12968. Antirrhoes livida Slim mn. 8p. Shrub, in good 
moist soil with a gravelly subsoil in humid woods or forests 
along the river at 250 feet; stan 3 inches thick, 10 to 15 
feet high, with the ascending main branches arising from 
below the middle: wood solid, hard, nearly creaeus, odorless, 
pitterieh, eaesius, sexling in very thin plates, or smooth, 
thin with a green hypodermis; main branches ultimately 
numerously rebranched, widely apreading, the euberedt twigs 
Lex; leaves clustered, rotately epresding, diverse in site, 
soft membranous, deeper green above, the veins beneath 
whitioh, tips recurved, otherwise flat or nearly so; inflo- 
rescence terminal, upon green somewhat recurved peduncl es; 
calyx pale green; corolie tubular, ochraceous, 1/2 inch long; 
anthers deeper yellow; mature fruit shining lividus juicy, 
angular, 3/4 inch long. Fuerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
12969. Caesalpinia sappan minutiflora lm, n. var. 
Seandent and sprawling over the river bank woods at £50 
feet in red stony soil; stem 2 inches thick, branched occa- 
sionally, terete, quite rigid, wxekr erooked: wood distinctly 
bitter, odorless, with a large nearly black pith, the outer 
ene half dingy yellowish white, the balance tLestaceous, 
porous and soft: berk eremeus, with 4 green hypedermis, the 
central retion testaceous, the inner side whitish; atema 
with thick cone-like excrescences terminated by short but 
gharp spines; branches long, spinescent; leaves aLternatingly 
scattered, aecending, or horizontal and somewhat recurved; 
reechia at first green but turning brown or nearly black with 
age, @piny sleng the nether side; pinnae ascending and 
recurveé; pinnules coriaceous, flat, yellowish green benesth, 
shining deep green above; inflorescence terminal, erect, the 
Slightly fragrant flowers caducous; buds badius; petals 
citrinus, the banner purplish streaked on the ventral side; 
anthers of the seme color; the upper free portion of the 
filaments greenish, the hairy basal portion roseus; pods 
ei very rigid, leather brown; Puerto Frincess, April, 
1911. 
L2e70. Vavaen Hartneyi Seen. Suberect tree in wet 
stone-gravelly soil of wooded river banks at 250 feet; stem 
1 foot thick, extending somewhat over the river bed, 35 
feet high, with ite main branches from below the middle, 
the large crooked branches ultimately numerously rebranched; 
twigs forming dense messes, ascendingly eurved; leaves: 
@vowded at the ends, rotately spreading, submewbranous, 
shining bright green on the upper usually concave surface, 
‘paler beneath, the old one really deep green above, and 
 goriaccous; inflorescence axillary, erect, the stalke bracte 
and ealyx green; petale rigid, cremeus or rather white at 
first and turning melleus; stawines] tube blackish purple 
below the middle, whitish sbove; anthers and stigma eitrie 
nous; style whitish ovary yellowish; flowers only slightly 
odorous, not agreeable nor distinctly otherwise; wood hard, 
heavy, burly, tasteless, with a areenish odor, murky white 
‘en the outside, brownish toward the center; bark testaceous, 
er grayish, smooth or lenticelled, griseus except the epl- 
dermia: quite thick; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 

