10976. Garecinie binucao (Bleo.) Choisy. Slender 
tree S38 feet high with a 1 foot thick stem, in dry fertile 
soil of a wooded ridge et 1750 feet along the Beracatan 
@reek; wood whitish, finely grained, moderately hard and 
heavy, odorless and testeless; bark gray, thinly checked 
in gemell irregular plates; reddish brown beneath the 
epidermis and with e yellowish sap; branches above the 
middle, diverieate, comparatively short end numerously 
rebranched forming s dense elongated grown; leaves descend- 
ing, thinly corisecous, tips recurved, conduplicate on 
the upper derker green end lueid surface; fruit exillary 
ehiefly, upon 3 inches long, peduncles, henging, globose 
in outline, 2 inches in diameter, the apex deeply sunken; 
"Gadis;" Todaya, June, 1909. 
10977. Melicope monophylle Merr. Small erect 
tree 18 feet high with a 5 inch thiek atem, in dry fertile 
soil of woods on = ridge of the Beracatan oreek at 1750 
feet; berk smooth, mottled; wood dry, eoft, white or some 
yellowish, odorless and tasteless; branghes above the 
middle, forming @ spreading ¢rown; brenechlets slender; 
twigs green, suberect; leaves horizontelly apreading or 
secending, coriaceous, usuelly curved upon the upper derk 
green surface, paler beneath; infrutescence ascending, the 
gubglobose capsules darker green than the stelks; "Poagan;” 
fodaya, June, 1909. 
10978. Rendia arboren “lm. ne spe Very slender 
tree 45 feet high with » 1 foot thick stem, in dry woods 
along the Baerseatan ridge at 1750 feet; wood soft, sappy 
white throughout, odorless but with e distinet sweetish 
taste; bark smooth, finely blotehed with yellow and gray; 
stem round, not perfectly straight; brenehes mostly toward 
the top, more or less ascending; twige smooth, brown, more 
or lese angled; tips escending; leevee membranous, lucid 
Tich green above, yellowish green beneath, strongly condu- 
pliceate on the upper side; young infrutescence green, erect; 
fraite globose, 1/3 inch in dismeter, obscurely 2-celled, 
containing 10 te 16 irregulerly trienguler shaped seeds; 
*Cayut-gauli;” Todaya, dune, 1909. 
10979. Pleetronis umbeliate (Beartl.) Sch. Small 
tree in dry furtile soil of woode on aridge along the 
Bersaeaten creek at 1750 feet; stem 20 feet high, 6 inehes 
thiek, loosely branched above the middle; wood moderstely 
hard, sappy white, closely grained, odorless and tasteless; 
bark smooth, yellowish gray; branchlete rather numerous, 
lex, gsubpendulous, the ultimate ones green; leaves sub- 
coriageous, descending, dark green above, much paler 
beneath, flat; infrutesecence suberect, axillary, a few 
inches long, the stalke green; fruit flattened, sunken 
on the sides towerd the base, BRUNER shining lemon yellow; 
seed 2, brown, rugose; "Meguntepi; fodeya, June, 1909. 

