6421... Sehefflera blancoi Merr, Branched from near the base, 
the branchlets many and very thick and rigid; leaflets deseendiag; 
wood very soft with an odor similar to water hemlock; younger bar 
gmoothish, gray; fruit heads usually along the twigs beneath the 
foliagey. globose, 145 inch in diameter; cap of the seeds dark red 
and falling off early; sceds persistent, surrounded by a yellow pulp, 
very strongly odorous; rim of seed receptacles persistent; "Abehal”, 
the chopped up leaves are put in water for fish poisons 
Beguio, March, 1907. 
B4226 Hypoestes floribunda Re Bee  Exeet herbs on limestone 
cliffs, branched above the middle, 1-3 feet high; flowers dark pink 
or Yed; quite common; Unum, Baguio, March, 1907, 
6422, FParabana dontdata Diels. Seandent shrubs amongst jun- 
gles of hardwood thickets of limestone cliffs; old bark dark brown; 
flowers greenish; fruits pale white; both pendulous from the stem; 
leaves coriaceous, shining on both sides but darker green on the 
upper side; "Pisok™2 Baguio, March, 1907, 
6424, fditsea lugonica Vill. Slender crest trees 5 meters high, 
wood shen pohicht figs hard; old bark brown; fruits apparently pale white | 
when @ollected; along creek in deep ravines at 4,500 feet; rare. 
Baguio, Benguet, Mar. 1907, 
B425.5 
Usually solitery upon loose mossy humus of limestones on 
cliffs near river at 4,500 feet; leaves usually dry when in flowering 
slate, subpersistent; stems curved just above the short succulent and 
green pseudobulb; flowers pure white, the @ lower lip with two green 
gienés at ite throat; Kankingai., Baguio, March, 1907. 
6426, Biumes lacere DC. Single or branched from the base, 
sparingly or numerously and divaricately branch herbs; stems, leaves 
and inflorescence very soft pubescent; flowers yellow, noding or 
subpendulous; in dry graveliy places along large streams at 4,500 feet. 
baguic, Ba Benguet, Mar. 1907. 
6427, Begonia manillensia DC, Mostly on cliffs of the ximesat 
imestone formation or in gravelly soil along river banks; terrestrial 
il quite frequently met; steus and veins beneath xmidu reddish 
paguio, March, 1907. 
| 6428. Melothria macronata (Blaos) Gogme Climbing herbs with 
of% grecn leaves which are prominently nerved beneath; berries when 
Ollected shining green; the upper portion ef the flowers yellowish, 
he lower part green; quite common in open thickets at 4,000 to 6,000 
eet; "Ditidid"; Baguio, Benguet, Mer. 1907. 
_ 8429, Impatiens maniliensis Weip. Herbs, mostly inhebiting the 
ine stone outeroppings at 5,000 feet; flowers pink, membranous and soon 
ithering; stems and branehes & very succulent, smooth, reddish, readily 
veaking; quite common and much % varying in stature, manner of branche 
ng and size of leaves which are darker green above, Baguio, Mar. 1907. 
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