15062. Nephelium lappaceum Tinmn,  WMiddle sized tree 
in very fertile humus covered soil of humid forests at 750 
feet in or on the trail to Napsan; stem 10 inchs thick, 
terete but crooked, 55 feet high, its main branches arising 
from near the middle; main branches ultimately numerously 
rebranched forming a dense umbrella-like crown; wood 
moderately @oft yet tough, white, odorless and tasteless; 
bark roughened with lenticels blotched on the yellowish 
gray Surface, otherwise latericious; leaves ascending, 
alternating, ample; leaflets thinly coriaceous, ascending 
or horizontal, curvingly folded upon the upper darker green 
surface; inflorescence terminal, terete, profusely branched, 
fulvous green, very lax, the buds pale green, the filaments 
whitish, the anthers yellowish; flowers caducous and odor- 
less; Puerto Princefa, March, 1911. ' 
18065. Derris palawanensis Elm, n. 8p. <A lofty 
tree climber in dense humid and fertile forests at 750 on 
the trail to Napsan; stem Subterete or irregularly wadded, 
4 inches thick, bendable, turning about the tree trunks, 
branched all along above the middle; wood soft, very porous, 
dingy white or reddish tinged toward the eenter without 
odor or taste; bark thick, grayish brown, Smooth, latericious 
except the epidermis, freely bleeding with a dark purpureous 
Sap; main branches divaricate, freely rebranched, sprawling 
over the tops of forest trees, and hanging in masses from 
the limbs of their support; leaves horizontally spreading, 
the leaflets deeply conduplicate on the upper Blightly deeper 
green Surface, Submembranous, the sides wavy toward the 
recurved apex; infloreseence divaricate or aScending from 
the leaf axils mainly, heavy, profuse, the stalke greenish, 
the pedicels and calyx yellowish, the deciduow corolla 
Staxeus flavous, the stamens of the Same color, ovary green, 
Style whitish, Stigma dark green; flowers nearly odorless, 
This is very common in the forests, the flowers of only 
Short duration in which time mwam swam swarms of insects 
feed on them; Puerto Princesa, april, 1911. 
13064. Gardenia glutinosea Zoll. Middle sized tree 
in humid fertile forests at 750 feet on the trail to Napsan; 
Stem Subterete, nearly 2 feet thick, Somewhat crooked, 40 
feet high, branched toward the top mainly; wood moderately 
hard, without odor or taste, stramineous white throughout, 
bark Smooth, yellowish gray on the outside, dull cremenus 
otherwise, with a green hypodermis; main branchs spreading, 
numerously rebranched, forming a dense flattish crown; 
twigs short, Suberect; leaves crowded, aScending, sub- 
membranous, deeply curved upon the upper side, much paler 
beneath, the veins beneath whitish; tips reeurved; flowers 
erect, Solitary, terminal; the calyx boot green; scorolia 
yx 6 inches long, the tube pale yellow, the spreading 
etipta.. creamy white at first but becoming flavus when 
old; fruit erect, subglobose, nearly 2 inches in diameter; 
Stamens and pistil pale white, not turning yellow with age 
but Soon undergoing decay, the stigma very large and 
succulent; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 

