8415. Polypodium elmeri Copel. On limbs of lerge trees, 
usually in the first massive branches of the pines on Santo 
Tomas at 7,000 feet; it only grows where there is a thick layer 
of pine needle humus covered over with a thick moses layer; leaves 
thick and extremely rigid; stems shining black; sporophylis 
emeéller. Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8414. Deutgia pulehra Vid. Shrubs, inhabiting the rocky 
outeroppings of open pine region from 4,000 to 7,000 feet dut 
most abundant at 4,750 feet; bark smooth, grayish white; wood 
not herd, easily breaking; leaves subcoriaceous; calyx ashy 
gray; corolla pure white; filaments also white; anthers yellow; 
fruite-very persistent; quite showy and pretty. "Amoging." 
Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8415. Viburnum odoratissimum Ker. Shrubs 4 meters high 
along water courses of the pine region at 4,600 feet; wood soft, 
white; leaves subcoriaceous, ascending; fruite red; flowers white; 
@1l branches of the infruteseence reddish; "Idog." Baguio, 
Benguet, Mareh, 1907. 
8416. Rose multiflorue Thunb. Spreading shrubs with 
recurved branches and branchlets or often decumbent, very 
prickly; about 5 meters high or in jungles climbing over thickets; 
wood hard and tough; bark brown smooth: petals pure white; 
anthers yellow; very fregrant; quite common in grass lands of 
the limestones at 4,750 feet; flowers frequently when o1é4 
pinkish. "Sabit." Baguio, Mareh, 1907. 
r 6417. Trema amboinensis Blm. Small erect tree 7 meters 
high along the river bottom at La Trinidad; branches slender, 
lex; bark emooth, greenish; wood very soft; leaves descending, 
semi gonduplicate on its upper surface; flowers yellowish deci- 
duous; "Petiden." Baguio, March, 1907. 
8418. Cassia divearicata Nees & Bim. Small ereet trees 
near bluffs slong the river at 4,500 feet, about 5 meters high, 
broadly branched toward the top; wood quite hard, solidly and 
Silvery grained; bark brown, thickly covered with emall lenti- 
cels; pods pendulous, leaves glaucous green beneath; inner 
layer of bark yellow; wood or bark slightly fetid; “Ataatab." 
Baguio, Mareh, 1907. 
8419. Sterculla obogata MOTT « Tree 8 meters high, in 
ulehes or deep ravines, wadely spreading; wood rather soft, 
hat in the twigs easily breaking; 014 bark quite thick, coarsely 
checked, ferruginous; flowere greenish yellow, the base of the 
petals bright red; rare; leaves less green beneath, rather rough 
and very prominently veined beneath. Baguio, Benguet, March, 1908. 
8420. Sabia philippinengis ¢. B. Rob. A seandent sprawling 
shrub, with hard tough wood, upon limestone cliffs along rivers 
at 4,500 feet; bark smooth, greenish when young, brown when o14; ~ 
flowers small, greenish yellowg anthers lightz yellow; "Udok." 
Baguio, Mareh, 1907. ; 

