beneath the epidermis; sap-wood whitish, the greater central 
portion light yellow, odorless, bitter, soft; branchlets 
divaricate, spsringly rebranched, the spices] portion green; 
leaves mostly horizontal, corisceous, folded upon the upper 
shining green surface, paler and duller beneath; inflorescence 
leaf cpposed, solidly cone~shsped, upon terete 2 inches long 
peduncles; yellowish green, except the corolla; corolla tube 
on the outside green, the segments purplish on the outside, 
and white on the inner; fruitine cone erect, 1 to 3 inches 
Long, turning pale white when mature; "Sicari¢;* Todays, 
September, 1909. ' 
11769, Slaeocearpue fusicarpus Tim. n. sp. Tree 25 
feet high with a feot thick stem on steep wooded nearly 
precivitous slopes slong the Sibulan river at 3000 feet; 
wood white, odorless, rather soft; berk grayish white, mottled, 
smoothieh or the brown branchlets lentiselled; branches 
numerous, toward the top mainly, the ultimate onee slender 
and somewhat drooping; leaves descendingly reeurved, shining 
deep green above, much Lighter benesth, margins wavy, thinly 
coriaceous; fruite ix upon greenish brown ascending stalks, 
1 inch long, subpyriform, irregularly terete, green, hard, 
eontaining a comparatively small sharply pointed stony seed; 
"“Sarintok;”  ‘Todaya, September, 1909. 
11770. Cyathea ocontaminans (Wall.) Copel. Tree-fern 
30 feet high with a 7 inch thick stem, at 3000 feet along 
the Gibulen river amongst bowlders; leaf sears ellipsoid, 
quite prominent; fronds many, ascendingly recurved, 10 to 
15 feet long; stipe 3 to 5 feet long, at least 2 imwhes thick 
at the base, subterete, glauceseent green or turning purplish, 
denegely beset with sharp brown spiner, at the base densely 
eovered with soft arayish white sesles; pinnse heavy, dull 
green above, glaucescent so beneath, alee recurved; pinules 
similarly recurved; "Notong;" Todays, September, 1909, 
11771. Entodon longidens sroth. On smooth surfaced 
bowldere lying in or near the Sibulan river at 3000 feet; 
@letse and erect capsules bright gcreen; steme fine, branched, 
forming dense masses; foliage descending, delicate, bright 
green; “Lomot;* Todaya, September, 1909, 
11772. Hibiseus tiliaeceue lL. Gnarly appearing trees 
in rich soil of open places at 3000 feet; stem 20 feet high, 
8 inches thick, branched from below the middle; the branche 
lets widely spreading; wood soft, white, odorless and tarte- 
less; Bark gray and checked loncitudinally, brown and 
smooth on the branchlets or. branches, easily stripping; twigs 
ascending, greenish: blades descending, corisceous, dull 
green on the upper side, whitish beneath; flowers descending, 
deciduous, odorless; involuere dull purple brown; ealyx 
greenish purplish brown; petals light yellow when young, 
with dark brown purplish blotches at the base on the inner 
eide; stamens and its tube yellow; atigma dark purple; fruit 
erect, yellowish brown; The bark is used by the Sogobos 
for making ropes; “Loago;" Todaya, September, 1909, 

