11312, Sugenie areustinervia Merr, Tree 45 feet 
high with a 11/2 foot thick etem, in dense forests at 
4000 feet, north of the baruring river; stem terete; wood 
rather hard, whitish, odorless and tasteless; kark yelliow- 
ish brown, emoothish; main branches arising from the middle, 
ascending, ultimately numerously branched; twige terete, 
green, erect, Pather short; crown conical, dense; leaves 
ascending, recurved toward the apex, folded upon the upper 
much deeper and shining green surface, coriaceous; infrutes- 
cence strictly erect, 211 the stalks dark green as is also 
the calyx; “Maglegsam-bocolod;" Todaya, August, 1909, 
42313. Fandanue apoensis Wert. n. sp. Solitary 
trees scattered in damp feretile humus covered soil of 
dense woods at 4000 feet south of the Sibulean river: stem 
30 feet high or higher, 7 inches thick, the basal 5 to 7 
feet divided into prop-roots 3 inches thick, terete, yellow« 
ish, smooth, except for the short conical svines, branched 
above; the seversl branches secendine, anbranched, 3 to 5 
inches thick, the lower or longer ones 12 feet long; leavers 
crowded at the ends, in dense twisting rows, the lower dry 
pertisting ones hanging, the upper ones ageending, the apical 
portion deflexed, deeply grooved on the upper slightly darker 
green surface, kwkk keel beneath more or lees serrate throagh- 
cut, margins sherply serrate toward the base; infrutese ence 
composed of 3 to 5 syncarpia clustered about the stem or 
rather branch immediately beneath the green foliage and more 
or less concealed by the old hanging foliage; diwaricate 
and entirely covered over by aumerous marcescent sheaths; 
peduncle = few inches long only, sleo covered with sheaths; 
syncarpium about 6 inches leng, ovoid in shape, composed 
of & twisting rows of capitulae or amall flattened heads 
closely set together and graduelly reduced towafd the apex 
(those at the wery bese also reduced) averaging about 6 
tno in a row; drupes pale salmonered; stigmas rather sharp 
and eubspinescent; “Barsia;"” Todsya, August, 1909, 
121314. Ficus retusa Linn. A @trangling epiphyte 
arising fiom the uppermost limbs of Castanopsia number 
11315 collected in humid forests at 4000 feet, south of 
the Sibulan river; branches widely spreading, cuite rigid; 
the ultimate ones numerous, erect or nearly so, flexible; 
wood whitish, without odor or taste; rather tough; bark 
smooth, grayish white mottled; leaves rigidly coriaceone, 
ascending, deep dull green on the upper nearly fiat surface, 
much lighter or yellowish green beneath; figs in pairs, 
from the leaf axils; calyx yellowish green: fruits less 
than 1/2 inch long, obovoidby ellipsoid, heard, and dull 
red; "“Marobutam;" Todays, August, 1909, 
11315. Castanopsis sumatrana A, DS, Tall tree 60 
or more feet high, in damp humid forests at 4000 feet, south 
of the Sibulen river; stem 4 1/2 feet thick, branched above 
the middle; the branches widely spreading, rather crookedly 
rebranched; the twigs smooth, brown, rather bendable, sub-« 
erect; wood hard, dull brown toward the center, with a 
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