12929, Aletonia macrophylis Yall. A rather large 
tree in fertile or alluvial soil of the lwahig wooded fiste 
at 280 feet altitude; stem 2 feet thick, 40 feet high, 
terete, not straight, branched from above the middle; wood 
moderately soft, the outer one half sappy white, the central 
welleus, bitterish, odorless; bark thick, erecked near the 
pase and yellowish, otherwise grayish and amooth, yellow 
beneath the epidermis, the inner side whitish; branches 
spreading, repeatedly branched, forming en elongated; crown; 
twige suberect, green, relatively short; leaves wukeberin 
subchorisceous, pendant,very lucid and deep green above, 
much paler beneath, shallowly folded upon the upper side, 
the veine whitish especially from the upper surface; infru- 
teseence hanging, terminal, the stalke zuxx wiry snd pale 
er yellowish green; pode similar in color, terete, 10 inches 
long, terning dry and brown after dehieacence; seeds thin 
prown with similarly colored hairy corms: +t beth ends; 
Fuerte Frineess, April, 19]. 
12931. Xenthophyllum palewenensis Hlm. nm. 8p. 
Sreet ehrub or tree-like, in shrubberies of the cogon forme 
ation at 800 feet on the trail to Napsen; etem 4 inches 
thick, 1 to 16 feet high, terete, branched from below the 
middle, wood moderately soft, whitish, odorless and taste 
less, or slightly bitter; bark emoothish, green beneath 
the yellowish grey epidermis; main branches ascending, 
rather Long, repeatedly branched, greenish gray except the 
yellowieh excrescencer; brenchlets horizontal or descending, 
4ull green; Leaves pendant, alternate, subscharteceous, pleas- 
ing green above, yellowieh green peneath, shallowly curved 
upon the upper side; inflorescence terminal, few branches 
from near the base, the ascending spikes melleus; oalyx 
ochraceous; corolla buds light roseus, impricate ae are also 
the calyx segments; banner gegments 2 ,eract from the middle, 
whitish below the middle, bright yellow’ ‘mm blotened on 
the middle inner side; the 2 wings enfolding the entire 
keel; stamens &, freel, white except the pale yellow anthers, 
evary rugose, fulvous pubescent, style and stigma whitieh, 
the former whitish pubescent, the later minute and terminal ; 
flowers divaricate, rigid, odorless and eaduecous; Fuerto 
Princeeg, May, . 1911. 
12932. Memecylon preslianum Tria, Slender tree in 
rich soil of humid forests at 750 feet on the trail to 
Wapsan; stem 65 inches thick, 36 feet high, terete, crooked, 
branch mainly toward the top; wood rather hard or goft with 
out odor or taste, melleus on the outside neerly fulvous — 
toward the center; bark relatively thin, minutely checked, 
grayish on the outside, otherwise latericious; branches 
slender, freely rebranched, divariestely epreading, the 
®lender lax twigs deseending ,the leaf bearing portion sreen 
and angular; lesves horizontal, nearly fiat, lucid on both 
sides, deep green on the upper side; infrutwse ence lateral, 
divarieately epreading, 911 the branchlets deep green and 
angular; fruite globose, always less than 1/2 inch in 
diameter, wim stramineous, ultimately violaceous; seed amooth, 
brown, solitary; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
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