15059... MelaStoma obovulutum Jack. Erect or suberect 
Shrub, in red well drained soil of lightly wooded benches 
interspersed with cogon at 250 feet; stem 3 inches thick, 
terete, crooked, 15 feet high, branched from below the 
middle; main branches ascending, gradually recurved, numerously 
rebranched, the ultimate ones nearly horizontal; wood Sappy 
white, Soft, heavy, without odor or taste; bark testaceous 
except the smooth avellaneous surface; leaves descending 
recurved, Shallowly folded above paler green beneath; flowers 
odorless, Suberect, terminally 1 to 3 clustered; braets 
yellowish, caducous; the 7 calyx segments strongly reflexed, 
greenish white, also catucous; flowers in anthesis at least 
$ inches across, yery showy and pretty; the deep lilac 
petals rotately Spreading when in bloom, after which they 
imbricately roll themselves upon one another in a bud-shaped 
manner; the upper anthers deep incarnatus, the lower pale 
lilacinus; horns and the upper side of the. basal portion 
of the filaments citrinus, the upper filaments lilac; style 
Similar in color except the dark green stigma; . Puerto 
Princesa, April, 1911. . 
16060.. Memecylon.terminaliflora Elm, nm, Sp. ax 
Suberect undershrub in moist fertile humus covered soil of 
dense forests at 750 feet, on the trail to. Napsan; stem 
10 feet high, 1 inch thick, terete, branched from. below 
the middle; wood latericious except the very thin lighter 
brown Sapwood, odorless and tasteless, moderately solid; 
bark Smooth greenish to yellowish gray, or brown, very 
thin; main branches widely Spreading and curved, sparingly 
rebranched, the twigs very Slender and drooping, the 
terminal green portion winged; leaves horizontal, sub- 
chartaceous, much lighter green beneath, flat with tips 
Feourved, inflorescence odorless, descending, all the 
Stalks green, the calyx Stramineous; corolla segments 
Stamens (including the backs of the anthers) cyaneous; 
Styles and pedicels also stramineous; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 
13061... Hallieracanths pulgarensis Eims.ns, Bp. A 
Suberect biennial herb, in moist fertile deeply humus covered 
®oli of dense forests at 750 feet, on the trail to Napsan; 
Stem 1/3 inch thick, dark green, terete, nodose, reclining 
and taking root at the basal joints, imbranched, a yard 
long or longer, the upper portion suberect and more or less 
zigzag; leaves horizontally spreading, flat, membranous, 
dark green above, much paler So beneath; inflorescence 
axillary and leaf opposed, erect, the stalks and bracts — 
dark green, the calyx paler green; corolla erect, 3/4 inch 
iong, tubularly constricted below the middle, saccate 
ot it, white or ereamy white; . Puerto Princesa, april, 
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