11998. Piper varibracterwa C. Ds Me Bp. s$eandent 
upon trees and overtepping dense thickets along the seacoast 
ef moist Sandy Boi]; Sten 1 inch thiek, terete, Fiexible, 
eovered with grayiah brown smooth, comparstively thick 
bark, numerowsly rebronched, obscurely nodulose; wooed dull 
white, fibvous, soft; branchlets mumerous, green, forming 
dense well interlaced masepes which hang down in large 
“streamers" from the limbs of trees; leaves descending, 
leathery, Somewhat recurved and with twisted sides, very 
@hiding and mm deep green on the upper Side, duller end 
paler bevesth,; fraite pendulous, leaf opposed, 1/2 to 3/4 
inch long, @ylindric or slightly thieker toward the base, 
orig er ovenge red; "Manica«ta-poi.”  Todsya, Qeteber, 
LOOD. 
11999, Vitex neguniio linn, Shrubby tree 20 feet 
high, in woods of sandy Soi] along the coast, stem 6 inches 
thick, freely rebrunched from near the bese; wood soft, 
yellowish except the murky brown center, oderless and 
tasteless; bark smooth, brown; branches numerous, 18x; 
twigs suberect; leaves kx mostly horisentel; soft menbrencue, 
deep green above, greyish white beneath, neerly flat; 
inflorescence ereet, the pale blue irreguier Tilewers 
odorless, "Sagerai.”  Toduya, Cetober, 1909s 
12000.  Pyenerrhene celebics (Roeri.) Diels. A tough 
ana viaid tree climber in woods near the sea-ooest in mat 
helg sandy soil; stew 1 or & inches thick, erookedly rebranched, 
with whitish wood which contains orange red coneentric rings; 
bark aucethieh, arayieh brown; infruteseence iaterel, upon 
% to & ineghes lena stalks; fruite ehining, dark green, 
witieately light yellow, 1/2 inch in diameter, containing 
6 Small flattened eirevier seed in the cent@y of & shallow 
pulp; leaves charvaceous; descending, dark green and shiny 
en the upper conduplieste surface, paler green beneath; 
“Ragate" Yodaya, Gotober, 1909-6 
L2001. Melletus playfairii Hemel. Gnarly tree 25 
feet high, with a few stems arising from the ground, branched 
all along especially toward the top; bark greyish, mettled, 
scaling in thin plates; wood more or leas buriy, whitish; 
leaves descentingy eubnembranous, foléed upon tae upper 
aveen surface, greyish green beneath, diverse in #i2ze; 
infloreseenée wm erect, yellowish green; "Brique." podaya, 
ootober, 190%. 

