12953, inteia bijuga (Colebr.) Ktze, Rather small 
trees in moist fertile soil of woods at about 50 feet alti- 
tude, stem 1 foot thick, terete, nearly straight, branched 
from above the middle; wood only moderately hard, the outer — 
one half white the central sess fulvue to olivaceous, odorless 
slightly bitter; berk yellowish gray and bletehed, roughened 
with brown colored lenticels, green bmeath the epidermis, 
otherwise whitish; brenches crookedly rebranched, the 
ultimate ones flexible and suberect; leaves coriaceous, 
equally green on both sides, curved upon the under side; 
inflorese nee erect, green, Bx emcept the white banner, 
reddish or inearnatus colored filaments stigms and upper 
portion of the otherwise creenish style; Puerto Princess, 
April, 1911. ! 
12954, Cynometra bijuga Span, Medium sized tree 
in moist gravelly soil along a densely wooded streamlet 
at 50 feet; stem 11/2 foot thick, 35 feet high or higher, 
with main branches from the middle; wood hard, heavy snd 
tough, without taste or odor, the outer portion sappy and 
eradually changing to the nearly roseus red centre] mass; 
park thick, blotched, roughened with lenticele or excrese 
eences, otherwise dark latericious especially the inner 
portion; branches spreading, ultimately repeatedly rebranched; 
Leaflets ascending, usually in poire or with an extra much 
reduced Leaflet near the vase of the petiole, coriaceous, — 
folded upon the upper much darker but shining green surface, 
fruite green or when 014 becoming avellaneous, hard, rugose, 
straight on the upper side, creased on the lower, eliongated 
ekkkpu elliptish in outline, 2 inches long, 1 ineh thick 
across the middle, solitary in the leaf axils or few clustered, 
hanging upen 1 inch leng brown pedicels; Fuerto Princess, 
April, i911. 
12955, Cleistanthus paeudecanescens “Lm. A medium 
gized tree in somewhat sandy soil of densely wooded stream 
banks at 50 feet altitude; stem 1 foot thick, 30 feet high, 
branched from the middle; wood hard, heavy, burly, odorless 
and tasteless, only the thin sapwood whitish, otherwise lead- 
peneil red or dull reseous; bark gray and brown mottled, 
roughened with blunt exerescences, light stropurpureous 
except the epidermis, the main branches ultimately numerovusly 
rebranched, the lax twigs mostly deseending, Leaves am 
horizental or descending, flat exeept the recurved spices; 
subchartaceous dark shining green above, ecanescently gray- 
ish green beneath; inflorescence odorless, in dense axillary 
glomerules, yellowish greén except the yellow anthers; 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. — 
12956, Meus strangularis 41m. n. ¢p- Bpiphytice at 
first but developing above into large tree-like branches. 
and below into well interlaced messes cleaving to its already 
dead former support; main branches + foot thiek, secending, 
ultimately numerously branched and widely dispersed; twigs 
tough, suberect: leaves horizontal or deseending, coriaceous 
shining deep green above, much paler beneath eurvinely 
folded on the upper side, the veins yellowish white; fics 
usually solitary, from the leaf axils below the foliage, 
descending, sessile, short ellipsoid, 3/4 inch long, subtended 
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