old stem: Leaves not many, #lternatingly seattered toward 
the top, 3 to 5 feet long, horizontally epreading; the stalk 
terete, thickened at the base, fuligineous pubescent; Leaf- 
lets deseending, about 9 opposite pairs, membranous, flat, 
nearly equal dull green on both sides, the basal ones emaller, 
petiole proper 6 to 10 inches £x lone; inflorescence termi- 
nal and gx from the uppermost leaf axile, the 2 feet long 
panicle only sparingly rebranched; calyx fulvous green, 
guak petals and stemena white; fruits 2 or 3 clustered, 
bluntly oblongish, 1/2 inch Jone, turning yellow; Fuerto 
Princesa, March, 1911. 
12918. Ardieia perrottetiana DC, Treeelike erect 
shrub in stony soil of Mghtly wooded river banks at 250 
feet altitude; stem terete, 2 inches thick, at least 10 
feet high, branched from below the middle; wood nearly 
white, quite hard, odorless, with a @lightly bad teste, 
the radial limes numerous end conspicuous; bark relatively 
thick, latericious execpt the emooth grayish brown surface; 
branches divaricate, unbranched, less then 1/2 inch thick 
and grayish, the thickened and somewhat flattened bare 
leaving large scare after falling; the Leaf bearing tips 
guberect; blades chartaceous, ascending or horizontal, 
nearly flat except the recurved margins, @lightly paler 
beneath, in subwhorls: infrutescence far exceeding the 
foliage, paniculately branched, 2 feet long, the main atelke 
pale green as are also the pedicels and subgloboee fruite 
which become ruber red, with 9 solitary stone seed; 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12919. Dichapetalum olivaceum "lm. n. 8D. Climbing 
upon trees standing upen the river bonks et 280 feet, in 
red soil with a gravelly subsoil: stem bendable, 1 1/2 
inch thick, terete, branched 11 slong toward the top; wood 
very soft, porous, ochraceous, especially in the center, 
odorless and with a eweetiah taste; bark murinus , tather 
thick, shellowly checked or #m fluted longitudinally, 
whitish beneath the epidermis, the inner surface < exBling 
an ochralemeous colored eweet somewhat sticky juice; branches 
freely rebranched, lax, slender, emooth and ater, the green 
ultimate tipe suberect; Leaves hanging, chartaceous, deep 
Lueid ereen above, paler benesth, curvingly folded on the 
upper side, the young foliage much lighter green; inflores- 
cence yellowish green, erect, terminal or from the uppermost 
Leaf axils, the odorlese flowers email and nearly of the 
same color; Puerto Frinecess, April, 1911. 
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12920, FPachyrrhizus erosus (Linn,) Urb, A climbing 
vine in dry fertile e011 in shrubberies of cogon flate along 
the lwahig river at 250 feet: etem twining, terete, 3/16 
ineh thick, pele green, flexible, 10 feet long, very rarely 
branched or not“all; leaves widely scattering, horizontal; 
the membranoue lesflets flat, aseaending, much paler green 
beneath; inflioreseence axillary, the green terete pedune le 
erect, pedicels ascending, yellowish green, cslyx ardesis- 
ceous except the yellowish iuth; corells «violse¢ous, the 
banner with a yellowish green blotch on the middle ventral 
side, ®11 their bases whitish, stamene white, pietil greene 
ish so; flowers descending and slightly odorous; young pods 
gubterete, strongly recurved, densely pubeseent; Fuerto 
Princesa, April, 11. 
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