greenish, subpersistent; leaves eseending and recurved, 
slterneting every 3 to § inehes, 5 feet long and termine ting 
into a dengling & feet long hooked rechis; petiole 8 inches 
long, yellowieh green, subcomprersed, epiny, ite bese thick- 
ened end also spinescent, especislly slong the mergins 
“whose spinee ere more numerous and twice es long; inirutes- 
eence subaxilleary, recurved upon the short pedunele, 411 
the etalke smooth and screen, 1 foot long, finely branched, 
only the flettened peduncle spine; fruits dark green, short 
alpineaia, lege than 1/2 inen long. Puerto Prineesa, April, 
1911. 
12946. Helieia ertocarpoides lm. n. sp. Slender 
erect tree-like shrub, on well drained fertile soil of a 
foreated ridge at 2000 feet; stem 3 inehes thick, more or 
dese erooked, unbrenched, 15 feet high, terete; wood 
moderately soft, dingy white, with conspiesous redial 
lines, odorless snd tasteless; bark dull dirty brown, smooth 
or only minutely checked, issbellinus except the epidermis; 
leaves alternately crowded st the top; petiole green, terete, 
rigid, very thick at the base; bledee chartaceous, chiefly 
horizoutally spreading, s yerd long, the segments usually 
descending end their sides twisted, tips recurved, 
otterwise nesrly flet, peler green beneste, jeaving large 
sears after falling inflorescence solitary or in smell 
banehes, widely scatteres slong the stem, divaricate, sverag- 
ing 6 inehes long; the eligbhtly fragrant flowers equally 
Gigtribated on all sides, deciduous, coming to maturity 
from bsse to apex, the bude rechia end the perianth flavus, 
the sxziz style whitieh, the stigme greenish. Puerto 
Prineesea, April, 1911. 
12947. Litses @ineresa Blm. ns. ep. Slender erect 
siirub-like tree in well dreined humsae covered soil of a 
forested ridge at 2000 feet; etem terete, crooked, 4 inches 
thiek, 20 feet high, branched from sbove the middle; wood 
moderately herd or tough, odorless end tastelese, yellowi sh 
but greduelly changing to a rather deep yellow eenter, light; 
bark iatericius beneath the grayish brown, and more or lees 
mottled ep'dermis whieh ie smooth; mein branches spreading, 
and finely rebranchec, the ultimate ones fulvous; blades 
horizontal or descending, flet, subcoriacecus, dark green 
above, much lighter green beneath; bude yellowish green, 
flowers more yellow, odorless and deaiduoge. Puerto 
Prineese, April, 1911. 
1£946. Vernonie pulgerensie lm. n. ep. Seandent 
upon smell trees on eieep rocky soil of forests sat 2000 
feet; stem terete, 1 ineh thick, very flexible and sub- 
hervbeceons; the outer wood greenish end redislly marked, 
the inner yellowieh, with e lerge pith, odorless, sweetish ; 
bark yellowish and with a green hypodinum; more or less 
roughened with bla:t exerescences; branches long, freely 
rebrenched, very deep green, the free ends drooping; lesves 
sscending, limp, very deep subvelvety green above, psler 
beneath , nearly fist exeept the reeurved tips; infrates- 
eenece termine] from the rether ehort branechlete, erect. 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 

