plates, mottled, the middle region testaceous, the inner 
side sappy white; erookedly rebranched and spread- 
ing, the twigs very crooked and suberect; leaves horizontal- 
ly ee ae or sscending, the larger ones nearly a yerd 
long, sprea@ing; leaflets similerly spreading, submembranous, 
subglaucous green beneath, dark green above, flat with wavy 
margins along the middle; infrutescent spikes erect, from 
the uppermost leaf axils, terete, green, 5 to 9 inches long, 
bearing but few pods; pods elso green, rigid, abruptly 
recurved from the ascending pedicel, strongly headed on 
both sides, the old carpéls persistent and rolled wsk back 
in a springlike fashion; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
15122. Turpiniea pomifers DC. Shrublike tree in 
‘gravelly soil of wooded river benks st 250 feet; stem 
6 inches thiek, subterete, 15 feet high or higher, branched 
from below the middle; wood moderstely soft, dingy or 
yellowish white, odorless and tasteless; bark yellowish 
grey and minutely checked on the surface, yellowish brown 
otherwise; branches widely spreading, rebranched toward 
their ends; leaves opposite, ascending; leaflets chartaceous, 
econduplicate on the upper darker green surface,tips recurved; 
infrutescenee from tie uppermost leaf exils, laxly bat only 
sparingly rebrenched, all the stelks pale green; fruits 
subpendant, 3/4 ineh in diameter, hard and green, regosely 
3-lobed from the apex down, 3-celled, 6-seeded; Puerto 
Princesg, April, 1911. 
15125. Vatica blancosne Blm. n. sp. Smell shrab- 
like tree in red. more or less gravelly soil of wooded river 
benke at £250 feet; stem 6 inches thiek, neerly 20 feet 
high, with main ascending branches from near the base; 
wood moderately hard, bitter, odorless, dingy or yellowish 
white; bark of the same color except the smoothis gray 
surface, rather easily separating from the wood; branchlets 
few and relatively short; leaves alternatingly seattered, 
subchartaceous, fiet, descending, slightly peler green 
beneath, veins yellowish; inflorescence mostly terminal, 
suberect, the flexible stalks reddish brown, the calyx 
green; petels, etemens and pistils creamy white, buds more 
yellow; flowers eweetly fregrant; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 
13124. Zxcoecaria philippinensis Merr. Smell erect 
or suberect tree in stony red soil of densely wooded flets 
at 250 feet; stem terete, 6 inches thick, 15 feet high, 
the few mein branches erising from the middle; wood light, 
soft, without. odor or taste, the sepwood white, becoming 
testeceous toward the center; berk thick, du11 brown and 
deeply checked on the surface, the middle region latericious; 
leaves ascending corieceous, fiat, dark green above, yellow- 
ish green beneath; spikes erect, strict, mostly terminal, 
pale. green, the anthers deep yellow; Puerto Princesa, 
April, 1911. 

