11269. Caetanopsis javanica A. DC, Large spreading 
tree 50 or more feet high with a 3 foot thick stem, in dense 
forests at 2750 feet; branches sbove the middle, crookedly 
‘pebranched; leaves chartaceous, mostly horizontally spread- 
dng with recurved tips, #hallowly cenduplicate on the rich 
green upper side, copper yellowieh beneath, lucid above; 
bark quite rough, yellowish; wood hard, brown except the 
whitish eapwood, odorless with a slight bitter taste; fruite 
upon 6 to 10 inehes long spikes sriging from the ends of 
the tvigs, usually only 2 few from the sam¢ place; nuts 
spingseent, yellowish green, containing 3 seeds; "“Cahau." 
Todays, August, 1909. 
11270, Erycibe pararan “lm, a. sp. A tree climber 
in dry forests slong » fertile bench at 2750 feet; stem 1 1/2 
inechee thick terete, flexible, terete, circling about ite 
host, branched at the top; branches widely spreading, the 
slender free ends drooping; wood soft, yellowish, without 
odor or taste; bark yellowish gray on the stems and minutely 
avacked, emooth and brown on the branches; leaves strongly 
econduplicate on the upper deeper green surface; young infru- 
tescence erect from the leaf axile, 1 to 6 inches long, the 
etalke ferruginous brown; fruite light green, smooth, 
ellipeoid; “Pararan;" Todays, August, 1909. 
11271. Ardisia clementis Tim. n. sp. Slender tree 
$0 feet high with an 8 inch thick stem, in foreste at S000 
- feet; wood odorless and tastelees, rather soft, with cone 
spicuous radial lines, white or with » reddish tinge: bark 
smooth, yellowish brown mottled; branches relatively short, | 
forming an elongated crown; leaves coriaceous slightly 
recurved and conduplicate on the upper dark green surface, 
psler beneath, divariecately spreading; inflorescence erect, 
rigid, heavy, red except the yellow anthers and whitish 
style: flowers upon recurved pedicells, odorless; "Catigpo- 
tigpo;” Todays, Auguet, 1909, 
2272. Cyclea fortaen Diels n. sp. Seandent upon 
trees of a forested humid beneh at 2750 feet; stem terete, 
the thickness of an ordinary lead pencil, grayieh green 
mottled, flexible; branches few but widely reaching, inclined 
to twine, dull green; leaves upon green suberect green petioles | 
which are enlarged at both ends and curvingly twisted at 
the base; blades descending, fiat with recurved tips, deep 
green above and subluecid, glaucescent beneath, thinly corise 
ceous; infrutescence from 1 to 2 feet long, the peduncle 
proper 6 inches long, otherwise panieulately branched, 911 
the stalke dirty green; the fruite flattish, 1/3 inch wide, 
white and shining; "Bsalogo;" Todays, August, 1909. 
11273, Cyrtandra membranifolisa Him. n. sp. Lax 
ee shrub 3 to 6 feet high, in fertile moist humus 
covered eoil of gentle forested slopes at 27650 feet; steme 
several from the same cluster, 1/2 inoh thick, reclingng 
and only sparingly branched, the terminal portion erect; 
wood easily breaking, greenish: bark smooth, yellowish; 
leaves horizontal or curvingly descending; soft and membranous 
in téxture, paler green beneath; flowers 1 ér 2 in the axils, 
the bracts and ealyx green, the snowewhite corolla ssecend- 

