16049. Melietus philippinensis Muell. Arg. Ereet 
ehrub-like tree in red 8011 evorlying grevel beds slong the 
river banks at 500 feet; stem subterete, 3 inches thick, 
10 to 15 feet high, branched from below tne middle; wooed 
rether heavy, hard, dingy white, odorless end tasteless; 
bark smooth and gray whiti#h, with e esreen hypotermis, 
the inner region sappy white; mein brenche® ascending, 
repeatedly branched; twige quite rigid, ascendingly curved, 
breaking with a @nap; petioles ascending, fulvous; blades 
curved gamed. upon the upper side, subglauceus green beneath, 
horizontal or descending, cherteceous; inflorescence ter~ 
minel or lateral, erset, yellowish green, @lightly fragrant, 
soft in texture, the filaments more white ani anthers more 
yellow; Puerto Prineeta, April, 1911. 
13050, Fugenia mindoroeneis CC, 5, Robs A middle 
Sized tree or Smaller in rank, Standing on woeded river 
banke in red ret surface Gcil with ae sheet of gravel 
stones underneath; trunk subterete, 1 1/2 feot thick, some- 
whet leaning over the river bed ite# main brenches Trou 
the middle, 25 feet high: wood herd, havy, burly, the 
thin sapwood dingy yellowish white, otherwise latericious 
in *olor; bark of the same reddish brown, except the Smooth- 
ish(yliowish grey epiiermis which sometimes peels in thin 
flei-or rether Smooth plates; mein branches epresding, 
‘ profusely rebranched; the twigs @lender and lax, ho- 
rigontal or pendent; leaves similarly erranged, néerly 
flat, tips reeurved, much deeper and duller green on the 
upper surfece; infruteacence green; the ripe fruits 
nearly Zlohope and only Slightly oblique, elwaye lees than 
1/2 ineh, vinosus, inflereseence subereet, termine] alweys, 
all ite Bielks green, the caly= very pale green, style 
and anthers nearly ef the Same color, Filaments pure 
white, very slightly fraarant; Puerto Princesse, April, 
19lle 
16052, Peyohotrin iwehigenei® Fim, ms @p. A Line 
tree-trunk ¢limhber in good moist 8c11 ef dense forests 
at 250 feet; stems subligneous, the size and shepe of on 
ordinary lead-pencil, very flexible, greenish or brownish _ 
Gleeving lightly to ite support, few branched 15 feet from 
the ground; branches elenéer, only sparingly rebranched, 
eurved, somewhat drooping ané trkek with erect tips; leaves 
descending moetiy, thinly coriaceous, flat, derk velvety 
ereen above, much, paler green beneath, with slightly 
recurved apices; inflorescence terminal, erect, dark green 
except the pale green or greenish white odorless flowers; 
Puerto Princeta, April, 1911. 
18053. Cleistenthus peendocanescens Fim, Rather 
@mnli tree in dry leaf covered soil°of light wooded flate 
eat 250 feet altitude; stem 6 inches thick, terete, in 
thisinstance 3 from the same base, 20 feet or higher; 
its main brenehes from the middle and widely Spreading, 
ultimately numerously rebranched; wood odorless end taste~- 
less, gradually changing from the thin whitish outer side 
to the greater latericious central meses, quite hard; bark 
caetaneous exeept the lenticelled reughened blotched outer 
Side; leaves cescending, curved upon the upper smooth 
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