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A glabrous tree 5 to 6 m high. Branches dark-reddish-brown, terete, 
slender, the bud-scales very slightly pubescent. Leaves broadly elliptic- 
ovate, coriaceous, shining, of the same color on both surfaces or paler 
beneath, 3 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 4 em wide, the base acute, the apex abruptly 
and shortly acuminate, or the acumen subcaudate and nearly 1 em long; 
nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, not very prominent, scarcely 
anastomosing, the secondary ones indistinct, the ultimate veinlets forming 
a very dense, subfoveolate reticulation ; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers 
unknown, the inflorescence from the upper axils, in fruit 3 to 5 em long. 
Fruits globose or depressed-globose, black, about 8 mm in diameter, but 
one or two on each infrutescence, the calyx-segments deciduous, a disk-like 
portion remaining at the base of the fruit. : 
In the mossy forest, altitude about 2,300 m, OC. M. Z. 18054, 18080 (type). 
Locally known as maschip. 
This species is well distinguished by its relatively broad leaves; it may ulti- 
mately have to be referred to Persea, as the calyx is not persistent. It seems, 
however, to have the other characters of Machilus, and is accordingly here placed 
in that genus. 
CRUCIFERA. 
CARDAMINE Linn. 
1. C. regeliana Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1865) 73. 
In stream depressions, pine region, altitude about 1,300 m, C. M. Z. 16090. 
Eastern Asia and Japan, south to the Malay Archipelago; in the Philippines 
confined to the Benguet-Lepanto region. 
NASTURTIUM R. Br. 
1. N. indicum DC. Syst. Veg. 2 (1821) 199, Prodr. 1 (1824) 139. 
Altitude not given, probably in the pine region, CO. M. Z. 16089. 7 
Widely distributed in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes; India 
to Japan and Malaya. 
NEPENTHACE. 
NEPENTHES Linn. 
1. N. alata Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 805. 
In the pine region on open slopes, altitude about 1,400 m, 0. M. Z. 18188, locally 
known as cacalum. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines at medium and higher altitudes; endemic. 
DROSERACEZ. 
DROSERA Linn. 
1. D. peltata Sm. in Willd. Sp. Pl. 1 (1797) 1546. : 
Grassy slopes in the pine region, below 1,800 m altitude, Merrill 6535. 
Widely distributed in the Benguet-Lepanto region; India to China and Japan, 
through Malaya to Australia and Tasmania. 
