13087. Picus ampelas Burm, Small erect tree in 
moist S011 of wooded or Shrub covered banks of small 
nearly Stagnant Stream winding about in the cogon formation 
at 26 feet; stem 8 inches thiek crooked, 25 
feet high, its main branches arising from below the 
middle; odorless and tasteless, rather 
coarse rings, whitish; bark white 
mottled, the middle yellowish, the inner side white and 
without latex branchlets slender 
lax, waually drooping 
rigidly chartaceous, horizontal or else 
folded upon the upper darker green surface; recurved 
toward the apex; figs solitary or in paire, upon greenish 
ascending pedicels which turn yellow with age, flatly 
Rlobose, apex sunken, hispid even in the scitrinows state 
the Small umbilicate scales pink; flowers pale or 
white or in the younger fresh 
turning yellow from toward apex; Puerto 
Princesa, April, 1911. 
18088, Hlatestema integrifolium (Don) Wedd. 
Subherbaceous plants inhabiting damp humus covered earth 
of a Steep densely wooded Slope near the ereek at 500 
feet; Stem never exceeding 1/2 inch in thickness terete, 
dark green, quite rigid and breaking with a Snap, ascend- 
ing, creeping and taking at the base, 
curved, branches arising below the middle, 3 to 5 feet 
high, Beattered patches; branches not numerous, 
crooked, uStially aScending: leaves horizontal and recurved, 
otherwise flat, submembranous, much 
the prominent beneath; inflorescence 
clustered about or around the underside of the 
twigs; the Stamens more white, and bursting into anthesis 
with a sudden force; Puerto Prineefa, April, 1911. 
13089. Baccaurea terminalifolia Elm. mn. &p. Small 
erect Shrub-like trees in moist humus covered earth of 
Steep damp forested Slopes along the creek at 500 feat 
or higher; Stem 4 inches thiok feet high, Sub- 
terete, mainly branched at the middle; wood hard, heavy, 
and brittle, dingy white, without odor or taste; bark 
thin, yellowish gray, the middle iseabellinus, the inner 
Side whitish, Smooth; branches freely and crockedly 
rebranched forming a dense or rather loose crown; 
in whorls upon 
Suberect petioles, and 
reeurved, tips strongly recurved, otherwise flat, much 
paler green beneath, thinly coriaceows; inflorescence 
elustered between the leaves, ascending, the stalks 
greenish, the flowers light sulphur; fruits pendant 
upon reddish apikes oboidly globose, 1/3 to 1/2 ineh 
long, green exeept the reddish brown 
Sides, but only one of these maturing 
seed juicy, Surrounded by a 
membrane, ovoidly compressed 
at the apex; (the wood sample 

