40886, Pittosporum mecrooarpum Kerr,  Stocky . 
tree 16 feet high in light woods of fertile table lend 
at 3000 feet: stem & inches thick, terete, branched from 
pelow the middle: bark echaracteriatioally yellowigh thro: gh- 
eut and lenticelled; wood quite hard, e®ppy white, heavy, 
with ® faint greenish odor 2nd eweetiesh taste; branches — 
@ecending, numerously Pebranched, forming ® bushy round 
erewn; le@ves vertiollately ascending, sh@llewly condu- 
piicSte on the upper darker green side, tip recurved, 
mush paler or yellowish green benesth, thinly corisceour; 
young bark 4nd le@ves when crushed strongly %fomutic 
Gimiles te “turpentine,® flowers termin®lly epremding, 
the pedicels and e®lyoese green; the corgil4 3/4 inch 
long, white, the 5 segments curvingly spresding *bove 
the middle, not twietaéd or imbriested in the bud skank 
state: filaments and pietil greenish, anthers yeliowim 
brown: flowers fragrent; m@ture fruit upon yellowish sub- 
pendulous pedumoles, elong*ted pine like, 2 inches long, 
lL inch thick, orange red, the h®lvea strongly cre*sed, 
gubterete, the earpele thick easily cutting and contains... 
& gileky @romatic 041; seed flattened, somewh®t irregul®r 
in ghape, very deep red; “Tapoteas,” Todays, June, 1909, 
«440827, paratrophie philippinensis (Suv.) Vil. 
& 60 foot high tree in fertile soil of lightly wooded 
table ltads 8% 300% feet; stem at least 3 feet thick, 
found, wWanched from below the middle; branches ultinetely 
nuaefously rebranehed and quite slender 4nd drooping: 
leaves descending, conduphicate on the upper deep 
green surfece, pSler green beneath, tipe recurved, edges 
mere ev lese wavy, cori®ecous: inflorescence suberect, 
solitary or in pairs from the leaf |xile, green except 
the pSle greenish white stiguas; young fruit light green, 
emooth, 1/2 inch thick, with ® single seed; berk gray, 
lenticelied, brown on the branchlets; wood soft, rather 
soft and light, yellewish grsined, oderless but seme- 
wnet eweet in taste; "Apay.*  Toedaya, June, 1909, 
. 10628,  Blseocarpue fusicirpus Sle, n, Sp. 
Slendér tree 40 feet high in @ very huwld nook of & 
wooded ledge ®long the Sibulan river ®t 300 feet; 
steus rather crooked, 1 foot thick, branched @t the 
top: wain branches few nd numero usly rebranched, forme 
ing bushes: the twigs comparatively short, smooth, brown: 
bark on stem and larger branches gray; wood white, soft, 
light, ederless and tasteless; letves sublusiad deep 
green Shove, ptler green beneath, strongly conduplicste 
and reeurved, membranous, with reddish trown petioles; 
inflerese ence Sgcending from the leaf Sxile, the rachis 
@ige Feddich brown/on the exposed side; the flowers are 
fragrant, subpendipus upon the yellowish areen pedicels: 
ealys subpersistent, yellowish toward the base, reddish 
towerd the @pex; corell® white, ®e is ®leo the pistia; 
anthers ere@my yellow turning ashy gray with ge; 
*Lanauti.”  Tedaya, June, 1909, 

