—«-s«sG4, Melia canéollei use. Tyee, 25 m, high 
in gulohes at 2506 feet; trunk 5 to 5 feet in diemeter, 
soon @ividing into min brenches; brencher speringly 
rebranched snf widely; the ultimate ones suberect, rvother 
crooked and pagers woed not herd, odorless, the outer one to 
2 inehes maple white, the ianer rusty brown; 018 berk thick, 
eheeked into ¢onspicuens lengitudineily interlaced pistes, 
gray, the immer half white ® sappy, the outer helt beneath 
the epidermis éry and reddish, thet on the twige brown end 
snooth, lenticelled on the brenches; leeves epreadiag, leaving 
raieed seare after falling, subpendulous; the leaflets, 
thin, smooth, derker green above, condupliceste on the upper 
side, edges erinkled; inflorescence angending trom the lower 
lew? axils, suberect, 211 the stalks green; gelye yellows 
ish; ¢orolla pure white, recurved ani @trongiy 6 uplics te 
tower€ the base; filementous tube degk purple; ovary and 
style green, stigma yellewieh; no oder to the flowers, bat 
the showy flowers with the tufte of foliege at the ente of — 
the comparetively fow twiga give the Wee « pretty appearance; 
“Beeelfien,” Dumaguete, “pril, 1900, — j 
Le 
lewish eapecialiy 
emie; tel; 
9766, Solenun verbaseifoliun Linn, Erect shrub, 
S$ to 5 m high, with 6 inehes thick stems in dry #012 
of the hemp region st 2500 feet; wood white, with ea greenieh 
olor, ig magn | soft; berk vie 41 finely mottled, smcoth 
exeept for the lenticels, green > yeeth the skin, otherwise 
whitish; branches dichetenous] branched, crooked, not 
numerous, quite rigid and bresking with @ snap; leaves 
diverse in size, sett oné goon wilting after the 
shrub is out, neerly fist, descending, lighter ereen beneath; 
oderless flowers penfulous; the 6 eorelle segments eubrecurved, 
white except the middle basal portion ent the fine veins 
whieh ere greenish; filements ané etyle alee greenish; snithers 
yellow; young berries erect green; Hoog-noog." 
Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
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