13097. Thuidium plumulosum (poz. et Molk.) Densely 
matting large Smooth surfaced bowlders lying in a densely 
wooded creek bed at 1000 feet; stems thread-like, creeping 
end numerously branched, nenally blotched with castaneous 
Karka hairs; leaf stalks erect, green proper 
Strongly recurved; leathery pinnae horizontally 
Spreading and slightly recurved, the segments 
reen; cups axillary, tinged with very 
pale sreen. Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
15096. Gryptocarya palewanensis Merrs Small tree 
in moist gravelly or s8tony @oil in a densely wooded stream 
fiat at 1000 feet; stem G inches thiek, subterete, 50 feet 
high, very Grooked, branched toward the top only; wood 
rather soft, dinay or yellowish white, without odox or 
taste; bark Smoothish, latericious except the 
or 6v7en greenish mottled main 
branches crooked, Spreadingly branched toward their onds; 
sreecn pubescent, 
horisontally spreading, ascendingly curved 
toward apex; leaves siatlarly Spreading, or descending 
tascons, deep green on the upper usually curved 
Surface, much paler green beneath, the veins yellowish 
green or white; infruteseence ascending or erect, from 
the uppermost Leaf axile, green, 3 to inc hes long: 
fruits shining fusiformly ellipseid, 3/4 inch long; 
Puerto Princesa, april, 1911. 
13099% . Orophea Submactlatea Blms mse Bp. Smeal) 
ereot tree in wet gravelly Soil amongst bowlders of a 
densely wooded oreek cut at 1600 feet; Stem 3 inches thick 
1 Zoot high, terete, branched from below the middie; 
wood dingy white without odor or taste, rather with 
with gonSpiouous redial limes; bark smooth, dingy 
white, exeept the greenish brown blotched epidermis ; 
main branehes Lona, divaricate, repeatedly branching; 
' branchlets horizontally spreading on the sides; 
drooping; leaves membranous, Fle t 
Sparingly recurved, paler areen beneath 
in small axillary groups, usuelly Beending; the 
podics] and calyx greenish; the central 3 segments reddish 
ereot and forming a hood over the sex organs, their bases 
constricted a& to allow entrance and exit 
arches: Btamens decper veal pw than the stigmas; onerto 
Princesa, ADFAA» 191i 
13100. Polyalthia pulgarense. BRlms ne Spe Tex 
Shrub, in very damp densely wooded creek ents,amongst:. 
stones at 1500 feet; stem 1.1/2 ineh thick, 10 feet high 
or longa, terete, crooked, branched from near the base; 
wood quite hard and brittle, odorless and taste,ess, 
gradually changing from the Stramineous sapwood to the 
dark center; radial Lines conspicuons ; 
Slender, lax, horizontal or descending; bark smoothish, 
areenish to Stramineous beneath the epidermis; Leaves 
flat, paler beneath, 
the apex; flowers opposite 
the leaves, pendulous, Solitary, the pedicel 
and Galyx green; perianth Seaments thick, deep 

