100090, Celtis mindensensis Sim, n, sp, rect 
tree in fertile dry soil of woods ekirting the ridge 
of the Baracaten ereek snd the upper limit of the cogon 
grees @t 1500 feet: stem 26 feet high, 6 inches thick, 
branched @beve the middle, etraight, terete; weed pale 
er dirty yellewish white, hard, oderless “nd tasteless; 
bark emeoth, mattled; branches crookediy rebranched, 
forming ® rather dense elong®ted crown; twige rigid, 
ereoked; lLe@ves “liso rigidly ehearteceous, deseo endingly 
vecurved, neerly f1et or econeave on the lighter green 
ewer surface; fruite termine], upon short sparingly 
branched, green 1/2 to 1 1/2 ineh long st®lke, green 
yellowish, ultimetely flesh red, berely 1/2 inch long; 
"{eeg." Tedaya, June, 1909, 
11000, Themed® gigantes (Gav,) Hack, iL&@rge 
tuesocks in the upper cogon region ®t 1600 feet; stens 
gever®) to the cluster, rigid and hard, yellowish green, 
gore of Less flattened, 3/4 inch wide &t the bese where 
it io @mply supplied with ensifermely erranged tuft 
ef radical lesves, beering 3 to 5 nodes 2 feet apart 
with 8g many G@uline leawes, the upper naif whipe-like 
curved and with dreoping tips; panicle 3 to 5 feet long, 
the parte curvingly drooping; spikelets green exept 
the yellowish brown haira; subtended by feided foliaceaocus 
presets; readies] leaves numerous, arranged &t the base 
in eneiform tuftlets, etrengly folded 4nd grooved below 
the middle, the sheaths subgl®ucessent, grayish green, 
the midnerve above white, sharply #08bid Sleng the 
margins, keel, and veins beneath, the upper half strongly _ 
recurved » the tips nearly touching the ground; "Girun;” 
21001, Lee® philippinenesie werr, & erooked 
rather inelined 20 feet high tree in fertile e011 of 
@ wooded ridge bordering the Baraeatan creek ravine 
and the upper limit of the Cogon formation, 8t 1500 
feet: wede moderately hard, without odor nd taste, 
veddieh toward the center: bark gray er brownish, #o8ling 
in plates; Limbe chiefly ®t the top, erookedly spread. 
ing horisentally: twigs few, thick, suberect; leaves 
heavy, Secendingly recurved on the whole, 6 feet, iong 
the largest or basal division 2 feet wide, with mostly 
$ @ompound division poire; peduncle 6 to 12 inches 
ow i ‘green, somewhat flattdmed, the upper side ef 5 
te 6 inches from the bese fist and in the early stege 
provided with 1/2 inch wide wings whieh soon break off | 
er wither and turn blees; Le®flete coriaceous, curvingly 
deseending, yellowish green benesth, very shining deeper 
green on the upper surfsee; inflorescence termine, 
erect, wuch exceeded by the foliage, 1 foot long, 1 
pi wide seroas _ Late. sete by ey aioe roan) 
owerea odotless ealgx & cers o sean ants green 
tne filamentous tube nite, the ineurved @nthers yellow, 
pistil green; “memali;” Tedays, June, 1909, 

