19036, Memecylon preslianum fri, ‘Stem 4 inches 
thick, 20 feet leng, extending over a fresh water #tram 
in damp woods at 50 feet and in black rather fertile #oi1; 
branches arising from below the middle, widely spresding; 
the ultimate ones slender lax end drooping or rather des- 
cending; wood quite hard, heavy, brittle, whitish on the 
outeide, the central mase leterioiue, tasteless, slightly 
amoky in oder; leaves coriaceous, horizontal or descending, 
flat or somewhat curved upon the upper a@uli green surface, 
much paler areen beneath, tips elightly reeurveé; infloe- 
reseence lateral mostly, the angular Stalke green, the 
puds caorulens, the stamens and upper side ef the ¢orolm 
segments eyaneus (even the enthers ere of that color); 
style and ovary disk whitish; the nearly éderless flowers 
goon fate to a dirty white; young leaves very pale green; 
fruits whitieh,  Puerte Prineesa, April, 1911s 
19037,  Morinéa berthingii Bla. ne @p. Trailing 
and Sprewling ever thickets in dry well drained 8011 of light 
woods &t BO feet altitude et least; stem terete, brown, 
2/16 inch thick, seatteringly brenched, very flexible; branch- 
lets usuelly in peirs, short, erect, leef beering; lenves 
eseending, Submembrenous, coneeve on the upper darker green 
side; inflorercence termine], green, execeded by the foliage; 
infrvtescence 8 te Selustered, upon lax green peduncles, 
erect or neerly 80, the several seeds #olidiy united into 
an irreguier head 1/2 inch seress end aurantiacus in coler 
when mature; stems few to several from e subligneous root 
erown, at the base 1/4 to 1/4 inch thick only but covered 
with yellowish aray more or leas checked bark with a green 
hypodermis; flowers caducows, short, green exeapt for the 
whitish throes hairs, the reflexed segments forming a que- 
dvenguler whorl in the bud state. Fuerte Princesa, April, 
1911s goat 
13038, Diosceree lusoniensis Schan. & twining peren~ 
nial herb, Sprewling over thickets of light woods of a ary 
fertile open bench at $0 feet altitude or higher; stem 
1/8 inch thick, grecn or atropurpureous tinged, striately 
vidged; peticle® similar, erect; lesves deacending, ¢o- 
riaceous, very dark green ebove when eld, beneath paler; 
spikes axillary, erect, green #6 ere also the bude, the flow- 
ers in anthesis ere sulphur yellows; ‘Puerto Princesa, April, 
191i. 
180394 Pethes philippinensie Egil. Climbing along 
the trunks of large trees in (ry fertile #011 on @ wooded 
inoline st 250 fest; stem flexible, dark green, Slender, 
teuzh; leaves divariestey the petioles with s Sheathed 
eanal along the upper side; blade flat submembranous, 
Similer green on both sides, Slightly descending, filet 
or tips recurved; infruteseencé uxillary, pendent, the 
drupes ‘turning ministus red when ripe while the receptacle 
oe 4ts bracts remain derk green Puerto Princesa, April, 

