210520. Pipturus mindanrensis Elme,Ne Bp. 
Dense 3 to 5 feet high shrubs on a steep open slope of 
loose fertile soil on Anget's knoll et S750 feet; wood 
soft greenish white with a large green pith, odorless 
and tasteless; bark smooth, begen, easily peeling; twigs 
fastigiate, ascending; leaves many, membrenous, flet, 
of a light green coler, descending; much paler beneath; 
young infrutescence dark green, in dense glomerules 
chiefly along the branchleta; “Amiremi." todaya, May, 
19096 
LOB62Z1 5 Teehaemun todeyense Elms, Re Spe Dense 
petehes in black e011 of open fielés at 5000 feet: stems 
reclining end forming tengled mosses, oceasionally 
brenched, the upper portion erect and bearing green leeves, 
the besal portion rooting et the nodes and usually with 
dry persistent leaves; foliage ascending, rather rigid, 
the dicer anes becoming recurved, flat, slightly paler 
beneath; spikes erect, festigiate, yellowish green, 
purplish with age; stigmns aull purple " Helopos" feed 
for horses,  Todeya, May, 1909. 
420622, Fieus hauili Bleo. ‘Small erect treés or 
shrubs on "“Anget's" knell, in thickets of eastern slope 
and in fertile sell; at 4250 feet; wood whitish, soft, 
oderless and tasteless; bark smooth, yellowish gray, 
covered with brown lenticele; limbs ereat; leaves quite 
rigid end thick, flat or only alightly recurved, descend- 
ing, pele areen especially on the lower side; nerves 
whitish; figs solitery or in peirs of the waft axils, 
erect oy suberect, upon 1/2 inch long green peduncles 
syeonium thick hard derk green especially towards the 
shallowly ridged apex, covered with minute mild spots; 
flowers whitish; “Lateayi." ‘odaya, May, 1909. 
10524. =leeocarpus apoensis Elms,e Sp. Tree 
60 fect high, with fully a foot thick streight stem, 
im good soil of dense forests at 4250 feet along the 
Baclayen trail; limbs rigid; weed moderately hard, not 
brittle, yellowish white throughout, o¢erless andi taste- 
lees; bark smooth brown, thet on the branches gray; 
leaves charteceous, dark green, spreading or deseenting, 
shiny deep green above, much duller benerth, nacerly flat; 
infloreseence subterminal; buds and flowers subpendulous, 
yellowish brown, the apical portion of the petals deflexed, 
hairy end flesh red; anthers dull ashy brown; the ovary 
yellowish, etyle greenish; the flowere ere rigid, caducous,. 
the parts easily separting; inner surface of the calyx 
above the middle ved; the flowers have « faint yet dis- 
tinet sourish pleasent eder; fruits globose, dark green, 
hard, with derk read meat, 2/4 inch thick; "Mpaok." 
Zodaye, May, 1909 

