12310. Ardisie olisantha Flms Me SP. Very slender 
tvece, in dry humus covered reddish soil of a forested 
ridge at 1509 feat of mount Guiting; stem terete, 5 inches 
thiek, 20 feet high, branche’ towera the top only; branches 
relatively short, divericate, sparingly but lexly rebranched, 
erooked ox more or less aurved, much thickenet at the base; 
wood odorless end testeless, whitish exoept the brown central 
portion, sett; bark dull brown, emocthich; leeves horisontel, 
sorinceous, paler green beneath; infrutescence terminal, drooping, 
the stelks pale green, the obovoidly globose fruits hark green, 
3/8 inch seross, "Betis"; Megnilenes, April, 1910. 
12311.  Hedyotis albuyenensis Elm. ns ap. Frect 
undershrub in clayey 8641 of a forested ridge at 1500 feet 
of mouit Guiting; stem 5 to 9 feet high, 1 ineh thick, 
uabrenched except the twigs which again sre unbranched or 
sparingly #60, more or less nodulose; woo? soft, greenish 
white, without oder or taste, with a lerge pith; park 
euceth, ereenish brown; twige divericate, green; Leaves 
coriaceous, peler green beneeth, fiat but tips ueuelly recurved, 
diverse in size; infloreseence spreeding, greenish except 
the ereamy white flowers which ere odorless; *"Libotre"; 
Magellenes, April, 1910+ 
L24125 Leucoebryum Powringil Mett. On nearly 
decayed loge helf burkied in humus covered soil of a foreated 
ridge at 2000 foet of mount Suiting; «spreading and forming 
dense felt-like messes; feliage soft, pele green; sepsules 
ashy pray, ond clustered along the upper side of the foliage 
bearing branchlets; "Cede"; Megallanee, April, 1910. 
12318. Piper evatibacenn ©, DG. An erect undershrub 
in ved soll of a forested ridge at 2000 feet ef mount Guiting; 
stem terete, nodulose, 1/2 inch thick, terete, 3 to 6 feet 
high, sparingly brenched towerd the top, yigid; wood greenish, 
with @ lexge plteh, cdorlessa and tastelers; branchlets green, 
lex, Giverientely spreading; leeves horizontel, much paler 
green beneath, eoriteeous; spikes suberect, terete, Flexible, 
upon green Btalie, orange rec or the younger portion more 
yellow: "“Buyo-hnayo.” Megellenes, April, 19106 
12214,  heselia membranifolie (Bertl.) Hlm, “<n 
underahrub of & forested ridge et BCOO feet of mount Guiting; 
stem 3 to 6 foet high, 1/2 ineh thiek, speringly branches 
from below the middle; wood rigid; gellowish white, quite 
brittle, without tasts or offers #ranches fea, rigid, orocketly 
rebranched; hark dull brown, smooth; leaves horisontel, 
flat, queh darker green Shove, Spex more or jess reourvec, thinly 
sopiaceous; buds flowers and fruits erect and flesh red, the 
later are elongeted globose, the sett short stalks are of the 
sdne Golor; Magellenes, April, 1910. 

