12949. Ophiorrhiza pulgarensis “im. n. ep. fonewh at 
gueevlent herbs in moiet soil of loose moss covered rocks 
near 2 strewn at 1500 feet, or becoming dwarfed plants in 
ecompset soil on forested ridges: stem 1 or more from the 
game root, terete, green, ascending, oceasionally branched 
from below the middle but usually toward the top, varying 
from a few inches to a few feet high; leaves soft membranous, 
horizontally spreading, dark velvety green above, glaucous 
green benesth; inflorescence pale green except the odorless 
pure white flowers, circinately branched and recurved; cap- 
sulees much compressed, erect, dehiscing along the top; 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12950, Gareinia bicolorata Elm. n. sp. Small tree, 
in moist stony soil of steep forest slopes at 1750 feet; 
stem terete & inchee thick, 20 feet high, mainly branched 
toward the top and forming 4 flat crown;wood quite soft, 
yellowish throughout, odorless and without taste; bark 
roughened with very blunt exerescences, light yellow except 
the dull brown epidermis and with 2 similar juice; main 
branches divaricate, repeatedly rebranched, the twigs rather 
short and rigid; leavee suberect, numerous, coriaceous, 
flat, or only the tips recurved, much paler green beneath; 
inflorescence densely cluetered along the branchlets beneath 
the foliage; the flowers rigid, odorless, saducous, their 
stalks or pedicels green, the apiesl and outer portion of the 
& tue peftianth segments bright cherry red even in the bud 
state, giving the branchlets a beautiful appearance; the 
inner 4 segments rotately spreading and recurved in anthesis, 
the upper side citrinous yellow; stamens promiscuously seate 
tered in s quadrengular mags, the stamens or the anthers 
proper atropurpureous, otherwise whitim. Puerto Princesa, 
12951.  Diospyros maritima bim, Slender erect tree 
in humus covered adobe flats of forests at 250 feet: stem 
6 inches thick, terete, 25 feet high, branched at the top 
only; wood rathers soft, turning citrinous upon being 
exposed, nearly oderlese and tasteless; branches slender, 
divariecate, only sparingly rebranched, the twigs ascending; 
leaves rigidly eorisaeous, nearly flat, dakker green above; 
fruite clustered along the slender branchlets, flavus #hen 
fully ripe, flatly globose, 3/4 inch across, subtended by 
the 4 rigid but otherwise emooth yellowish green calyx; 
Puerto Frincesa, April, 1911. 
12952. Diechidia hirsute Yall, Climbing slong the - 
branchlets of shrubs in dense woods at 50 feet altitude; 
stem green, filiform, flexible, repeatedly branched, full 
of milky sap; leaves spreading in 211 directions, rough 
papilloge on both sides, thick and rigid, slightly paler 
beneath; inflorescence upon sxillary descending spikes 
which are usually unbranched; flowers usually only one, 
deciduous, much bulged st the base, the pedicel, calyx 
and tipe of the corolla ochraceous, otherwise the corolla 
light atropurpureous, the central floral organs yellowish 
white; pods subterete, pendant, 2 to 3 inehes long, more 
tapering toward the apex; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
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