13093, Piyehotria pyramidata Elm. nm. 8p. 
Suffrutescent plants, growing in very moist stony seil 
of densely wooded creek beds at 750 feet; stem erect, 
i to 2 yards high, woody toward the base, occasionally 
branched; the branches erooked and with suberect tips; 
leaves ascending or horizontal, 
above, much lighter or subglaucescent beneath, flat and 
only Slightly recurved: inflorescence Strictly erect, 
in whorls and usually descending 
Stalks ealyx yellowish 
and pistil white; 3/8 ineh 
long, rather Slightly oboveid, terete, green, then intens, 
finally deep black while still settached to the plant; 
Puerto Princesa, april, 1911. 
1304, Picrasma philippinensis Klm. me Sp. Small 
creect tree on Seepage ledges covered with thin earth, 
along the centcly wood ereck at 750 feet; stem terete, 
@ inches thick, 25 feet high, with its main branches 
arising from below the middie; wood quite soft, bitter, 
odorless, dingy white, light; bark grayish or yellowish 
white mottled, cremeus except the smocth epidermis; 
main brenches atcending, numercus) y rebranched, the 
branchlets very lax and nearly cattaneocus; leaves ascend- 
ing cr horizontal; leaflets submembranous, vyory dark yet 
Shining green above, much paler or relatively yellowish 
éreen beneath, nearly flat, the margins somewhat wavy 
toward the recurved apex; inflorescence from the terminal 
jeaf axils, timilarly arranged, lax end deep green; 
flowers pendant, Sukk subglobose; the 4 perianth Begnents 
thick green, rugose, vulvate; stamens 4, greenish bend- 
ing over the cvary Sc a® to sover up the 4 sessile 
Stigmatic lohee with the anthers; ovary Short oveid, 
4-lobed, umber hairy; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
16095,  Evonynus alate Him. rect Shrub, in 
. Stony Seepage places covered with thin earth along the 
densely covered ¢tream bank at 750 feet; stem subtercte, 
© inches thick, high; ereoked and branched 
from the bese; wood melleus, rather and 
heavy, finely grained, odorless and tasteless; bark- 
after or greenish Silvery white beneath the 
Smooth that on the branchlets green; 
branches laxly rebranched and sparingly Slender; 
horizontel or deseending and Similarly 
beneath, flat but with tips, 
inflorescence arising above the lenves and on the lower 
Side of the twigs, subpendent, pale green throughout. . 
except the yellowish 4 the floral part rather 
rigid and entirely odorless; fruits less than 1/2 inch 
ecress, equally fisttened on both ends, 4-lobed, 
4-Celled and 4-seeded; Puerto [rincesa, April, 1911. 
13096. 48terina lobata Syd. nov. Spee, Upen the 
nether side of. the leaves of Sepindaceae (?) number 
15094; Spots larger irregular, sometimes contiguous 
and occasionally covering the entire leaf surface; 
. bleck fruiting cases globese te 
Small; <Uerte vrincefa, April, 191]. 

