7436. Sparsely branched, 
2 to 3 feet high, suffratescent, in shrubberies amongst other 
eoarse herbea at 700 meters; flowers snow white, in the lower leaf 
axils or apon the stem; rare. Lucben, May, 1906. 
74366 Piper longivaginans ¢. IX. Low lax 1 meter high 
ghraub in damp ravines of dense foreste at 1,000 meters; infruc- 
tescencemgs yellowien, beginning to flower st the apex, gradually 
reeurving at the place of flowering; rare. Lueban, May, 1906. 
7437. Fieus propingue Merr. 
7457. Ficus propingua Merr. free climber, observed on 
trees 25 meters high; branches very tough, numerously branched, 
forming dense tangled masses; wood not hard; leaves corflaceous 
but not rigid; fige golden yellow, in clueters of 1 to & in the 
lesf axils or in the axile of their sears. Lucban, May, 1906. 
74.38. Adinendra eoriscea Slmah. sp. 4 tall tree climber, 
ultimately much branched and with many subcoriaceous shining 
green leaves; flowers subpendulous, yellow, early falling; in 
foreats at 900 metere, quite rare. Lucban, May, 1906. 
7439. <Astronia meyer& Merr. Spreading shrubs or small 
trees in the woode of steep ravines at 700 meters; flowers 
dark purplieh red, rather small and euceulent, falling early; 
eommon, and would eppear pretty in eultivation. Lucban, May, 
1906. 
7440.  Astronia williemeii Merr. Spreading shrubs 3 
meters high of the woodlands in ravines at 750 meters; small 
flowere dirty white or yellowish. iucban, Mey, 1906. 
7441. Nepenthes ventricosa Bleo. A rigid suffratescent 
shrub climbing trees at 1,000 meters; its wood rather hard and 
very tough; flowers dark brown; leaves thick, atiff; upper half 
of inside of pitener dark purple or brownish; rare. Lueban, 
May, 1906. 
7442. Laportes lugonensis VYarb. Spreading tree 5 meters 
high; bark grayish white; wood soft and white; leaves membranous; 
nearly glabrous, inflicting a most horrible stinging iteh (the 
worst I ever encountered in the Philippines), flowers subterminal, 
gubpendulous, pale white; rare in ravines at 850 meters. Lueben, 
May, 1906. 
7443. Derrie lisnoides flm.e Me Sp. Tall tree climber 
in the forests at 1,000 meters; flowers of short duration, 
early falling, somewhat fleshy, white with a little pink, much 
vieited by Hymenopterous flying insects; rare; leavee mostly young. 
Lueban, May, 1906. 

