and even reclining, the branches in subwhorls, only the 
Jerger ones rebranched; leaves. ascending or-horigzontal, 
alternatingly seattered along the green twigs, flat, 
coriaceous, paler green beneath; flowers in pendant. eaxil- 
jery groups, with short stelks and green eslyx; corolla, 
stamens and pistils white or creamy white; Puerto Princesa, 
April,, 1911. 
13129. Buekanenia floride arborea Engl. Smell.erect 
tree in sand grevelly soil of wooded flats along the river 
at £50 feet; stem & inches thick, terete, 30 feet high, 
branched toward the top, etraight; wood soft, light, white 
or slightly reddish tinged toward the center, odorless sand 
without taste; bark yellowish gray blotehed and very smooth; 
hypodermis green, iseaebellinus otherwise; main branches 
ascending, few to seversl times branched in whorls; twigs 
ascendingly curved, green; leaves also ascending, mostly 
toward the ends of the. twigs, subshertaceous, conduplicate 
on the upper side, margins eoersely wavy and usually twisted 
toward the epex; infloreseence erect, from the uppermost 
leaf axils, the min etalks green, pedicels yellowigh,.and 
the calyx of the same color, petals white or light ereamy 
white, overy yellowish white; flowers fragrant; Puerto 
Princess, April, 1911. 
13130. Sideroxylon velutinam Elm. n. sp.- Medium- 
Sized tree in stony soil peeked with elay, on river banks 
at £250 feet; stem 1 foot thick; 35 feet high, subterete, 
with @ few ascending bvrenches arising from below the middle, 
more or less extending over the river benk; wood burly, 
quite heavy, dingy white, odorless and testeless; bark 
thick, dirtytbrown and smooth or sealing in amall thin plates, 
otherwise testsceous and with milky sep; limbs altimately 
freely rebranched and widely spreading, the twigs flexible 
and suberect; leaves aubchertaceous, horizontally spreading, 
flat or shallowly folded, shining dark green above, eanescent- 
ly green beneath; flowers caducous, sour dough in odor, green- 
ish white, the calyx deep green, the ovary disk yellowish, 
the filaments whitish and bearing brownish anthers; Puerto 
Princesa, April, 1911. 
13131. . Ardisia boiesiers IM. Small but slender 
erect tree in wet eand gravelly soild fronting the wooded 
river benk et £250 feet; stem terete or subterete, straight, 
5 inchee thiek, 20 feet high; wood moderately soft yet 
heavy, latericious, with eonspienous redial lines, odorless 
end testeless; bark of the same color, exeept the smooth 
grayish white white mottled epidermis; brenches toward 
the top only, forming an elongated erown, divericate, the 
larger ones rebranched; leaves horisontal mostly, flat or 
folded, rigidly coriaceous, peler beneath: inflorescence also 
very rigid, subpendant, all the stalks green, the odorless 
flowers pele pink, or light lilee; anthers dull yellow, 
fast? backs spotted; pistil whitish; Puerto Princesa, May, 
911. 

