
coriaceous, recurved, deeply folded upon the upper surface, 
only a trifle paler green beneath, when young covered with 
fulvous seurfy sealea; flowers axillary and Lateral, in 
amall groupe, ascending snd recurved, fulvous on the outside, 
splitting open slong the lower side; adnate filaments deep 
purple or atropurpureous, anthers melleus, style and stigma 
of the Same color, ovary green but thickly covered on the 
outside with the densely fulvous calyx: Puerto Princesa, 
Mareh, 1911. 
12906, Varmia palawanense “lm. nm. %P, Tre@«-Like 
shrubs in red soil with a gravelly subeoil of wooded banks 
‘along the river at 250 feet: stem 3 to 5 inches thick, or 
thicker, 15 to 25 feet high, branched from below the middle, 
erect or inclining over the river bed; wood moderately hard, 
odorless and tasteless, gradually tapering or shading from 
the sappy white to the ieabellinus heartwood, the redial 
lines very evident; bark smoothieh, the middle portion tes- 
taceous, whitieh on the inner, mottled on the outside; 
branches numerous, the lerger ones ascending, the ultimate 
ones ascendingly curved, quite rigid and therefore brittle; 
Leaves ascending, etrongly folded upon the upper deeper 
green surface, rigidly charteceous; peduncle leaf opposed, 
green, angular, crooked, deseending and with suberect tips; 
flowers alternatingly seattered, usually oniy one in flower, 
nearly odorless, erect, 3 inches across though sometimes 
smaller and occasionally 5 inches seroes; calyx green and 
purplish tinged, refilexed, deeply spoon shaped; petals citri- 
nus, flat, early falling; outer stamens eremeous, the inner 
series erect and purple; the style column fuber, the stig- 
matie mt segments whitish; bude also erect, obovoid, green 
except the purplish upper or apieal on half; fruits erect, 
roseous as are the puxp placentse also, dehisecing from the 
apex toward the base splitting the placentae from the central 
axis: seede stili adhering to the laid open capsule, yellow. 
ish brown and covered with « juicy vermillion red membrane; 
Puerto Prineess, “areh, 1911. 
12907, Garcinia sulphures “Im. nm. 9p. Sreet tree 
in light woods of fertile soil and interspersed with cogon 
grass on plate near 5 xx river at 260 feet; stem 6 inches 
thick, 20 feet high, terete, straight, branched from below 
the middle; wood heavy, sappy white, slightly bitter, odor- 
less, rather soft: bark grayish brown mottled, minutely 
checked or amooth, the middle portion latericius, the white 
ish inner side with an abundance of citrinous sticky #ap; 
main branches divaricate, very long, freely rebranched; 
twigs relatively short, green, ascending, obscurely angled; 
Leaves profuse, horizontal, recurved, strongly folded upon 
the upper deeper green surface; flowers in emall axillary 
clusters, rheid, sulphur yellow even in the bud estate, the 
pistils at firet yellowish white, but soon turning testaceous; 
Puerto Princeaa, April, i911. 
12908, Aeacia pennsta srophila Bak, Subseandent 
and e@epreawling over thickets of fertile flats slong the river 
and in light woods insterspersed with cofon grass; stem 
subterete, 3 inches thick, with blunt spines 1/2 ineh lone, 
bendable, branched 911 along; wood citrinous throughout, 
soft, minutely porous, bitter, odorles¢; dark isabellinus 
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