8483. Plectronia nitis (Bartl.) Him. Tree like, 4 meters 
high; wood soft, whitish; branches divaricate, opposite and alter- 
nately disposed; younger bark sm@oth and green; old bark brown, 
finely cracked; leaves shining, subcorisceous, equally green 
on both sides; fruits slightly ascending, glaucous green, wrinkled; 
in Bued River eafiyon. Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
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8484. Pterospermum obliguum Bleo. Tree, 6 meters high; 
wood closely grained heavy end hard; bark brown finely cheeked 
longitudinally; branches spreading, half drooping when weighted. 
down by the heavy fruits, slender; leaves conspicuously rufous 
yellow beneath; bude flowers and seeds erect, clustered in the 
axils toward the ends of the twigs; petals white, falling before 
the leathery calyx; in esafiyon of Bued River; "Batuang.” Baguio, 
Benguet, March, 1907. 
8485. Helicteres hersutea Laur. Low lax shrubs with 
soft wood and brown nearly smooth bark; leaves descending; dark 
pink flowers and capsules erect; in Bued River; “alinu;" bark 
used in braiding rope. Baguio, Merch, 1907. 
8487. Fieus macropoda Mig. A 10 meter high tree, with 
few large spreading branches from the middle; ultimate branchlets 
comparatively short, thin, and usually erect or ascending; wood 
quite hard; berk of the stem and branches hard smooth, mottled, 
conspicuously greyish white; sap watery white; leaves few toward 
the tips of the branchlets, erect, velvety on both sides, flexible, 
the upper dark green surface spoon-shaped, leaving the whitish | 
pubescent lower surface rounded and much exposed; figs (immeture) 
ascending, in pairs from the axils of fallen leaves, turning to a 
pinkish red wren mature; on bluff of the Bued River eafiyon. 
Baguio, Mareh, 1907. 
6488. Pipturus asper Tedd. Shrubs 3 meters high on steep 
dry grevelly slides of the Bued River eafiyon; branched from near 
the base, ultimate branches lex; wood soft with brown bark covered 
with raised lighter brow lenticels; leaves dark green above, 
glaucous beneath, ventrally eonduplieate; fleshy berries white, 
with seeds brown; stigmas or styles whitish. Baguio, March, 1907. 
=> 9489. Pipturus asper Wedd. Similar in habitat as the 
preceding except that the crovn of the bush is more flat topped, 
larger leaves which are usually flat and lighter green on the 
upper surface, and with smaller inflorescence and infrutescences; 
the two species grow together in the same places and can readily 
be distinguished in the field by a close observer; “Damayan." 
Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8490. Hypoestes cumingiana Nees. Loosely tufted from. 
perennial roots, in rock erevices of bluffs along the Bued River; 
stems green, persistent; flowers erect, pink, the lower lip 
marked with dark purple below the middle and. mainly in the central 
portion; leaves deciduous. Beguio, March, 1907. 
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