12901y Ternetroemia gitingense “lm, Slender erect 
rather oms]l1 tree in low blamk compact soil of the adobe 
kind, in a lightly wooded flst at 250 feet; stem 7 inches 
thick, 25 feet high, terete, crooked, branched at the top 
only; wood quite soft, odorlesr and tastelees, the thin 
sapwood sappy white and rraduslly shedine into the incare 
natue heartwood; bark emoothieh, arayieh white, letericious 
otherwise; branches ghort, freely rebranched, forming 4 
condensed crown, secending or erect; Leaves thickly coriae 
eceous, crowded in a subwhorl st the ends of the twigs, erect 
or secending, flat, much paler or yellowish green beneath; 
fruits crowed from the ends of the second year old twige 
benesth the foliage, pendent upon recurved badious colored 
pedicels; eslyx persistent, thick, yellowish, becoming 
also brown; fruit ellipsoid, 3/4 inch Lone, .mealy beneath 
the skin with 2 ruber red seeds luteous on the outeide, 
yellowich white within; Puerto Princeaa, Wareh, 1911. 
 UeReoe, Ardisia romanii Tlm, n. 9p. Sreet but rather 
erooked trees in fertile eubsadobe soil of 4 lightly wooded 
beein or flat at 250 feet; stem terete, 7 inches thick, 
20 feet high, branched st the top chiefly; wood moderately 
soft, odorless end without teete, with conspicuous radial 
lines, testaceoues throughout; berk of the game color exeept 
the brown and gray mottled, emooth or minutely checked 
eurfece; branches forming 1 rather emall dense crown, divae 
rigate, unbrenched, aecendincly curved toward - - their 
ends, the Larger main brenches oecasionslly branched; young 
Lighter green leaves agcending, *he o14 ones pendant, rigidly 
coriaceous, usually somewhat folded on the upper side or 
nearly flat, much paler green or nearly glaucous green benesth ; 
inflorese nee rigid, arisins from the uppermost leaf axils, 
the etalks creenish; vetale deep livideous, twisting ly 
imbricated in the ovoid bud, even the ealyx of the same color, 
rotately spreading, filaments pink, anthers yellowish on 
the inner faces, cesions an the outer aide, ovary psle yel~ 
low, style whitish; flowere odorless and eaducous; Puerto 
Princess, Yareh, 191114 
12904, Sugenia gubminies Zim, n. 3p. Suberect 
shrub, in @ravellyse soil of wooded dry stream beds at 250 
feet; stem 3 inches thick, crooked, subtereate, 10 to 15 
fest high, branched from below the middle; main branches 
aseending, ultimately laxly and numerously rebranched; wood 
is@bellinus toward the eenter, eenpy white on the outside, 
odorless and tasteless, cuite hard end heavy; bark emooth, 
yellowish white, avellaneus otherwise; the green portion 
of the twigs suberect, slender, angularly striste: leaves 
flat, sseendins, or horizontsl; rigidly chartaceouc, much 
lighter green beneath; inflorescence erect, 211 the stalke 
paler green and angular: eslyx creeniesh and the rim whitish 
usually tinged with pink,petale white, the middle outéide 
portion sleso tinged with red; filaments white, anthers 
more yellow: young fruite green with purplish calyx rin, 
veer in paire and eubsresile. Puerto Princess, March, 
1911. 
12905, Loranthus ferrugineus “oxb. Subpsraeitic 
upon 2 Tiliaeeus tree standing upon a wooded river bank at 
260 feet; stems several rr from the game cluster, 1/3 to 
1/2 ineh thick, 3 to 5 feet long, spreading in 911 directions, 
freely rebranched; branchlets brown, ouite lax; Leaves 
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