7446, Pieus apiocarpa Mig. Shrabe subseandent, 4 meters 
high or sometimes tree like, not scandent; bark light gray, 
smooth; wood tough and hard; figs ueuslly solitary in leaf axils, 
chiefly wpon 1/2 inch long recurved peduncles, broadly ellipsoid 
1 1/2 inch long or longer; branches and leaves very rigid; rare. 
Lueban, May, 1906. 
7446. frichosporum. A elimbing shrub of the foothill 
thickets; leaves stiff and sucenlent, lucid; flowers scarlet 
esos reeurved from the leaf axile; not common. Lueban, May, 
1906. 
7447. Ficus quereifolia humilis (Roxb.) King. krect rather 
stiff shrobs, 2 to 3 meters high, in copses, rare; leaves dry 
and harsh, rigid; bark light gray; wood fine grained, hard; figs 
Pe S$ in leaf axils, globose, hard, dsrk purple. Lueban, May, 
906 « A 
7448. Astronia luebanengis Slim. nm. sp. Widely spreading 
shrubs of wooded ravines at 750 meters; flowere yellowieh white. 
Lucban, May, 1906. 
7449. Pinanga elmerii Beec. Greceful and slender tree 
3 to & meters high, in the forests at 1,000 meters; infrutes- 
genee below the leafy top; fruits hard, of a rieh dark red. 
Lueban, May, 1906. 
7450. Astronia ealyeina Vid. Laxly branched shrub 
of the woods at 750 meters; bark qmooth grayieh or often yellowish 
white; fruit dry; common. Lucben, May, 1906. 
7461. Fieus ecandatifolia Yarb. An undershrub of the hill 
forests at 700 meters; bark yellowish gray, smooth; wood solid 
grained; leaves coriseejous; figs subpendulous upon slender 
peduncles, yellowieh red, dry and hard, 1 to $ in the leaf axils 
5 millimeters in dismeter. Lucban, May, 1907. 
W452. FPieus esaudatifolis Yarb. Nuch or widely branched 
shrubs of the woods in the foothills at 700 meters; leaves 
comparatively few and spreading, coriaceous long bark yellowich;. 
wood hard; fige upon slender recurved peduncles, yellowish red, 
1 to 8 in leaf exile, 6 millimeters in diameter. Lucben, May, 
1907. 
74.53. Melsetoma penicillatum faud. Laxly branched shrabs 
% meters high, every_where in sopses at 7RO meters; flowers 
showy pink. Lueban, Mey, 1906. 
7454. Fieus benguetense Merr. Small erect trees or 
often more or less shrubby; fige green, subsessile, 1 to 2 in 
leaf axils, spotted with lenticels, somewhat irregular in outline, 
Lucban, May, 1906. 

