Codiocarpus merrittii (Merr.) R.A.Howard

1£84£. Stomonuros merrittii Kart» Small ereot trae
en a steep gravelly wooded slopetx of a stream depression at
1750 fast; stem 4 inodes thick, sadterete, £0 feet high, %,
branched from the middle; wood moderately soft, dingy white
throughout, odorless, slightly hitter: hark smooth, gray, %
whitish except the epidermis; branched divsrloaAs, very
slander, forming an elongatad crown, sparingly rebranched,^reen,
loaves ooriaoeoae, sabpendsnt, alternatingly dong tbs
branches wary shining toe sen shore, very mash — -	A-2
paler beneath, shallowly fbldad apon the appor ildo, tipa
reoarved, margins wavy; infratesoenoe scattered along the
branches apon salphar yellow branches, S to 6 Insteos long, fas
few brsnohed; seeds hanging, or nearly so; the greener apper
smooth side with s oonosvooonvex side, ti» light salphar
ragose side with oat a seed , nearly,^Mr inoh lape. .Pnerto
Princess, March, 1911.	ELMElFS	FIELD	NOTES
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS.
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
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PUERTO PR INCESA (MT. PULGAR), PROVINCE OF PALAWAN
ISLA NO OF PALAWAN, MARCH, 1911
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