in color gradually blending; without odor or taste; brenches 
erooked, spreading; the twigs erect, numerous, short, bvend- 
able; Leaves descending, folded upon the upper trifle darker 
green surface, subchartaceous; infrutescence erect, profuse, 
pale green, the young fruits fusiform 3/4 inch long, terete 
hard; 2-seeded or at least 2-celled, the inner side of the 
eells are hairy; bark thick, ¢rayieh white, smoothieh or 
scaling in thin smooth pletes, latericioua beneath the epi- 
dermis; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12961.  Rungia diveresiformie Nees, Perennial herds 
in moiet more or less sandy Orgravelly soil in densely 
shaded places slong streame or in their flate at 250, feet; 
gteme ueually few from the base which is usually decumbent 
and reoted at intervals, terete dark, quite rigid, lease than 
1/3 ineh thick, 1 foot to 1 yard in height, only sparingly 
branched above the base; lesves thinly coriaceous, horizontal 
ardescending, flat, dark green above except the regions 
of the veins which ie glaucous green, much paler green 
beneath; inflorescence woft, aweending, few branched, the 
bracts subtending the flowers arranzced slong the outer side; 
breete pale green, flat, with hyaline margins, ecslyx psler 
green; corolla aseending, eaducoue, straight 1/2 inch long, 
compressed, white except the atropurpureosusly spotted upper 
portion ond the smutthk enther connectives; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 
12962, Bauhinia subglabra Merr. Seandent shrub 
upon small or medium sized trees in a fertile but stony 
wooded flat at 250 feet; stem at least 3 inches thick, sub- 
terete and xke ridged and worm-like, heavy, very flexible, 
very numerously branched at the top; wood porous, divided 
into several irreguhar masses, the sapwood whitich, the 
central maes of the bundles teetaceous, slightly sweet, 
exuding clear cum, odorless: bark testsaceous except the 
grayish white checked and sealing wkp epidermis, more or 
Less extended about the woody bundle; branches terete, 
numerous, forming densely interlsced masses, the twige 
relatively short and subverect, Leaves dese ending , thinly 
coriaceous, subglaucouse green beneath, folded upon the 
upper side; inflorescences erect, heavy; calyx flavovireus 
especially on the upper side; petals pure white but soon 
turning flavus; filaments white, 5 stamens fertile; pistil 
whitish except the green atigma; flowere slightly fregrant; 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12963, Vatiea obtusifolia im, n. sp. Medium sized 
tree in a densely wooded flat at 250 feet, of good soil: 
stem 1 foot thick, terete and straight, 35 feet high at 
least, branched at the top only; wood hard, heavy, odorless 
and tasteless, the outer 1/3 dingy white, the inner 2/3 
nearly avellanus; mein branehes occasionally srising from 
near the middle but ereet, numerously branched toward the 
top only; twigs very numerous, erect, forming dente bushes; 
leaves also copious, aseending, flat, rigidly coriaceous, 
much paler or lighter green beneath; inflorescence erect, 
dirty yellowish green except the pure white imbriestely 
twisted corolla @nd the more yellow centre] organs; buds 
eremeus; flowers faintly but sweetly fragrant; the sap- 
of the wood eclesr but somewhat sticky; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 

