description is taken from the Specimens, 
the fruity Specimens were taken from another 
tree, three ); Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 
1309¢. Gryptoearya palawanensis Merr, Small 
erect Shrub-like tree in moist stone gravelly soil of 
densely forested creek banks at 500 feet; stem 4 inches 
thick, Subterete, crooked, 20 feet high at least, branched 
from below the middle; wood moderately soft, odorless 
and tasteless, dingy white; bark greenish, roughened 
with blunt exerescences or the covered 
portion testaceous; branches rather widely 
Spreading, and numerowsly rebranched; twigs Slender 
Leaves branch] ets 
Submembranous, much paler. infrutescence 
arising from the leaves ascending or erect, 
pale green; fruits shining green, ellipsoid, 1/2 ineh 
jong, l-jseeded; Puerto Princepa, April, 1911. 
13091. Chloranthus officinalis Blm. Perennial 
herbs in wet humus covered Soi] mixed with gravel stone 
along the densely wooded banks of a ereek at 750 feet; 
roots long, fibrous, yellowish; stem suberect, Soveral 
from the Same root cluster, 1 te 2 yaursk yards long, 
much recurved toward the top middle, terete, 
Shining branches few widely Spreading leaves upon ascend- 
ing green and petioles, horizontally Spread- 
ing nearly fiat 
recurved, paler groen beneath; 
inflorescence erect from the upper most leaf aril, Asrk 
green except the yellowish flowers; fruits easily falling, 
Subcompressed, turning Snowberry white from the base 
toward the bark or brownish apical cone; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 
13092. Cyrtandra inaequifolia Blm. Ms Bp. Very 
lax and soft suffrutescént plants inhabiting roek crevices 
in Seepage places along deeply Shaded creeks at 750 feet; 
Stem solitary or few from the Same roct, hardly ascending, 
rebranched, 1/2 inch thick or thicker and thinner, the 
erooked branchlets horizontally Spreading or descending; 
leaves Similarly disposed, velvety pleasing green above, 
much paler or whitish green beneath, very Soft membranous; 
flowers 1 to 6 clustered from the leaf axils, ascending 
80 aS barely to be above the foliage, after anthesi 
becoming pendant; calyx green; flowers flattish, 4/4 
inch long, the tubular portion green, the exerted portion 
white, the upper lip purple lined or streaked, the lower 
with a tinge of yellow on the throat; Stem and branches 
yellowish gray, the twigs greenish; fiowers odorless; 
Sumka #x Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 

