13040. Meliele palewanensis Syd» nov. Spec. Upon 
beth side of the older leaves of Rubiaceae number 13027; the 
more or leSs circular colonics dark brown and mere numerously 
infesting the upper side of the blades; the minute globuler 
Spore ceases darker ani Somewhat Shining black; Host;-= Morinda 
Bartlingii Elm, Puerto Princesse, April, 1911. 
15041.  Hypolytrum compactum Nees, Deneve tutte in 
wet adobe Soil of low forested flats at 50 feet; stem an- 
gular, smooth, strictly ereet or aseending, at the base 
Glothed with marcescent sheaths, varying from 1 foot to 
a yerd in heigth, the angles toward the top rounded; leaves 
ascending from the base, strongly recurved, greeved along 
the upper @ide especially so toward th base, dark green, 
& Shede paler beneath; inflorescence erect, congested, the 
bracts of the spikelets avellansous, the stigmas whitish; 
echenes green, subtended by dull brown bracts, flatter on the 
upper Bice than on the other; rootetock stout, branched, 
the Yoot® ample, wiry; Fuerte Princesa, April, 1911. 
19044, <Aagrostigiachys macsoana Vid. Subereet shrub, 
in black leat covered soil of densely forested flats at 
£50 feet; stem gnarly, the upper portion conspleuously 
60, 5 inches thick, 15 feet high or long, crooked, branched 
toward the top; wood moderately herd and brittle, withaut 
odor or taste, the thin sapwood white, otherwise melle us; 
berk Smooth, greenish gray mottled, the middle region 
Similarly yellow; main branches mostly horizontally 
Spreading, crooked ,repeatedly branched; twige quite slenier 
and Llexible, crcoked ant curved, deseending, with suberect 
tipe; leaves charteceous, Shining on the upper flet side, 
Slightly paler heneath, eaceuding end reeurvei, espesially 
teward the tips; flowers mostly sleng the branches, in 
Small Clusters, subtended by yellowish green bracts, odor- 
less, caducous, male the recurved pedicel with the calyx 
dingy white, the central orgene purer white; Puerte 
Princesa, April, 1911. 
13045 Fkeus taynbentis Fim, Climbing rather large 
trees in rich moist forested flata at 260 feet; stem sube 
terete, 2 inches thiek, bendeble, branched at the top only; 
branches numerously rebranch@a and forming interlaced masses, 
grayish white, the subflexible twigs ascendingly curved; 
wood Soft, with large porés,. the outer one helf @nhgy or 
yellowish white, the balance dull inearnatus, edorless and 
tasteless; bark reddish beneath the dull ardieeus or 
blackish @mocthish epidermis, the whitish inner surface con- 
teins e flow of latex; leaves horisental or deseending, 
Ghartaceous, shiny deep green on the upper shallowly folded 
Surface, wm much lighter green beneath, the stout veins benexth 
yellowish, the petiole tesiseeous, tips strongly recurved; 
figs Solitary or in pairs, in the leaf axils or in their 
Sears, upon greanish reeurved peduncles, ruber, the syco- 
nium yellow, 80 elso the flowers with only a tinge ef red, 
Subglobose or globose and with ends somewhat flattened, 3/8 
inch in diameters, Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
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