"595. aAntidesma lucidum Merr. iexly branched 3 to 4 me<- 
ter high shrub in the forests ot 4,500 feet; bark smooth, brown; 
wood very tough; fruits shining, reddieh or dark wine colors 
fucban, May, 1907. 
7596. # Peychotria subsalpina Elm. Rrect laxly branched 
shrub at 5,000 feet of the rain forests; ola bark grayish, 
younger smooth and brown; wood tough; leaves coriaceous; mature 
fruits lemon yellow; flowers yellowish white, not Commons 
7597,  Tasienthus tashiroi Mats. <A low unidershrub of 
the vainy forests at 5,000 feets wood very tough; flowers white 
(nearly snow white); leaves membrancus; fruits 1/3 of an inch in 
diameter, blue, not spongy nor watery soeeeens quite common and 
mostly 1 meter high. Imeban, May, 190 . 
7598,  Urephyllum glebrum Jacks Tm forests at 5,500 feet, 
erect and tree like, 3 to 5 meters high; branches lax easily 
preaking; leaves membranous; fruits lemon or orange color when 
mature, subpendulous from the leaf axils, nearly Blobese; rare. 
luchen, May, 1907. 
7599, # Medinilla ramiflora Merrs A laxly branched epi- 
phytic shrub usualiy met on the trunks «nd main branches of large 
trees} wood hard end tough; park smooth and brown; leaves ¢eoria- 
eeous, bottle green above, paler beneath; fruit scarlet red, 
mostly elong the smaller branches, 1 + % clustered upon short 
peduncles. Imchan, Mayy 1907s 
7600. Medinille myrtiformis Triana Epiphytic numerous- 
ly branched sheubs on trunks ana lower branches of large trees in 
she forests at 4,500 feet; leaves coriaceous, paler beneath; 
fruits red to dork purple, upon slender pendulous peduncles from 
the Leaf axile or from the smaller branches; Gommons Tucban, 
May, 19076 
7602.  Gonchophylium eopelendi Sehls Much branched 
epiphytie herb, with very thiek fleshy leaves which are slightly 
paler beneath and with @ull edges; branches rigid; flowers suceulent, 
white and with purplish red tips; not Gcumon at 1,660 upon shrubs 
slong streams. . Lueben, May, 19076 
7602. Cphiarrhigaa inveluccete Elms Ry GPs Sueculent herbs 
forming demse mats on edzes of very demp stream banks of very 
leese gravelly ground; leaves thin, dexk green above, paler peneath, 
prominently retieulated ehove, gubtending bracts of infrutescence 
atrongly ineurved with the pele sulphur colored under surface 
exposed. Tucbsan, May, 1907s 
"604, Fiovs linesrifolia Bim free 8 meters high with al 
foot trunk, of deop revines and usually next to streams, quite rere, 
at 1,760 feet; figs npon slender & to 3 feet long and lax tuber~ 
eles from the stem only; younger figs erect, mature ones 1/2 to 3/4 
ineh in diemeter, oboveid, dull white when mature, spotted with 
brown lenticels; leaves thin, peler beneath. Iucban, May, 1907s 
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