7625, Calamus ornatus philippinensis Beec, Declining 
shrubs with stems about 4 inches high; the rich green leaves 
opposed by a long spinescent lash, the midrib of the leaves 
not extended; midrib of inflorescence extended; into a spiny 
lash: flowers yellow and succulent; in woods at 2000 feet; 
Lucban, liay, 1907, 
7626 a, Piper crassinodum C, DG. n, sp. Lax shrubs 
about 1 meter high, not scandent; stems soft with lerge nodes; 
leaves subcorisceous, green above, paler benesth; fruit erect, 
solid, suberect, red; locsl but forming copses in damp forests 
at 3,500 feet. Lucban, Mey, 1907, 
7627, Piper csninum latibrecteum ©. DO. n, var, A 
lex and numeYously branched shrub climbing smslli trees in 
forests at 3,500 feet; stems very soft and rather flexible 
but easily breaking at the nodes; infrutescence pendulous, 
deep red when fully mature; rare, Lucban, May, 1907, 
7628, Polypodium Mecrophyllum (Blm.) Reinw. JEpiphytic, 
the rootstocks tightly cleaving to stems of shrubs and trunks 
of trees in damp woods of cafiyons at 3,500 feet; lesves sub- 
membranous, paler green beneath; not common, Lucban, Mey, 1907, 
7629, Leptochilue Zollingeri (Kze,) Tee. In gmall 
tufts but lightly cleaving to bowlders of damp forests at 
3,000 feet; leaves leathery, rich dark green above, paler 
beneath; spores brown or nearly black when fully mature; 
not common, Lucban, May, 1907, 
7630. Medinillsa disparifolia ©, b. Rob. Wany branched 
shrubs 2 to 3 meters high, the branches much recurved making 
the shrub broader than high, xem bark rough, yellowish; wood 
herd and tough; pendulous inflorescence 3 inches long, quite 
rigid; flowers pinkish; immature fruits red, suberect; leaves 
paler benesth, with broad stipules, Lucban, May, 1907. 
7632, Ficus lucbsanensis #1m,. Shrub in wooded ravines 
at 700 meters, about 4 meters high; branches widely spreading 
from the middle; wood whitish, soft; bark brown, but yellowish 
on the branchlets, smooth; leaves leathery, greatly varying 
in size, spreading, nearly flat, dull green above, lighter 
beneath; figs 1 to 3 clustered from the leaf axils, light 
green with minute pale white lenticels, Luecban, May, 1907. 
7634, Lagianthus obliquinervis Merr. Lucben, Hay, 1907, 
7636 9, Habeneria luzonensis Ames n, Sp. Lucban, liay, 
1907, 
7637, Medinille cordstsa Merr. Crookedly branched 
shrubs 3 meters high; wood soft, dull white; bark yellowish 
gray, roughened by lerge irregular lenticels; also checked; 
leaves leathery, very dark dull green above, much paler and 
shining beneath; inflorescence pendulous, succulent; flowers 
light pink, subtended by pinkish white bracts; common in 
dense woods at 1,800 meters. Lucban, May, 1907. 
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