7426. Carruthersia pilosa F. Vil. Seandent much 
branched ehrabe, ehiefly inhsbigting the eopsers bordering open 
meadows at 700 meters or below; “leaves shining and ecoriscebus; 
flowers white? sweetly fragrant, sap milky. Luoban, Mey, 1906. 
7427. Fieus pisifera Wall. A 3 meter high shrub, 
laxly branched; wood hard; bark yellowieh; leaves harsh and dry; 
fige herd, yellowish red, the size of a cranberry; an undershrubd 
of wooded ravines at 750 meters. Lueban, May, 1906. 
7428. Ficus linearifolis tlm. n. sp. greet 20 meter 
high tree, branched from below the middle; ultimate branches 
very numerous and finely branched; leaves soft, seatterce<; figs 
about the size of F. barnesii, emooth and white or with a few 
lenticels, upon slenderly branched hatiging tubercles of the stem 
only. Lugban, May, 1906. 
1429 Pentaphragma philippinense Merr. Succulent suffra- 
tescent shrubs 1 to 3 feet high, ususlly overhanging cliffe and 
other stéep embankments of deep shaded ravines; flowers snow 
white, subpendulons; searcely branched, mostly reclining; at 
660 meters. Lucban, May, 1906. 
7430. Begonia contracte Yard. Yecumbent herbs 1 to 3 
feet long, succulent, on damp moss covered stream banks of deeply 
shaded ravines; flowers white, occasionally pinkish; at 750 
metere. iLucban, May, 1906. 
7431. Medinilla myrientha Merr. Woody much branched, 
and a powerful olimber; leaves shining, coriaceous; inflores- 
eence hanging, bractless, light pink; very common in woods of 
shrubs and trees at 1,506 meters. iLucban, May, 1906. 
7432. Ficus latsoni Blm. Large erect tree 20 meters 
high, ite tronk 2 feet in diameter berk brownish, freely flowing 
with milky sap which soon coagulates, younger bark ferruginous; 
fige in small elusterc, shining, on the branches below the stem, 
yellow, Lueban,; May, 1906. 
7433. # Gomphostemma lusgonense Slm. mn. Sp. Branched 
herbe 1 meter high in damp ground of shaded ravines at 600 meters; 
stem quadrangular: leaves thin opposite and alternating; flowers 
white, usually in the o14 leaf &xils. iLueban, May, 1906. 
V4S4. Medinilla ternifelia Trianns. A fine laxly branched 
climbing shrub in the woods at 800 meters, rare; infloreseence 
soft, pendulous, usually terminal; flowere delieste, of a pleasing 
pink color. Lueban, May, 1906. 
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