12921. Ventilego oblengifolis Bim, Lofty tree climber 
in moist soil of sand and gravel tmw in wooded banks of the 
Iwahig river at 250 feet; stem terete, 5 inches thick, bend- 
able, branched toward the — > top; wood porous, very soft, 
the thin outer portion dingy or yellowieh white, the eentral 
mags deeper yellow, nearly odorless «and tasteless; bark 
relatively thick, deeply checked, the divisions rounded, 
‘etherwigse nearly emooth and grayish brown, the middle mass 
eremeous, the inner eide sulphureous; branches widely epresad- 
ing, the ultimate ones numerously rebranched, dark green, 
and suberect; leaves descendingly curved, submembranous, 
shining on the upper @x folded surface, equal green beneath, 
the sides more or less twisted toward the apex, the young 
piades lighter and even yellowish green; inflorese ence 
green, ascendingly curved, the anthers more yellow but soon 
turning brown, odorless, profuse; fruits hanging, green, 
somewhat compressed, with’ a thin leathery subviridus wing; 
geed solitary, ovoidly lenticular; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 
}2922, Ruellisa philippinensie “im. n. 8p. Sreet bien« 
nial, in moist humus covered alluvial ¢oil bearing copses, on 
the raised banke of the Iwahi¢ river at 260 feat; stem erect, 
solitary, otooked and nodulose, sutex subherbaceous, grayieh 
green, terete, 6 to 10 inches high, barely more than 1/6 inch 
thiek, unbranched: leaves secending or the lower ones horizone- 
tal, gubmembranous, paler beneath, gublucid above, flat; flow- 
ers terminal, erect, solitary, odorless, nearly I ineh lone, 
the white tube much constricted toward the base, the other pert 
of the tube inflated end a trifle flattened, the serments 
violaceous; calyx green ss the leaves; Puerto Princess, 
April, 1911. 
12924. Leena javaniss Sin. Shrube, in slluvial voil 
long the Iwahig river at 250 feet, intermixed with dense 
eopmes; etem few inches thick, 10 feet hich, crooked, sscend- 
ing, terete; wood quite soft, sappy white, wkixenm with « large 
prown pith, odorless and tasteless; the radial Limes in 
evidence; bark ardisisous on the nearly emooth or only slight. 
ly lenticelled epidermis, avelleneous otherwise: the mein 
vranches from the middle, sparingly rebreanched: Leaves spread- 
ing of gomewhat drooping, » yard longs, only the basal pinnse 
again pinnate, alternatingly scattered toward the ends of the 
green branchlete, © > rachis green, hiepiduloue, with swollen 
nodes; leaflets flat, horizontsl or descending, very lucid 
sbove, paler green beneath; inflorescence erect, terminal, 
green, except the white corolis which with ac@ becomes yellow 
igh, and the yellow anthers and their purple connectives; 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12928. YPhytocrene macrophylis Dim. Seandent upon 
smell trees standing on wet alluvial soil of the iwahig river 
at 280 feet: etem flexible, 4 inenes thick, terete in wukm 
outline but more or lees rugulose or wadded; branched s11 
along eepedially at the top; wood porous, very soft, sweet, 
odorless, conspicuously mixed with stramineous and melleus, 
the central portion arranged whorl-like; branches slender, xxrmm 

