green, leaf bearing all slong; petioles ascending, terete, 
green, twisted; blades slightly descending, nesrly fist, 
charteceourt lucid sbove, paler beneath; infrutescence 6 inches 
thick, globose upon short thick etalke from the stem or larger 
branches; drupes obconical, with a sherp «umber, ferrugineous 
hairy. Puerto Prinoess, April, 1911. 
12926, Briogloseum rubiginosum Pim. Slender erect 
tree-Llike shrub in hwnue covered alluvial eoil on the banks 
of the Iwahig river densely covered with copses; stem terete, 
2 inches thick, 15 feet high, speringly branched toward the 
top; wood quite hard and heevy, finely ringed, 2 trifle 
aweet, odorless; bark iesbellinue rugose, smooth except 
the cracked ruguleae; branches suberect, fuligineous; leaves 
alternatingly scattered, horizontel, 2 feet long: leaflets 
deseending, slightly paler beneath, membranous; inflorescence 
erect, terminal, green except the whitish inner floral 
ergans of the odorless flowers: Puerto Frincesa, April, 
1911. 
12926, Rriogloasum rubiginosum D1m. Puerto Princess, 
Mareh, 1911. 
{No deseription) 
12927, Jagminum bifarium Vall. A woody climber and 
aprawiing over the woods snd thickets slong the gravelly 
benke of the lwahie river at 250 feet: stem at least 1/2 
ineh thick, terete, bendable, branched 911 along: wood soft, 
dirty white, pith large, odorless and nesrly without taste; 
bark avellaneous, thinly shredded; branchlets tough, green, 
terete, slender and with the free ends drooping; leaves 
ascending, membranous, or drooping, nearly flat, paler 
green beneath, usually twisted toward the reeurved ende; 
inflorescence erect, green eseept the greenish white tube 
and pure white corelle segments: the flowers faintly but 
wane ke fragrant, early falling. Fuerto Frineess, April, 
1 ais 
129268, Merinds philippineneia Yim, Sesandent snd 
sprawling over thickets or light woode of flats slong the 
ilwahig river at 250 feet: atem terate but made rough by 
very coarse excrescences, crooked, 1 ineh thick; wood very 
seft, bendable, flavus, divided into several radial dividions, 
porous, sweetish, odorless, the yellow sketa#& divisions 
divided by the sappy sapwood; bark brown to gray, lenticel- 
led or excrescent, branchlets numerous, forming dense inter- 
laced masses at the top, the slender ones drooping; leaves 
deseending, thinly corisceous, strongly folded upon the 
upper slightly greener aurface; heade ascending, 1 to 3 
Clustered, verticeliate spresding, green se the peduncle; 
the odorless flowers algo green except the whitish hairs, 
eaducous: heade less than 1/2 ineh in diameter when in 
anthesie, the immature ones egain a8 large, solid, yellow. 
ish on the or the inner mass; mature heads were obeerved 
to be nearly 2 inches thick; Puerto Frincess, April, 1911. 

