12125. Unonea palawaneneie Bim, my Bp. Lex shrub 
in clayey rocky soi] of woode@ river banks at 250 feet; 
stem subterete, necrly 2 inchs thick branched from near 
the base; wood without oder or taste, maple grained mo- 
devetely seft, yellowish white; berk smoeth and gray on 
the outside, with a green hypotermis, the inner ®ide yellow- 
ish; branchlets not numerous, lax, somewhat drooping; 
leaves coriaceous, descending slightly, tips reewrved and 
margins wavy, very deep green end only a trifle peler be- 
neath; flower odorles, eolitery from the leet axils, 
pendant; pediee] and calyx green; the 6 petals equal 
in shape and size, yellowish ereen; the rigid stamens 
and pistil similar in color; fruits derk green, terete, 
irregularly constricted, lese than 1 inch in length anda 
3/8 inch thick; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
13126, Gerdenia merrillii Fin, Ereet shrub in dry 
compact 6011 of thickets or light woods at 50 feet; stems 
several in the cluster erect, 1 inch thick, 5 w 9 feet 
high, terete, only Sparingly branched towerd the top; wood 
ederless and tasteless, moderately Solid, pith quite lerge 
dingy white; berk greyish brown, minutely cheoked, yellow 
ish except the epidermis; twigs green, divaricute, lax, 
relatively short; leeves coriaceous, horizontal, shallowly 
folded, paler green benesth, nargine suxke coarsely wavy; 
flowers strongly frearent, erect, white o®pecially the 
Segments, calyx always green; fruits also erect, smooth, 
hard, green and densely streaked with chocolate brown, 
when neerly ripe turning yellowleh ana neerly 2 inches 
in diameter, each half with more than severe] seeks; 
Puerte Princesa, April, 1911. 
13187. Utrieuleria elmeri Stapf ne 8p. Aquatic in 
sandy soi] packed between gravel slightly flooded with 
shallow elear flowing water in the river bed at 250 fet; 
leaves bright green, membranous, paler benesth, usually 
floating on the water surface or festened to the fibrous 
white roots end Slightly submerged; infloresecence erect, Stem 
Sieiake green, usually crooked toward the top, with only a 
few flowers; the odorless flewers strongly ateending, the 
pedicel and galyx pele green; serolla deep violet except 
the whitish throat ef the lewer lip which appears to be 
op up and the emall upper lip; Puerto Princesa, April, 
1911. 
13128,  Diospyroe elata Flu. fy Sp. lax suberect 
shrub in ved grevelly #011 of wooded river banks at 250 
fect; stem 1 inch thick, terete, 10 feet high, its few 
mein branches arising from below the middle; wood White, 
moderately hard, ederless end tasteless; bark smooth ater 
to murinus, the middle portion whitish, the inner side yellow- 
igh; epidermis amoothish; the few long branches Spreading 

