13105.  Derris atro-viclacea Hlm. ns. Sp. A. tree 
Glimber and Sprawling over their tops, in moist reddish 
Soil of dense woods at 260 feet; stem 3 inchs thick, 
Subterete or twistingly fluted, more or less crooked, 
looping and hanging; wood seft, porous, the outer portion 
whitish, nearly roseus in the center, gradually changing 
in color, odorless and tasteless; bark thick, brown on 
the Stem and gray on the branchlets, covered with yellowish 
brown lenticels transversely set, latericious except the 
epidermis, with an abundance of deep molasses colored 
Sap; branches freely rebranched, crooked, lax, the few 
twigs Slender and drooping; gs old leaves chartaceous, 
younger ones coriaceous, subpendant, very shallowly 
Gonegave beneath, deeper dull green above, densely ferrugi- 
nous beneath in the younger ones; panicle profuse, vary- 
ing from a foot to a yard in length, very limp, Suberect, 
densely ferruginous except the odorless dark vinosus 
petals; the baner greenish white on the middle basal 
portion, 80 likewise or the claws of the wings and keels; 
Stamens and pistils alse whitish, the anthers more yellowish; 
flowers falling early and are not visited by insects; 
Puerto Prineesa, April, 1911, 
13106, asterina trachyearpa Syd. nov. Spec. Upon 
the nether side of the older leaves of Leguimosae number 
13105; the vegetative growth is of a dull brownish black 
and occaSionally covers the greater leaf surface; the 
masses here and there scattered dense 
colonies, darker or nearly a® dark; irregular in shape 
and Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
Host.--Derris atro-vicolacea Rim 
13107. Polyetictus confundens des, bres, In dense 
colonies upon Small partly decayed limbs or climbers lying 
upon humus covered Soil of dense woods at 250 feet; plants 
Single, occasionally contiguous in horisontal lines, on 
the sides, flexible yet dry, whitish beneath, fulvous above, 
toward the margin especially marked with deeper yellow 
narrow regions and parallel with the margin, Stalk very 
Short, Spongy; Puerto Princefa, April, 1911. 
13109. Chaleas paniculata Linn. ‘suberect treelike 
Shrub in moist forests near the river at 250 feet, in 
humus covered Sand-gravelly seil; stem 6 inches thick, 
20 feet high, branched from below the middle, crookedly 
fluted or wadded; wood very hard, whitish on the 
outside, this color gradually changing into the middle 
yellow portion which abruptly changes into 
ardisiacus center or heartwood, odorless and without taste; 
bark smooth, green, or very minutely checked 
exeept the epidermis; main branches 
widely Spreading, crockedly ; the twigs 
merous and lax, leaves horizontally Spreading, sub- 
membranous, lucid on both sides, paler or lighter green 
beneath, nearly flat but margins conspicuously wavy, tips 
twisted; inflorescence suberect, from the uppermost leaf 
axils, the stalks darker green than the calyx; corolla 

