heartwood; bark smoothish, sreyish white except the testaceous 
inner portion; main branches numrously rebrenched and recurved; 
the ultimate ones lax, suberect; petioles ascending, blades 
pendent, submembrenous and becoming thinly charteceous ; much 
paler green beneath, flat or only the tips @lightly recurved; 
pistillate inflorescence erect, green, overy @derk green, the 
prueh of the stigma lobee much paler green; the crown rather 
widely apresding and evenly rebranches; capsule S-celled, 
with SB seeds, 1 ems long. Puerto Prineese, April, 1911. 
12018. Orophea @ubmaculeta Elms. RM, 8p. Slender 
erect tree, in stony humus covere’ moist soil of dense 
forests slong a Streamlet at 750 feet; terete stem 4 inehss 
thick, 25 feet high, branched from the middle; wooed quite 
hard, odorless and tasteless, whitish on the outside, ore- 
meus. otherwise; perk green and dark or dirty brown mo t~ 
tled, svellanesu® except the smooth epidermis; branches few, 
seattered, @lenier, divaricate, only sparingly rebranched; 
. twigs very Slender, lex, weually dreoping oF subpendant; 
flowers axillery slightly fragrant, 1 to S-clustered, 
descending; pedicels green, provided with gulgineously 
hairy bracte; calyx dull yellow; outer perianth segments 
epresding, pale sulphur, the inner $ erect, éull resens and 
their united tips valvate above the midéle; stamens and 
pistile yellowish brown; immature fruits pendant like 
peans, terete, deep green, more or less sonttricted, & 
inches long, 1/4 ineh eeross; the flowers are soft in 
texture, wilt rether eerly yet persistent, quite ineonspi~ 
- gueus; Puerte Princesa, April, 1911. 
13020, Sehefflera fexworthyi Merr.  Subscanient and 
epiphytic upon trees leaning over the densely wooded ereek 
at 750 feet in moist soil pecked with stenee and gravel; : 
atem terete 1 inch thick, soft, with the usually 9raliaceous 
odor, whitish, pith large and whiter; bark smooth, grayish 
green on the outer Side, green otherwise; wood with a alight 
pepper flavor, only one or twice branched, erect; leaves 
upon aseending, terete and shining green petioles, altere 
natingly scathered, @ull green on the upper waually condu- 
plieate surface, subglaucous green beneath, tips abruptly 
recurved, thickly corisceous; infruteseence in t erminal 
subwhories; the 6 spikes aecending, lex, green, terete, 
at least 1 foot long, unbranched; peduncles divarie=te, 
areen,. beering at the distal ends 4 te five fruits, berries 
lutens, Shining, with e reddish apex and vinosus Stigmas~--~ 
Fruita oboveidly glebote, 3/16 inch seross, lesfiets ho- 
risentelly spreading, Puerte Princesa, April, 1911. 
(15022.  Ivmetis amare Bleo,. Ereet shrub in loose 
humus eovered soil underleid with grevel Stones, along 
a densely wooded er forested creek bed or flat at 750 feet; 
stem few inches thick, subterete, crookec, 10 or more feet 
high, ereokedly branchet from the middle; branches rigid, 
breaking with a snap, Similarly branched; twigs suberect, 
yellewish gray; berk brown end gray mottled, mélleas in the 
middle region, whitish inside, smooth on the outsiie; wood 
hard, heavy, brittle, mellews throughout, bitter, odorless; 
leaves sscending, rotately spreading, decp shining green 
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