branches long, sprawling and drooping, numerously rebranched, 
tough, ecastaneous, the ultimate oner green; leaves horizontal 
or descending, shallowly folded on the upper side, duller 
beneath, the margine coarsely wavy, thinly chartaceous or 
eoriseeous, mek occasionally recurved by a recurved inflores- 
eent hook; pedicels bracts and calyx similarly green; the 
6 equal segments sulphureous; etamen tips purple, otherwise 
eLlow; ovaries green, the style and stigma whitish; fruit 
flavus,;, @llifieoid, 1/2 ineh long, with a single brownish 
black seed. Puerto Princess, April, 1911. 
12943, Daemonereps margeritae palawanicues Bece. n. var. 
A vather coarse looping climber in stream depressions of 
dense woode st 250 feet: old stem 1 inch thick, smooth and 
glaucous green, the leaf besring portion 2 inches thick; 
Leaves alternate, 1 foot apart, 10 feet long or more and tere 
minating into 2 hooked rachis again ae lene; petiole proper 
1 1/2 foot long, yellowish green, sping, flattened especially 
the upper side; Leaflets recurved, submembranous, pleasing 
green on both sides; the shoulder of the petiole and glaucous 
green sheath densely beset with flattened spines 1/2 to 11/2 
inches long, and arrsaged in transverse rows; pictillate 
inflorescence lesf opposed, usually several, the upper ones 
in anthesis, the lower ones in fruit, ascending or suberect, 
upon 9 short epiny etalk; bracts 7 10 inches long, fusiform, 
wx extenuated into 2 6 ineh long point, the outer sheath 
gray and spinescent,the inner ones yellowish and smooth, 
the (etalks) pedicels and flowers similar in color, and 
covered with an ochraceous scurfy powder, persistently ineluded 
by the sheathe and numerously inhabited by emall black antes, 
the sheaths only bursting by the development of the fruit 
and yet persistent; fruiting etalke gareen and emooth, nuts 
fully 1/2 inch in dismeter, globose, green except the dark 
brown persistent stigme and lighter brown bract merging; 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12944, Artocarpus psaloeneis “1m. A large tree, in 
fertile well drained humus covered soil of densely wood 
slopes at 250 feet; stem terete, wadded toward the base, 
$0 feet high, branched toward the top; wood hard, slightly 
bitter, the outer 2 inches maple white, the balance between 
olivaceous and flavovireus, quite hard, the change of colors 
is very abrupt; bark checked, brown, se2ling in small plates, 
the inner side white and with milky sap, otherwise Lateri-« 
elous: main branches widely spreading and crooked, ultimately 
numerously rebranched, twigs flexible and with green suberect 
tipe; leaves ascending or horizontal, thinly coriaceous or 
subchartaceous, flat or shallowly folded upon the upper deeper 
green gurfsce; infloreseence fulvous brown, solitary or in 
pairs from the leaf exile, the erect stalke of the some 
color; Puerto Princess, April, 1911. 
12948, Daemonorops gracilis Beece. n. ap. A very 
fine low scandent or sprawling rettan in forested fiats of 
adobe soil at 250 feet; old stem 1/3 inch thick or even 
thinner toward the ground, very flexible, terete and green- 
ish on the exposed portions otherwise yellowish, the leaf 
bearing portion 1 ineh thick; sheaths densely covered with 
dull brown fiattened spines 1 inch in length, otherwise 
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