10963, ‘Thespesi® lampss b, & G, Breet shrub form~- 
ing patches in dry #011 4% the upper edge of the sogen 
region ®t about 1500 feet; stems strict, 1/2 ingh thick, 
& to 7 feet high, branched from the middle; wood eoft, 
white, edeYlees end tasteless, with ® large pith, tough; 
park brown smooth; branches Wecending, green or reddish 
brown;wpetioles alee ascending, terete; blades horisentally 
spreading, conduplicste on the upper sideyespeci®liy 
tewards the bese, limp, auch Lighter gredn beneath; frutes~- 
sence teruinel or from the uppermest branches or Leaves, 
upon sparingly branched etalke less than 6 inches leng, 
1 inch leng, 3/4 inch thick ®t the base, angular, tapering 
tewerd the Spex, Scelled; seed dull blesk, numerous in 
each Gell; “Dolimocean;*  Today®, June, 1WO®, : 
 -40954, Desmodium gyroides 13, “Wiliow" like shrub 
in @y cogon patches 8t 1500 feet; stems forming pathhes, — 
1/é inch thiek, round, branched 411 slong, but the upper 
branches well developed, 6 to 7 feet high; wood rather 
tough, greenish white, odorless and tasteless; bark brown 
emooti, etsily stripping; twige “ecending, grec and red« 
dish @long the upper side; letves menbranoue, fiat, much 
Lighter and paler green beneath, agcending and more oF 
less vertie@1; infloressence terminal, sparingly oranched; 
bud brSete green; flowers odorless, purple, deciduous; 
pods green and brown pubescent, fiat and consirictid, 
descending; "Cariout-ricut;" Ted@ya, dune, 1900, 
20956, Beuhinia cumingiane senth, A lefty tree 
Climber 8nd epre@ding over the tops of them in the foreste 
at 1500 feet aiong the baraeaten ereck; leSves thiniy 
eeriaceous, shiny on both sides, deeper green on the 
upper rather etrongly folded surface, the young ones 
yellewisn green; inflorescence upon leafless shoots fer 
aver resshing the foliage; the #t8lke rusty green, sube 
ereot; calyx green, ferruginous pubescent; petein delieste, 
ai yellow at firet, ultimately prick red, deciduous; 
filaments of the e8me turn of colors; ovary green, atyle 
veddieh, stigns green; old etem 3 inches thick, flexible, 
Yeund: wood porous, yellowioh, edeorless snd t4gtelees; ; 
park rather thiek, eh@ilewly ruges longitudin@ily, quite 
golid, dull brown, inclined to branches on the 
tep forming dense tangled masses; “sro;"*  Tedaya, dune, 1909, 

10967, Uverise rubra c, B. Reb, Lofty tree climber 
in dty woods of the ridge ®iong the paragatan creek &t 
1600 feet; stem round, 1 to 3 inches thick, quite rigid; 
wood whitish, porous; bork smooth, dull brown; ranches 
&1i along the stem, quite rigid, tough, brown, rather 
slender and for retching, creokediy rebranched; twige 
herisental, cla@ueeus green; leaves chartaceous oF thinly 
coriaceous, destendingly recurved, edges wand Like “nad 
only #h@llewly ¢ onduplicate on the upper somewhat darker 
ereen surfsece, aniny on both sides; flewers erimeon red, 
gubpenduleus, Slong the twigs; peduncle gi®uceus green, 
bearing foliseeous bracts; oSlyx Sisoe green; the G6 petSis 
curvingly Teflexed; stamens ereamy yeliow; atigmas solidly 
covered with & yellowish glue; “Linas,” Todaya, June, 1900 
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