the yellowish bracts heiry es is also tre grecn portion of 
.the twigs; peduncles from the uppermost lesf exiles, 2 
inches long and recurved, yellowish; heads rugose or ir- 
regularly globose in outline, 3 to 5 inehes seroes, nearly 
ecitrinous ye llow; Puerto Princesa, May, 1911. 
13136. Pittesporum pentandram (Bleo.) Merr. Slender 
erect tree in dry compact soil of thickets or light woods 
interspersed anong the coron formation at 60 feet; stem 
terete, 10 inches thick, 50 feet high; wood sappy white, 
‘gweet to bitterich, odorless, soft yet heevy: bark yellow- 
ish grey, smoothish or lenticelled, with a ereen hypodermis; 
main brencnes erect, ultimately numeronusly rebranched, the 
twigs green; leaves horizontally epreading, deeply eurved 
upon the upper shining green surfece, paler beneath, mid- 
vein whitish, reeurved especially toward the apex; inflorescence 
erect, ell the stelke green, eslyx yellowish so, corolls 
cremeus, ovary and style greenish besring a white stigma, 
anthers deep yellow and borne by cremenus filements, flowers 
very faintly odorous; Puerto Princesa, May, 1911. 
15157.  Csllophyllum speectebile Willd. Small tree 
in wet clay gravelly soil of light woods with a dense 
undergrowth, at 500 feet; stem terete, erooked, 8 inches 
thick, £0 feet high, ehiefly branched toward the top; 
wood moderately light end soft, odorless end tasteless, 
the outer one-half testaceoue, the centrel mess ecestaneous; 
berk thin, sealing in coarse pletes, lstericious except the 
yellowish gray epidermis, thick, with some latex; branches 
crookedly rebrenched end spresding; the lex altimete ones 
ueageally gurved, leaves numerous, flat, darker green above, 
the middle yellowish; pedicels iight green; fruits derk ~ 
olive green, globose, 3/8 inch in diameter when ripe; 
Puerto Princesa, May, 1911. 
13138. Lorantnus mirabilis Urk. et Muel. Parasitic 
upon the limbs of small trees in wet sand gravelly soil 
elong streamlets at 600 feet and in light woode densely 
interspersed with shrubberies; stems eolidly grafted upon 
its support, several, very numerously rebrenched, 3 to 5 
fect long, the brenchlete flexible and eonspieuously - 
nodose; leeves very rigid, deeply folded upon the upper 
side, recurved, a trifie peler beneath, frequently turning 
brownish; wood tough, berk smooth and grayish white; 
inflorescence. .elustercd latersliy, exeept the lower 
1/2 or 2/2 of the eorolle which is deep purple: spical 
buds constricted red portion infleted and eons picous- 
iy 6-ridged or winged, segments 6, filements and pistil 
greenish, the epiesl enthers yellow;.fruits 3/8 ineh thick, 
globose and green end smooth; Puerto Princess, May, 1911. 

