
11233. Pavetta barnesii £lm. Tree-like shrub in 
- dry fertile soil of wooded flat lands at 1500 feet; stem 
15 feet high, 4 inches thick, more or less crooked, branched 
from the middle; bark brown, thinly and minutely checked; 
wood moderately soft, sappy white, odorless and tasteless; 
branches lexly spreading, the twige suberect and green; 
leavee ascendingly reeurved, submembranous, tips abruptly 
recurved, ax flat otherwise or ofly the edges wavy, sub- 
lueid ené derker green on the upper surface; inflorescence 
terminal erect, the stalks and calyx dark green; eorolla 
pare white, the 4 segments rotately spreading and twisted: 
style also white besring @ green clavate stigma: filements 
Similar in color; anthers creamy white; "Tendaluli;" 
Todaya, July, 1909. 
11234. Phryniom philippinenee Ridl. Large clumps 
in moist eompact fertile soil of dense woods at 1600 feet; 
clump composed of numerous tuftlets; fruiting stem teretely 
flettened, smooth, hard, yellowish green, at the base provided 
with 2 or more ensiformely erranged lesvee; petioles eacend+ 
ing, similar to the fruiting stelk, sheathed toward the base, 
ascendingly curved at the distal end; blades ascending, with 
abruptly recurved tips otherwise nearly flat except the 
gonéuplieate basal portion, lucid deep green above, paler 
beneath, chartaceous; inflorescence upon the upper side of 
the fruiting stem, subtended by marcescent bracts; the outer 
recurved florel sx orgens purplish, the inner ones pinkish 
white; flower odorless; eapsules 1/2 inch leng, trisenghler, 
deep shining crimson red; heard: "Ocos;" Todaya, July, 1909. 
11236. Rawolfie eeamarensis Merr. Smell tree in 
fertile humus covered soil of dense woods at 1500 feet, 
usually near @treams; wood soft, sappy white, odorless, 
with ea strong bitter teste; berk yellowish, smooth or thinly 
checked longitudinally; limbe sbove the middle, the brench- 
lets slender, and suberect; stem 16 feet high, 5 1/2 inches 
thiek; leaves ascendingly spreading, flat or only the tips 
recurved, the lower ones horizontely or deseending, darker 
green on the upper surfaces; the petioles green, filet on the 
upper side, bleeding with latex; infruteseence terminel, 
upon pendulous green 6 inches long stalks; fruits hanging, 
globose, less then 1/2 inch in @iemeter, pale green, with 
£ stony seeds; “Bitok-bitok;" Todaya, July, 1909. 
11256. Gelamus orneatus philippinensis Beee. n. var. 
Stout climber in dry woods at 1500 feet; leafy stem 3 to & 
inches thick; lesves alternetingly seattered, 1 foot spart: 
the hooked 20 foot long leafless rachis leaf opposed, flet= 
tened and 3/4 inch wide at the base and covered @long the lower 
side with » dense grayich brown “bloom”; petiole proper ascend- . 
ing, 2 feet long, nearly 2 inches wide sat the bese, similar 
in shape and indument elong the lower side as slready deseribed 
by the hooked recurved rechis, the bage herd end with e much 
thickened shoulder, smooth; shesth tightly clothing the stem, 
dark green end covered with the seme sort of bloom; beset 
with 1 inch long much flattened, spines which are divaricste 
and erranged suc in inparpean trenverse rows; infruteseence 
ascendingly reeurved, with 2 to 3 iruit elusters 2 to 5 feet _ 
apart, the green sheaths spinescent below, the rachie extended — 

