
7579. Pandanus utilissimus Glm. ne sp. rect shrub 
like tree, 4 meters high, im emell groups or forested in swampy 
ground; prop roots short; branches short thick and few; leaves 
rigid but not watery; synearpia solitary, heavy, solid, upon 2 
meter long hanging peduncle, oblong ovoid, 8 inches in diameter 
by £ feet long, somewhat glencous green; mature drupes felling 
in eireles from apex to base, yellowieh red, covered with a 
semiviseid slime, possessing ® sweet plescant odor; rather common 
in ravines an4 swampy places of the open hill country from 300 
to 700 meterr; the leaves sre extensively used for weaving pur- 
poses, they are made plieble by a machine call Tlohan by the 
natives;drupes & inehes, long, pointed. Lucban, May, 1906. 
7380. Freycinetia monoecephelsa Kim. he aps Woody much 
branched climber, in very damp and deeply shaded ravines of the 
forests at 900 meters; branchlets slender, drooping; leaves 
thin, numerous, grass like; heads terminal, solitary; quite rare. 
Lucban, May, 1906. 
TOG1. Freycinetia confusa Elm. Very common in the forested 
region from 704 to 1,600 meters, climbing, freely branched; 
eyncarpia ternately pedumeulate, yellowish red when mature, 
globose, quite solid. Lucben, May, 1906. 
Cogan. PRper villilimbum ¢. DC. mn. sp.  Seandent in 
forests at 750 meters; branches slender, forming mata; fruits 
yellowish; rere. Ltieban, May, 1906. 
Bases. Piper luebanense Ce. DO. Me Bp. A rigid sparingly 
branched tree climber, in the foreste et 1,200 meters; leaves 
rigid; fruite dark ref, hard, crooked, 1 to 3 inehes long rare. 
Lucban, May, 1906. : 
Avgea4. Piper minietum (CG) C. DC. n. form, A climber, 
numerously and rigidly branche’, forming dense bushes; leaves 
eoriaceous, smooth; fruits pendulous, dull red, hard, Luchban, 
May, 1907. 
D785. Piper ovatibsaccum G. DO. Humeroucly and Linely 
branched seandent shrub, with yellowich white bark; comes dull 
red; in the woods at 800 meters. Lueban, May, 1906. 
7566. Vernonia lenticellata flm. A wiry seandent shrub, 
with hard wood; leaves subcoriaceous; flowers pink or purplish; 
yare in the shrubby woods et 750 meters. Lueban, May, 1996. 
7387. Blumea lacera (Burm.) DO. Zuberect or decumbent 
herds, confined to rock ledges slong etreame of the woods at 
1,500 meters; flowers rich yellow. Lueban, May, 1906. 

