
13166. Myristice umbellseta Elm. n. gp. Small erect 
tree in rich humus soil of forests at 750 feet on the treil 
to Napsan; stem crooked, terete, 8 inches thick, 25 feet high, 
branched toward the top only; mein branches widely spread- 
ing; the ultimete ones lax, slender snd horizontelly spreed- 
ing or drooping; wood soft, white with red blood vessels, 
more dingy toward the center, light, odorless and tasteless; 
bark relatively thiek, smooth end mottled, lstericious other- 
wise, with a dark molasses sep; leeves drooping, flat or the 
sides coersely wavy especially toward the reeurved apices, 
leathery, shining deep green above, glaucous green beneath; 
nute 1 to 3-clustered from the leaf axile or isteral, their 
stelks shiny green and pendent, egg-shaped, hard, yellowish 
green, the larger ones 2 inches long; fruite espparently very 
young since the real soft seed is very small and the rind 
over 1/2 inch thiek; Puerto Princesa, May, 1911. 
sized tree in fertile soil of dense moist forest at 750 
feet, on the trail to Bapsan; stem 2 feet thick, strongly 
wadded toward the base, otherwise terete and nearly straight, 
55 feet high at least; wood very light and soft, white and 
with a yellowish tinge or more yellow in the middle, odorless 
and with a slight bitter taste, berk dnll brown ana rray 
mixed, minutely cheeked, the middle »ortion yellowish brorn, 
the inner side sappy white, with an sbundanee of latex; main 
branches at the top, spreading snd forming a flat crown, 
ultimately numerously rebranched; the branchlets gubverticil« 
late, soft, green, easily breeking;- leaves gimilerly disposed, 
profuse, corisceour, folded upon the upper shining deep green 
surface, glancous green beneath; infl orescence erect, the 
green stalks averaging S inches long, buds greenish, flowers 
creamy yellow and odorless; young fruits seft, terete; 
deep purple, eseendingly spreading; Puerto Princesa, May, 
1911Ls 
15169. Pagraea ecougeestiflor@ Rlm. n. sp. Very slender 
tree in fertile soil of dense forests et 750 on the trail to 
Napsen; stem terete, straight, 4 inehes thick, 28 feet high ; 
wood bitterish, odorless, moderstely hard and heavy, the thin 
Sspwood whitish, otherwise yellowish brown; berk gray, coarse- 
ly checked, pele yellowish otherwise, relatively thick; 
branches few at. the top, slender, horizontally spreading, 
Sparingly rebrenched, green, rigid; leaves similerly disposed, 
opposite, seattering elong the branches, echarteceons, only 
the tips recurved, a trifle paler green beneath; inflorescence 
in bud reddish brown, terminel, subpendant, rigid; stamens 
5, whitish; overy pele green, style and stigma derk green; 
Puerto Princesa, May, 1911. 
13170. Aanthophyllum palewanensis Hlm. ne gps Sub- 
erect shrub in good moist humus-covered soil of forests at 
750 feet along the Nepsen treil; stem terete, 2 inches thick, 
LO to 15 feet high, slenderly from the middle; branches green- 
ish, speringly rebranched bat widely epresding, wood quite 

