diverse in size, upon ascending yellowish green petioles; 
blades horizontal mostly, flat, darker green above; infrutes- 
eence upon pele green sscending green peduncles, ususlly 
solitsry; the compreseed and roundly S-angled pode or eap- 
sules covered with a sulphur powéer, and light green appen- 
dages; the twigs contain hispid hairs somewhat stinging in 
affect; the green smooth perianth of the ovary early falling; 
the 3 or 4 recurved stigmas nearly sulphur; some of the 
larger leaves ere nearly 2 feet long. Puerto Princera, 
April, 1911. 
129868, Cleistanthus decipiens C, B. Reb. Shrub in 
very fertile soil covered with foliage in a densely wood 
ereek bottom at 250 feet; stemea few from the same cluster, 
ageending or widely spreading, few inches thick, terete, 
165 feet long, branched from below the middle; weed quite 
hard and heavy, the outeide aappy white, the erester central 
mags duljl inesrnatus, without odor or taste: branchlets 
laxly spreading; bark thin, yellowich brown, more or less 
winutely checked, castaneuse except the epidermis; lesvres 
thinly coriaceous flat, deep green above, much paler beneath, 
horizontal or descending; young fruite selitary in the leaf 
axile, subtended by dry brown scales, the capsule erect, 
shining snd very pale green, roundly 3-lobed, Less than 1/2 
inch across, 3-cellied, 1 to 2 evulate in each; Puerto 
Princess, April, 1911. 
12990, Salacia subsecandens lm. n. ep. A tree 
climber in moist fertile goil of wooded flate along 9 creek 
at 250 feet: stem eubterel or wadded, 1 ineh thick, quite 
rigid, numerously branched; wood porous, odorless and taste- 
less, the outside whitish, the inner latericious;more or 
less divided into radial sections; bark smooth, grayish, 
eastaneous beneath the epidermis; branches numerous, strongly 
recurved and forming tangled messes more or less hanging 
from ite support; leeves in 911 shapes or positions, char- 
taceous, folded upon the upper greener and esublucid surface; 
flowere erect, upon brownish black clustered tubercles, 
either in the leaf axile or in their fallen axile; pedicels 
and perienth light bedius; ovary ochraceus, odorless; 
Puerto Princees, April, 191i. 
12991. Paychotrie repens ®lm. n. sp, A perennial 
prostrate gwx creeper in very moist good densely humus 
covered soil of deep woods slong = creek flat at 250 feet; 
stem 1/4 inch thick, terete, dark green, flexible, creeping 
below the humus snd only sparingly branched, taking roote 
at the point of branching, the distsl ends ascending and 
leaf bearing; branches short and erect, or longer and aseend- 
ing, leafy; roots blackish, fibrously branched, subligneous; 
leaves horizontal or aseending from the base, shallowly 
recurved, coriaceous, deep green above with the veins marked 
by darker green regione, much paler green beneath; inflores- 
cence terminal, an ineh leng, the short branches and calyx 
green, usually descendingly curved; buds testaceous; odorless 
flowers pendant, white and tinged with testaceous brown, 
the 5 segments strongly recurved, gradually widening from 
the base to the throat, 1/3 or 3/6 inch long, very easily 
falling, the etamens with the throat heirs of the same 
color, ovary whitish, atyle and stigma: green; Puerto 
Princesa, April, 1911. 

