16010. Mimuseps latericia Elms fe Op. An ereot 
midéle sized tree or Smaller in rank, in light wooded flats 
of black adobe “011 at £50 feet altitude; stem terete 
though crooked, 10 inches thick, 36 feet hizh, brenched 
above the middle; wood very hard, burly, heavy, oderless 
and alse without teste, the ovter 1/3 whitish, sradually 
changing te the inesrnatus ¢entre] mars; bark funesus, 
deeply checked, te®taceous exeept the epidermis and the 
inner whitish surface which exudes milky tap; main branche 
es peter wltinately numereusly brenched, the twigs 
lax @uberect or ascendinely curved Leaves descending, 
rigidly coriaceous, Shining upon the upper deeper green 
and Strengly folded side; flowers divarieate euhpendent, 
upon green pedicels; the thick calyx densely fulvéue, grecn+ 
ish white on the inner sifie; thin petals white, the pistil 
and Stemen® Guller white; Puerte Princesa, 4“pril, 1911. 
16011, #Vitterie Merrillii Christ. Dense clusters 
eneircling Small trees end hanging Brom the babel portion 
of @ large “bird'a-noat” fern. (Asplenius) 20 feet from 
the moist humus eovered ground nesr 6 densely wooded stron « 
Let at 500 feet; rootstoeks branched, flexible, covered 
with nearly black heire, the hairs on the fine roots ful- 
veus; fronie subeompresacé at the base and bedius brown 
on the outer or exposed side, derk green on both sides, 
coriaceous, ribbon-like twisted towerd the distal ends, 
the Sides usually a trifle eurved upch the ventral or sort 
sige; Puerto Princesa, 4pril, 1911. 
15012. Mitrephore lenoten (Bleo.) Merr. Shrub in 
moist stony 8c11 of desply shaded or wooded ereek banks 
at 500 feet; stem ereoket, terete, 10 feet high, branched 
from below the middle; wood hard, brittle, heavy, melieus, 
odorless ani tasteless; bark finely checked, a@ull gray 
or ater; melleus exeept the epidermis; mein branches 
crood, freely rebranched, the @lenier twigs usuelly hori- 
zontelly Spreading or descending; the chartaceous Leaves 
Similarly 6presding, neerly filet, Shellowly reeurved, the 
Sides  mewhat curved upon the under side, mnin nerves 
yé}ylowish, beneath, depressed on the upper side; flowers 
pendant, opperite the leaves, ederless, gpite rigid, the 
calyx and Short Stealk® Gull yellow; the 6 perianth geg- 
nents ple Sulphur exeeapt the green basal portions, the 
outer 3 spresding, the immer 3 erect ané with inwardly 
curved submited tips whieh are nearly white, the central 
organ® ochraceous; Puerte Princesa, April, 1911. 
16013. Pitonia ganmil11i Merr, Quite large tree 
in moist gravelly seil packed betwecn moss covered bowl- 
fers slong a densely weed orcek at 750 feet; stem ascond- 
ing, tercte, tmiemk 4 foot thick st the bese where it is 
divided inte 2 or@B main ascending trunks, mostly branched 
toward the top or 40 feet from the ground; branches erookede 
ly rebranched, the horizontally spreading or drooping twige 
lex and @imilarly disposed; leaves coriaceous, pendent, 
limp, duller green ebove, neerly flat; infloreseence ter- 
minal, Suberest, flexible, upon pale green Stalke; bude. 
constricted in the middle, that portion below it green, 
above it Beangled ani cremens; flowers deciduons, streni- 
neous, faintly bot with e Seli¢htfxl oder; wooed light, or 
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