by one or more email dwarfed green bracta;when fully mature 
soft and pale green or yellowish green with darker green 
papillae, flowers yellowish brewn; umbilicus smooth and 
minute; ; wood finely ringed, rather brittle, dingy or yellow- 
ish white, without odor or taste; bark grayieh white, emooth- 
ish, the inner side sappy white and with scarcely any latex; 
Puerto Prineess, April, 1911. 
12957, ixora intermedia “lm. mn. sp. Slender erect 
tree in stony soil of deage woods slong 9 dry stream bed at 
50 feet; stem subterete, 3 inches thick, 20 feet high, 
erooked, branched from below the middle; wood heard and 
heavy, odorless and tasteless, dinzy yellowish white, the 
outer portion lichter than the darker centre] mess; bark 
testsaceous except the nearly smooth yellowish gray epidermia; 
branches divaricately spreading; slender, freely revreanch ed; 
infrutescemee terminal always, the few green strict peduncles 
divaricately spreading; fruite pale white, xm sukek subslobese 
or obscurely compressed, 3/8 inch thick, with 2 stone-like 
seeds, ultimately turning red, calyx greenieh but when in 
flower light pink: leaves eubecoriaceous lighter green beneath, 
nearly flat, horizontally spreading; Puerto Princesa, April, 
1911. 
_ 120688. Schizestsechyum longispiculatum Kure, Guite 
amall clusters in good compact somewhat clayey soil of wooded 
benches at 100 feet; stem one or two teummitxy dozen, usually 
agcending and more or less epresding and reclining upon the 
other vegetation, the basal Z or 3 metera considerably con- 
strieted and no more than 1/2 ineh thick while the balace 
of 15 to 26 feet is 1 te 11/2 inchee thick, terete, leaf 
bearing from below the middle; the basal portion very rigid, 
thick, with joints & inches apart; the joints of the upper 
portion 1 meter apart, bendable and quite easily breaking; 
branchlets in alternating clusters, the longer ones © feet 
long or even &, only sparingly rebranched, the shorter ones 
unbranched, horizontal or descending; leeflete similarly 
gpreading, flat, with strongly recurved tips, similar green 
on both sides, chartaceous; inflorescence slways terminal, 
gracefully reeurved, only the larger ones with few lateral 
branches toward the base; apikelete oppositely aire clustered 
(it should be elternatingly) green, tarete, exeevt the dull 
straw brown outer bracts: sheath st least 6 inches long, 
abruptly constricted into = sharply pointed tip one half 
as long; Fuerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12959, Seirrhia luzonensis P. Henn, Upon the older 
leaves of Samboo number 12956; circular spots dark brown, 
equally visible from both sides, causing dull yellow diseased 
leaf portions; Fuerte Princesa, April, 1911. (Hosti- 
Schizostachyum longispiculatum Kura). 
12966, Parinearius griffithianum Benth. A rather 
large tree in fertile dense woods at 250 feet; stem terete, 
2 feet thick, 60 feet high or less, straight, branched above 
the middle; wood quite hard and heavy, the sapwood 2 inches 
thick and whitish, the balance dull rose red, the change 

