7924, Pinanga barnesii Beec, Slender 4 inch thick 
tree 8 meters high with smeoth solid gray berk and soft wood; 
rings 1/2 ineh broad, 1 to 3 inches apart; infrutescence pen- 
dulous, 2 feat long, rigidly 5 branched, orange red when 
mature, the upper 3 to 5 ifmature infrutescences yellow; fruits 
in irregular rows, dark read but turning dull black when mature; 
nut purplish, surrounded by a white fibrous matrix filled with 
@ mealy substance; leaves ascending, paler green beneath, 5 to 4 
feet (meters) long, leaflets swaller and more scattering toward 
the base; leaf sheath green dull purplish red; nn water 
courses of the woods at 800 meters, Iucban, May, 1907. 
7925, Miehocarpus fuseescens Bim, trees 9 meters high — 
with dull reddish hard wood and smooth mottled bark:limbs crooked, 
quite rigid; subcoriaceous leaves dull green, subpendulous, con- 
duplicate on the upper surfage; infruteseence terminal and sub- 
terminal, ereet or ascending, usually exeeeding the leaves; 
fruits pendulous, dehiseimg from the apex, deep crange red; the 
greenish seed surrounded by & pink colored pericarp; very common 
in the woods of the foothilis at 600 meters, Iueban, May, 1907. 
7926, $Polypodium accedens Bim. CGwreoping along the sides 
or under surface of fig limbs; rootsatocks slender greenish; 
fronds subpondulous, coriseeous and breaking with a » equally 
dull green on both sides; in woodlands at 800 meters. * 
imueban, May, 1907. 
498% Piper obovatibracteum 0, DC. n, Spe Iwining upon 
shrubs and small trees forming laxly branched bushes not far up 
from the ground; old stems flexible, barely the thickness of a 
little finger, brown, roughened with lenticels, leaves flat, 
soft membranous, much paler beneath; inflorescence usualiy from 
the terminal leaf exils, greenish, very slender; in woods at 
800 meters, Iueben, May, 1907. 
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7928. Medinjlla cephalophora Merr. Epiphytes upon small 
trees in damp woods at 800 meters; branches not numerous but 
rather long; wood quite hard, dull white; old bark thin and seel- 
ing in plates, that on the twigs smooth and yellowish; leaves 
very thick end leathery, nearly flat with ascending petioles, dull 
green above, paler beneath; inflorescence suberect, from the stems 
and branches, 1 to 4 inches long; rich pink flowers g¢lustered . 
along the 1/2 inch thick wo stalk, the brects soon withering 
after fruiting; overy greenis tay @alyx cup creamy white; 
corolla relate, deeply emarginate (7), light pink; mature fruits 
stect blue, with wany seed in a jelly like pulp. iucben, May, 
7929,  Sehefflere piperoides Hlm. Loosely tufted epiphy- 
tes upon small trees in damp woods at 800 meters; branches not 
numerous, slender, somewhat drooping; berk smooth yellowish green; 
wood of the twigs easily breaking; leaves quite thick, with re- 
curved tips, derk dull green above, paler beneath, upon ascending 
en pet oles; infruteseenee terminal upon 4 inches long red- 
ish stalks; fruits deep lemon color, élustered toward the ends of 
the peduncles, Lucban, May, 1907. 
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