 
12898, Diespyres merrillii “lm. n. ep. Large tree 
in deep #011 of 2 densely forested flat at 250 feat; stem 
4 feet thick, 60 feet high, straight, branched #t the top 
only, wore or lese wadded especially toward the base; wood 
hard, odorless and tasteless, the thin outer portion white, 
tather suddenly changing into the inearnatue inner region, 
aemkex central portion not seen black; bark relatively thin, 
the outer side numerously checked ater or blackish and 
sealing inte numerous small plates, the middie region testa- 
eeoug, the inner surrace yellowigh white; branches grisus, 
erookedly rebranched, forming on umbreils-Like crown; twige 
ouite bendable, suberect, the leaf bearing portion ¢reen; 
Leavee coriaceous, ascending, shallowly curved upon the 
upper deep green surface, canescently green beneath; flowers 
pistillate, terminally clustered, 1 to 3 usually, subpendant: 
calyx yellowish green, corolls cremeus, ovary greenieh, 
densely hairy, the 4 stigmas whitish; young fruits fisttish 
@lebese, 1/2 inch across, These flowers have a very sweet 
fragrance when in anthesis but no longer; they also have 
4 stamens atteched on the corolla base, with spperentiy 
fertile anthers; Puerto Princesa, March, 1911. 
12896. Serbera odollam Caertn, Small erect tree 
on wooded gravelly creek banks at 250 feet altitude; stem 
terete, & inches thick, 20 feet high or lese, branched from 
below the middle; wood very soft, light, slightly odorous, 
white, tasteless; bark ater, thinly checked and flaking 
in plates, with an sbundance of latex; main branches ase end- 
ingly epreading, freely trebranched, the ultimate ones ag- 
cendingly eurved; leaves crowded, toward the tops, rotstely 
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